EDINBURGH University medical student Nony Mordi has begun the new athletics season where she left off last year with another Scottish record in the triple jump.
Mordi won the British Universities title at Bedford this week with a championship best performance of 13.62 metres, which easily tops the British rankings for the season so far and puts her fifth on the UK All-Time list.
Though that effort was sli
ghtly wind-assisted, Mordi, who is coached by Capital jumps guru John Scott, also had a legal jump of 13.49m, which easily beat her own personal best of 13.22m and Gillian Kerr's Scottish national record of 13.25m.
Jayne Nisbet (Edinburgh AC), who had already won the high jump, reached 12.82m, just below her best of 13.01m but good enough for the bronze.
Another Scottish record to fall came in the javelin where James Campbell, now a student at Leeds Metropolitan and under the wing of former Edinburgh University coach Malcolm Brown, added over half a metre to his own national mark with a heave of 73.70m.
There was also a Scottish under-20 record for Lisa Glover (EAC) in the women's javelin, where she reached 46.04m, only just missing a medal, while Stacey Wilson (EAC), like Nisbet a student at Stirling, took the silver in the hammer with a throw of 49.53m.
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