{"id":124129,"date":"2026-06-29T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/naomi-third-mont-blanc-marathon-jake-329-paris-cardiff-u18-scottish-athletics\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:32:19","slug":"naomi-third-mont-blanc-marathon-jake-329-paris-cardiff-u18-scottish-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/naomi-third-mont-blanc-marathon-jake-329-paris-cardiff-u18-scottish-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi third Mont Blanc Marathon; Jake 3:29 Paris; Cardiff U18 &#8211; Scottish Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta-date\">Monday 29th June 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naomi Lang (photo by Bobby Gavin)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scottish athletes were in action in various locations, and disciplines, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few performances well worth highlighting . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naomi Lang<\/strong>\u2019s off-road achievements have been something of a theme over the past year or two and the GB international mountain and trail runner came up with another big performance.<\/p>\n<p>In the hugely demanding <strong>Mont Blanc Marathon<\/strong>, Naomi placed third to repeat her feat at the same event a year ago. It\u2019s hard to emphasise the degree of difficulty of this famous Alpine marathon event and just great to see a Scot on that kind of podium.<\/p>\n<p><em>Well done to Naomi and her coach, <strong>Lewis Walker<\/strong>, who both featured in one of our recent video documentaries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enjoying the Endurance Journey (by Urbane Media)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVWq_1dl1Tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Wightman<\/strong> came up with the third fastest 1500m time of his career at the Diamond League meet in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Australian<strong> Cam Myers<\/strong> won the race in a new Australian Record of 3:28.00 and Jake placed third in an impressive 3:29.95.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot plans to race 1000m in Monaco in the Diamond League as his preparations continue towards Glasgow 2026 and the European Champs.<\/p>\n<p>Jake spoke to<strong> Stuart Weir<\/strong> in Paris for <strong>scottish<\/strong>athletics . . .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Wightman 3:29.95 for third in Paris Diamond League\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KoCYs52JfLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-116843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/towu18.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young Scottish athletes were in action in <strong>Cardiff<\/strong> as Welsh Athletics host the GB trials for Euro U18s.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, there were automatic selection places secured for <strong>Douglas Knox, Rhian Mitchell<\/strong> and<strong> Aaron Reid<\/strong>. Aaron posted a Scottish U18 Record in the 2000m Steeplechase with his 5:50.31 run.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday there were fine performances by<strong> Alistair Street, Leanna Elliot, Dionne Maguinness <\/strong>and<strong> Sophie Robertson <\/strong>as hopes rose of further Scottish selections.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senior Welsh Champs there were medals for <strong>Dylan Phillips<\/strong> in High Jump, <strong>Euan Urquhart<\/strong> in shot and <strong>Sarah Pearson<\/strong> in the 400m Hurdles. Congratulations to athletes and coaches !<\/p>\n<p>*The GB and NI selection for European U18 Champs is expected to be confirmed by UK Athletics on Wednesday of this week.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/jake-wightman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Wightman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/naomi-lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Lang<\/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\/116837-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 29th June 2026 Naomi Lang (photo by Bobby Gavin) Scottish athletes were in action in various locations, and disciplines, over the weekend. Here are a few performances well worth highlighting . . . Naomi Lang\u2019s off-road achievements have been something of a theme over the past year or two and the GB international mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124132,"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\/124129"}],"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=124129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}