Editor’s be aware: Stuart Weir has spent every week in Glasgow, Scotland. This previous week, our pal was writing for RunBlogRun and his different media companions, overlaying a Commonwealth Video games 2026. Stuart has a fantastic humorousness, and generally you see it in his columns. His humor is current on this one! Thanks, Stuart!
A becoming Finale
Six days of Monitor and Area on the Commonwealth Video games got here to an finish on Saturday night. Glasgow has solely had two years to arrange for the video games, which had been initially deliberate to happen in Australia. In distinction to the conversion of fifty.000 capability soccer stadium, Hampden Park, for monitor and discipline on the 2014 Commonwealth Video games, this time monitor and discipline came about within the a lot smaller Scotstoun stadium, capability 11,000.
The ultimate night program was highlighted by the boys’s and girls’s mile but additionally included a males’s 800 and 5000m, three discipline occasions, three relays and two para-athlete occasions. The three relays had been female and male 4X100 and a combined 4X400. There have been no single-sex 4X400 relays in this system. I don’t know why they don’t seem to be included; my greatest guess is that lots of the smaller Commonwealth international locations wouldn’t have 4 athletes of the requisite customary.
There was a wonderful males’s pole-vault competitors which appeared to go on all night, unbothered by these athletes who stored working laps previous them. As an apart, there was motion wherever you had been sitting. On the prime finish of the stadium, you had that absorbing pole-vault competitors; on the again straight, you had the beaming Jazmin Sawyers successful the lengthy soar. On the different finish of the stadium you had the primary bend within the mile, which, as some athletes had mentioned beforehand, got here in a short time and will catch you out. On the house straight you had all of the thrilling finishes.
Going again to the pole vault, Kurtis Marschall (Australia) received with 5.85 – a formidable peak on a chilly, windy night. Your correspondent was carrying a shirt, sweater and zip-jacket. Kyle Rademeyer (South Africa) received the nod over England’s Owen Heard with each clearing 5.70 for silver.
Mackenzie Little received the ladies’s javelin with 61.88. Matthew Kipsang received the 5000m in 13:23.61. Navasky Anderson received the 800m in 1:45.33, displaying that his spectacular dive to assert the final place within the semi-final paid dividends. England’s Ben Pattison beat Alex Botterill (who had overwhelmed him within the semi) by 0.01 of a second however was nonetheless 0.13 secs from bronze. To rapturous applause, Melanie Woods received the one-lap wheelchair race for Scotland in 56.43.
Jamaica received the combined 4X400 relay and the ladies’s 4X100 whereas Australia simply held off
Canada and Andre de Grasse within the males’s dash relay.
Within the closing occasion of the night time, there was an Australian clear sweep within the ladies’s 1609m race – generally known as the mile. Abbey Caldwell received in 4:39.31 from Jess Hull and Claudia Hollingsworth. RunBlogRun is attempting to substantiate the rumor that Jess Hull is just not racing immediately, having run 4 occasions up to now 5 days!
Geoff Wightman, the stadium announcer, posted on social media at 11.10pm that he was going robust with nonetheless a number of medal shows to complete. Don’t inform my editor, however your correspondent had performed a runner after the ultimate race.
See you in 4 years in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
