Eilish McColgan and Jake Wightman have been confirmed as two of 9 Scots in Staff GB’s athletics squad for the Paris Olympics.
Wightman, 29, has been given a discretionary choose for the 800m after sitting out the British trials due to a calf harm.
The 2022 world champion over 1500m missed out in his favoured occasion, with fellow Scots – present world champion Josh Kerr and new British champion Neil Gourley – taking two of the three accessible locations.
McColgan has been chosen to run the ten,000m choice regardless of a season troubled by harm.
The 33-year-old, who’s the British document holder, gained 10,000m gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games and adopted that with European silver.
It is going to be a fourth Olympics for McColgan, who can be joined over the identical distance by compatriot Megan Keith.
“I’ve at all times prided myself in having an excellent 800m – it’s in all probability my favorite of the 2 as a result of I don’t race it as a lot and there’s not as a lot strain maybe,” Wightman stated.
“It’s good I’m really going to a championships with the prospect to point out what I can do over 800m with a full build-up in direction of that, as a result of usually I’m focussing on 1500m work whereas now I can prepare for the shorter distance.
“I need to show I’m pretty much as good at that occasion as I’ve been at 1500m, and in a championship when you’ve got to run three 800m in 4 days, when you have acquired a bit extra endurance like myself it needs to be a bonus.”
