Laura wins Mile and BUCS medals for Scottish students

Tuesday 5th May 2026

Photo by James Rhodes

Laura Muir opened her track season with a mile victory in Oxford on Monday evening.

Our 2026 Lindsays National XC champion has been in heavy training since winning that day at Falkirk in February.

Laura took the opportunity to support the Bannister Miles event in Oxford and duly won the Millicent Fawcett Mile in 4:34.05.

‘It wasn’t about the time today it was just about getting out and racing again,’ she said.

‘It was quite a late decision but I was keen to support an event in Britain – and win a big trophy.

‘I’ve been doing a lot of endurance stuff, so longer reps at a faster pace, and it’s making me really strong.’

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Scotland internationals Lucy Fraser and Sofia Vidak won gold medals at BUCS (photo by Bobby Gavin)

Results on scotstats website

There were some strong performances by Scottish students at the BUCS outdoor champs in Cardiff.

Gold medal success in individual and Men’s Relay events offered encouraging signs to forthcoming events.

Performance summaries are on the link above and we highlight here medals as follows:

Day Three

Finlay Ross Davie: Gold 5000m; Bradley Francis: Bronze 400m Hurdles; Peter Bradshaw: Gold 3000m steeplechase

Aberdeen (Thomas Welsey, Bradley Francis, Thomas Brennan, Justin Ekeh): Gold 4×100 Relay

Lucy Fraser: Silver 200m; Sofia Vidak: Gold 800m; Katie Johnson: Bronze 800m; Amy Kennedy: Silver Shot Put

Para

Cameron Thores: Silver 400m; Rebecca Scott: Silver 400m; Bronze Shot Put

Day Two

Para

Rebecca Scott Gold 200m

Day One

Lucy Fraser: Gold 100m

Para

Rebecca Scott: Golds 100m, 200m LJ; Cameron Thores: Bronze 100m; Freya Howgate: Silver Discus

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This weekend Nathan Mobbs (North Ayrshire ) and Charis Crawford (Springburn) were selected and subsequently competed for Scotland at Vault Manchester Summer Series 1.

Highlight of the meet was Charis Crawford who jumped an equal PB of 3.75m in her first outdoor meet of the year, while Nathan gathered worthwhile experience competing in a high level domestic field.