Five event wins for Scotland and top U20 women relay performance

Sunday 18th May 2025

Photo by Bobby Gavin

From Peter Jardine in Loughborough

Please note: report subject to corrections, additions and further photographs in due course (at some stage through Monday). Itis not intended to mention every performance. Thanks for your patience.

Places in this report are for the Loughborough Match (so removes guest athletes)

Scottish athletes delivered five event victories and some close seconds at the Loughborough International.

And signs for the future looked good via an excellent sprint relay performance by our U20 Women as they delivered a new best time for a quartet in that age group.

Steven Bryce, Nick Percy, Sarah Calvert, Alyson Bell and William Ritchie-Moulin came up with the event wins while the likes of Alyson was second in her 200m and Kirsty Law was second, too. Andrew McGill was within a tenth of a second of giving Scotland a mile victory double.

Steven kicked things off in terms of event wins – with another success in this event in the Para 1500m match race.

The Scot made it four-in-a-row at the Loughborough International in this particular event. Steven was delighted to clock 4:00.82 to see off all challenges and win here once again. Sam Fernando was fourth in the race (4:16.40).

Nick is a regular winner here and there was no change to that status as he, too, gave Scotland full points. The Olympian won the Men’s discus with 61.75m.

Sarah produced arguably the best win of her career to seal the deal in the Women’s mile.

The field included Olympian Jessica Warner-Judd but Sarah found a superb kick over the last 300m after slipping to fourth place just after the bell.

‘I was a little worried but I had been leading earlier when I didn’t really want to,’ said Sarah.

‘I won the BUCS outdoors a couple of weeks ago so it is nice to add another victory and for Scotland at Loughborough. I just want to keep fit and avoid injury and see what happens – but that today was very enjoyable.’

Moments later Andrew McGill was within a few hundredths of a second of adding another mile success but had to settle for second in 4:07.21. Sarah had won in 4:45.51.

One of the best Scottish performances came from our Women’s development team who set a new Scottish U20 best in the 4x100m.

It was a fine team effort by Kishi Aremu, Sophie Thomas, Emma Clark and Holly Whittaker to better the previous Record.

GB international Alyson Bell had been named as our team captain the night before the event.

Alyson addressed her fellow athletes and one of her key messages was for everyone to enjoy the moment and revel in representing Scotland.

‘You are here for a reason and selected because of all your hard work and good performances,’ said Alyson.

After a relay run with GB and NI, Alyson was second in the Women’s 100m final in 11.46 but won full points in the Match. Alyson was second in the 200m, as well, with 24.13.

Alisha Rees was among those listening on Saturday night and could no doubt agree with another observation from the captain – athletes isn’t always a straight line upwards, there are always setbacks to overcome.

After almost two years out, Alisha clocked 11.84 in her 100m Guest Race and only her second outing since August 2023.

Steven Bryce celebrates after his fourth Loughborough International win while racing for Scotland

William Ritchie-Moulin in hurdles action (photo by Bobby Gavin)

Para sprinter Cameron Thores was in 400m action and while the Pitreavie AAC athlete felt he could have been quicker, the pride at representing Scotland shone through in conversation – with hopes high for Commonwealth Games selection.

‘It is such an honour to represent Scotland and this is my second Loughborough International after last year,’ said Cameron, who was second in the Match with 54.05. He later finished second in a Mixed Para 100m which also featured Cara Murphy as a guest.

‘There is a 100m opportunity for me at Glasgow 2026 and that’s a big goal. I will keep working away to try and hit the time required in the rankings.’

Para sprinter Ross Paterson clocked 12.33 in his 100m race.

There was a second place for Kirsty Law in the Women’s discus with 54.38m her best on the day. Greg Millar was fourth in the javelin with 63.64m.

Scotland debutant William Ritchie-Moulin took third place in the sprint hurdles with 13.95 SB but that was actually a Match win with two guests involved.

In a couple of one lap races there were fourth place finishes for Ben Heron in the 400m hurdles in 53.62 and Dylan McCulloch in the flat in 48.12. In guest races, Georgina Adam had a good 400m win at 54.03.

Back to the field and triple jumper Silver Nwabuzor came up with a PB to leap to 12.57m and take fifth place. Amy Kennedy was third in the shot with 14.72m.

Alessandro Schenini was fourth in the Men’s long jump with 7.35m. Hannah Wallace leapt to a 6.05m PB.

Sofia Vidak was third in the Women’s 800m while the Men’s Match saw Lewis Watt take fourth for Loughborough in 1:52.54 and Scotland’s Jonathan Marshall was fifth in 1:53.00.

In the 200m Men’s final, Krishawn Aiken was fourth with 21.58. Over 3000m, Andrew Fyfe was third in the match with 8:23.68.

Scotland were fourth in the Mixed Relay match with runs from Calum MacKenzie, Carys MacAulay, Tom Evans and Lorne Kerr. The 4x100m Women’s team was third in the Match with 45.85. The Men’s 4x100m team took third in 41.21.