Neil fourth twice at Grand Slam Track; Angela PB and Oliver Euro U20 standard

Monday 7th April 2025

Neil Gourley is having an excellent 2025 and the World Indoors medallist demonstrated that again at the Grand Slam Track opener in Jamaica.

A fortnight on from his fine silver medal at the World Indoors in China, the Giffnock North AC athlete and Josh Kerr featured in the men’s 1500m and 800m events,

When the dust settled in Kingston, Neil had two fourth place finishes to his name while Josh was fifth in the 1500m and then eighth over the two lap distance.

Kenya’s 800m Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi was the ‘Men’s Short Distance’ Grand Slam winner after his victory in the 1500m and second place in the 800m.

In that first race, Neil pipped Josh for fourth by one hundredth of a second as he clocked 3:35.60 to the Edinburgh AC athlete’s 3:56.61.

Then Neil followed that up with fourth in the 800m final in 1:47.84 with Marco Arop winning in 1:45.13.Neil headed some big names over two laps as he finished before the complete Men’s 1500m podium from the Olympics in Paris!

Josh, who has been nursing a hop injury in his build-up to Jamaica, was eighth in the 800m at 1:50.68.

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There were some strong performances by Scots in America.

Angela McAuslan-Kelly landed a new PB in the hammer as she threw out to 62.15m. Angela is thus fifth ranked in our all-time list as she added a metre or so to her previous best.

Oliver Patton of Kilbarchan AAC clocked a European U20 qualifying standard over 5000m. Oliver clocked 14:06.81 to post that mark.

In the same race, Tom Graham-Marr was at 13:39.39 with a fine PB run and Ben MacMillan at 14:08.25.

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Tags: Angela McAuslan-Kelly, Josh Kerr, Neil Gourley