{"id":298457,"date":"2025-07-28T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298457\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:29:12","slug":"olivers-to-fore-amid-scottish-medal-rush-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298457\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivers to fore amid Scottish medal rush in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"meta-date\">Monday 28th 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\/07\/olm-1-707x469.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-home size-home wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver Macdonald claims gold in Birmingham in U20 3000m (photo by James Rhodes)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Note: This story is subject to corrections and will be updated on Tuesday. Please bear with us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotstats.net\/results-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish results and medal outcomes on scotstats.net website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scottish athletes enjoyed memorable medal moments in the Alexander Stadium at the last Commonwealth Games in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a similar story over the weekend on another visit to <strong>Birmingham<\/strong> for the <strong>England Athletics Senior <\/strong>and <strong>U20 Champs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winning selection for Finland was the target in the younger age groups and making the GB and NI team for the European U20 Champs in Tampere in August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver Patton<\/strong> set a strong tone for Scots with his gold medal win in the 1500m on Friday \u2013 the Kilbarchan AAC athlete punched the air as he punched his ticket for Finland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver MacDonald<\/strong> followed that lead with 3000m success for the Giffnock North AC athlete ensuring his selection, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaya Slater<\/strong> will join them in the 100m with the Falkirk Vics athlete now having confirmed Scottish eligibility ( with dad Roddy having run for Scotland a generation ago).<\/p>\n<p>Silver and bronze medal positions in the Men\u2019 400m for <strong>Dylan McCulloch<\/strong> (Pitreavie AAC) at 48.31 and <strong>Luc Macleod<\/strong> (Banchory Stonehaven) at 48.33 also bode well for selection (although they do not have the individual standard).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matilda Brockley<\/strong> won the U20 Women\u2019s Triple Jump to add another gold to the Scottish medal haul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"785\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Callum Newby wins decathlon gold (photo via Jamie Bowie)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These were among the U20 highlights and the medal rush was significant at Senior level, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Great to see real strength displayed by Scots in field events as athletes beat a regular path to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>There were title wins for:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Percy <\/strong>and <strong>Kirsty Law<\/strong> in the discus; <strong>Alessandro Schenini<\/strong> in the long jump; <strong>Callum Newby<\/strong> in the decathlon and Bera Ajala in the triple jump.<\/p>\n<p>At Senior level, in addition to those five golds, <strong>William Ritchie-Moulin<\/strong> won silver in the sprint hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>At U20 level, in addition to those mentioned above, there were medals for:<\/p>\n<p>Silver: <strong>Charis Crawford,\u00a0Logan Mitchell, Sophie Robertson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bronze: <strong>Reiss Marshall,\u00a0Anna Reid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a weekend of success for our Para athletes in Birmingham, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross Paterson, Adam Donnachie, Kirsty Soutar<\/strong> and <strong>Finlay Menzies<\/strong> all made podium visits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/birmingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/england-athletics-champs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England Athletics Champs<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday 28th July 2025 Oliver Macdonald claims gold in Birmingham in U20 3000m (photo by James Rhodes) *Note:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930867483524847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298457","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=298457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}