{"id":284727,"date":"2025-07-23T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:21:11","slug":"scotland-team-selected-for-home-nations-5k-race-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284727\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland team selected for Home Nations 5k race in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"meta-date\">Wednesday 23rd July 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"707\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joma-919498-707x469.jpg\" class=\"attachment-home size-home wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/athletes\/selection-policies-international-handbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight athletes have been selected to represent Scotland on the roads next month.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to name those picked to compete at the <strong>SportShoes Home Nations 5k<\/strong> in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place in Cardiff on <strong>Saturday 30 August<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our eight selected athletes and their families, coaches and clubs on being chosen to represent Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynn McKenna<\/strong> (Shettleston Harriers); <strong>Morag Millar<\/strong> (Central AC); <strong>Stefanie Tucker<\/strong> (Cambuslang Harriers); <strong>Kirsty Walker<\/strong> (Edinburgh AC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland Men:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Bradshaw<\/strong> (Edinburgh Uni Hare and Hounds\/Inverclyde AC); <strong>Hamish Hickey<\/strong> (Central AC); <strong>Jamie MacKinnon<\/strong> (Cambuslang Harriers);\u00a0 <strong>Finlay Ross Davie<\/strong> (Edinburgh Uni Hare and Hounds\/Garscube Harriers)<\/p>\n<p>As per our selection document for Road Running and Cross Country international opportunities, the team was selected based on current form over 5k races of a similar distance (on road or track).<\/p>\n<p>Team Size: Up to four men and up to four women (with one U23 athlete for development \u2013 where appropriate).<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Mackay<\/strong> of Shettleston Harriers will be the team manager for Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With thanks to Angela Mudge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Believe-Belong-Achieve-Together.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Believe-Belong-Achieve-Together.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"60\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/cardiff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardiff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday 23rd July 2025 International Handbook Eight athletes have been selected to represent Scotland on the roads next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-284727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114901580778090449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}