NONY MORDI (Fife AC) was the only record-breaker of a nevertheless keenly-contested Scottish Senior Closed Championships and East and West District age-group Championships at Meadowbank Stadium.
The third year Edinburgh University medical student reached her longest triple jump distance yet, a super 13.76 metres to improve on the wind-assisted 13.62 metres she achieved at the British Universities Championships in Bedford last Monday, only to
discover that this too was wind-aided (+2.7 metres per second), ironically the only one of her six efforts to be over the 2.0m/s limit.
But there was a silver lining as there had been in Bedford (where she jumped a legal 13.47m for a new National record) for her second best jump of 13.41m was within the limit and constitutes a new Scottish Native record (for a performance achieved in Scotland).
Mordi now clearly leads the British rankings for the season and her coach John Scott believes she is capable of reaching the Olympic qualifying B standard for Beijing of 14.00m.
Stable-mate Gillian Cooke (Edinburgh AC) found the cold East wind and misty conditions yesterday less conducive to records but still won the long jump with a respectable 6.25m.
Eilish McColgan (Dundee Hawkhill Harriers) smashed her personal best for the 1500 metres by fully eight seconds in finishing second in 4:27.67 to Nicola Gauld (EAC) (4:19.03), then won the 2000 metres steeplechase in what she thought was a record 6:56.69 only to discover that the runners should have taken the water jump five times and not four.
Edinburgh's Lynsey Sharp, the 17-year-old daughter of former European sprint medallist Cameron, did not quite manage to win the women's 400m, but her third place behind Kilbarchan's Claire Gibson (55.33) in a personal best of 55.51 bodes well for her 800 metres campaign this season.
• SCOTTISH champion Eilidh Child (Pitreavie) clocked a season's best of 57.29sec in winning a 400m hurdles invitation race at Pavia, near Milan yesterday. The 21-year-old Edinburgh University student was only 0.18sec outside her best-ever time in beating last year's winner England's Sian Scott, who was second in 57.91sec.
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