‘Scottish athletes must embrace the home crowd support at Glasgow 2026’ – Christine

Friday 26th December 2025

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Christine Ohuruogu believes Scottish athletes will relish their home Commonwealth Games moment at Scotstoun next summer.

The Glasgow 2026 venue is of course much reduced in capacity to Hampden at Glasgow 2014 but the World and Olympian champion still expects a raucous reception when Team Scotland athletes compete.

Ohuruogu raised the roof herself at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow at the end of November when she attended as our Guest of Honour for the 4J Annual Awards.

Scottish 4J Athlete of the Year recipient Jake Wightman has already been pre-selected for the mile next summer while Melanie Woods, 4J Para Athlete of the Year after two medals at the World Para Champs, is eyeing potential wheelchair opportunities over 1500m and 400m.

It all brings London 2012 memories flooding back for Ohuruogu who represented GB and NI after growing up a short training run from the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.

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‘I am a Stratford girl and that Olympics in 2012 means so much to me,’ recalled Christine.

‘Glasgow will be amazing for Scottish athletes. I think every sports person – in whatever sport – should have the chance once in their career to step out and play or compete in front of your home crowd at international level. It is quite simply one of those things you never forget.

‘You are always grateful when the opportunity comes up and the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealths present that for Team Scotland.

‘I loved racing in London and I wish I could do it again. The body now might not let me. You don’t forget that feeling of standing there on the start-line in a packed stadium and feeling ‘everyone is behind me and supporting me’.

‘It is brilliant and Jake will relish it and I hope Melanie is there, too.’