{"id":119830,"date":"2026-05-05T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/laura-wins-mile-and-bucs-medals-for-scottish-students-scottish-athletics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:39:08","slug":"laura-wins-mile-and-bucs-medals-for-scottish-students-scottish-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/laura-wins-mile-and-bucs-medals-for-scottish-students-scottish-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura wins Mile and BUCS medals for Scottish students &#8211; Scottish Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta-date\">Tuesday 5th May 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo by James Rhodes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Muir<\/strong> opened her track season with a mile victory in Oxford on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Our 2026 <strong>Lindsays National XC<\/strong> champion has been in heavy training since winning that day at Falkirk in February.<\/p>\n<p>Laura took the opportunity to support the Bannister Miles event in Oxford and duly won the <strong>Millicent Fawcett Mile<\/strong> in 4:34.05.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It wasn\u2019t about the time today it was just about getting out and racing again,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was quite a late decision but I was keen to support an event in Britain \u2013 and win a big trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve been doing a lot of endurance stuff, so longer reps at a faster pace, and it\u2019s making me really strong.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-115511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-ZGEl85sSbjEXD-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland internationals Lucy Fraser and Sofia Vidak won gold medals at BUCS (photo by Bobby Gavin)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotstats.net\/results-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Results on scotstats website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were some strong performances by Scottish students at the<strong> BUCS<\/strong> outdoor champs in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Gold medal success in individual and Men\u2019s Relay events offered encouraging signs to forthcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>Performance summaries are on the link above and we highlight here medals as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Day Three<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finlay Ross Davie<\/strong>: Gold 5000m; <strong>Bradley Francis<\/strong>: Bronze 400m Hurdles; <strong>Peter Bradshaw<\/strong>: Gold 3000m steeplechase<\/p>\n<p>Aberdeen (<strong>Thomas Welsey, Bradley Francis, Thomas Brennan, Justin Ekeh)<\/strong>: Gold 4\u00d7100 Relay<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Fraser: Silver 200m; <strong>Sofia Vidak<\/strong>: Gold 800m; <strong>Katie Johnson<\/strong>: Bronze 800m; <strong>Amy Kennedy<\/strong>: Silver Shot Put<\/p>\n<p>Para<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cameron Thores<\/strong>: Silver 400m;\u00a0<strong>Rebecca Scott<\/strong>: Silver 400m; Bronze Shot Put<\/p>\n<p><em>Day Two<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Para<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Scott<\/strong> Gold 200m<\/p>\n<p><em>Day One<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucy Fraser<\/strong>: Gold 100m<\/p>\n<p>Para<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Scott:<\/strong> Golds 100m, 200m LJ;\u00a0<strong>Cameron Thores<\/strong>: Bronze 100m;\u00a0<strong>Freya Howgate<\/strong>: Silver Discus<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>This weekend <strong>Nathan Mobbs<\/strong> (North Ayrshire ) and Charis Crawford (Springburn) were selected and subsequently competed for Scotland at Vault Manchester Summer Series 1.<\/p>\n<p>Highlight of the meet was <strong>Charis Crawford<\/strong> who jumped an equal PB of 3.75 in her first outdoor meet of the year, while Nathan gathered worth while experience competing in a high level domestic field.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/laura-muir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Muir<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function ( d, s, id ) {\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName( s )[0];\n        if ( d.getElementById( id ) ) return;\n        js = d.createElement( s );\n        js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=234654626717555\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore( js, fjs );\n    }( document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk' ));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/laura-wins-mile-and-bucs-medals-for-scottish-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}