ATHLETICS

O’HARE TRIUMPHS IN BIG APPLE Chris O’Hare, leading a Scottish 1-2, became the first British winner of the Wanamaker Mile at the New York Indoor Millrose Games since John Whetton in 1965.

The West Linton athlete built up an insurmountable lead heading into the last lap to finish in 3 mins 54.14 secs as Edinburgh team colleague Josh Kerr came through strongly to finish second in 3:54.72 pipping Ben Blankenship (USA) 3:54.77 on the finish line.

Dunblane athlete Andrew Butchart posted 7 mins 47.21 secs in the 3,000m to take fifth place with winner Shadrack Kipchirchir (USA) clocking 7:45.49.

There was a world indoor recordbreaking run in the women’s 4x800m as the USA’s Chrishuna Williams, Raevyn Rogers, Charlene Lipsey and Ajee’ Wilson combined to clock 8:05.89 ahead of a New York All Stars team featuring Lynsey Sharp whose split of 2:03.18 contributed to a finish time of 8:11.45.

Genzebe Dibaba powered her way to the second fastest indoor 1,500m of all time to highlight the indoor Karlsruhe meeting, the opening leg of the 2018 World Indoor Tour.

The Ethiopian’s 3:57.45 run is second only to her 3:55.17 world indoor record at the same meeting four years ago.

Alex Yee, the winner at the British Universities/Colleges Cross-Country Championships at Hillingdon, had to forgo the post-race presentation after being rushed to hospital. Yee, who was representing Leeds Beckett, sustained a nasty gash in his foot early on and had blood pouring from his torn spikes throughout the 10km race.

It was his first proper race since his 13:37.60 5,000m in May last year – a performance which put him number four on the UK all-time rankings – and subsequent bicycle crash in a triathlon race in June when he broke ribs, fractured his vertebrae and suffered a collapsed lung. Recently crowned European junior champion Harriet Knowles-Jones took the women’s title, with Kirkcaldy athlete Stephie Pennycook, representing Edinburgh University, placed a fine 12th.

Results: Men, 10km – 1 A Yee (Leeds Beckett) 32.35, 2 C Olley (Imperial College) 32.38, 3 E Cairess (St Mary’s) 32.43 … 27 T Rees (Glasgow) 34.36, 33 E Gilham (Edinburgh) 34.51. Teams. 1 St Mary’s 38, 2 Cambridge 54, 3 Oxford 75 … 6 Edinburgh 157. 40 St Andrews 837.

Women, 6km – 1 H Knowles-Jones (Manchester) 22.39, 2 P Law (St Mary’s) 22.43, 3 P Bowden (Brunel) 22.43 … 12 S Pennycook (Edinburgh) 23.39, 25 N Lang (Edinburgh) 24.39. Teams. 1 Loughborough 24, 2 St Mary’s 30, 3 Birmingham 44, 4 Edinburgh 44 … 56 St Andrews 1508. Dunfermline Track and Field’s Mya McMahon won the Scottish Indoor Under-13s pentathlon title at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow, totalling 2,817 points.

McMahon’s top points earner came in the opening 60m hurdles race won in 9.74 seconds to gain 761 points, this was followed by high-jump 1.53m (655), long-jump 4.81m (508), shot 7.67m (378) and 800m 2:45.15 (515). Results: Pentathlon, under-15 boys – 1 A Brindley (N Ayrshire) 2,684

… 5 F McGilp (Pitreavie) 1,948, 8 J Callaghan (Dunfermline T & F) 1,537. Under-13 boys – 1 D O’Donnell (Lifford, Ireland) 1,632 … 5 C McLeod (Pitreavie) 1,333, 12 E Wilson (Pitreavie) 1,006, 14 B Ferguson 860, O Morrison 892, 16 C King 757, all Dunfermline T and F. Under-13 girls – 1 M McMahon (Dunfermline T and F) 2,817… 5 Pitreavie 2,206, 6 C Black (Dunfermline) 1,984, 17 N Stephen 1,509, 19 C Joiner 1,327, 20 M Phillips 1,242, 27 K Richardson 1,048, 36 R Cooper 926, all Pitreavie.