Best of British heading to Glasgow for indoors event

The Emirates Arena in Glasgow will be centre of attention again tomorrow as it hosts the SPAR British Indoor Championships.

GB internationalists Guy Learmonth (Lasswade) and Josh Kerr (Edinburgh AC) finished third and fourth over 800m at the Muller Grand Prix last weekend and will return to the same track looking for medals over the four laps.

Banchory sprinter Alisha Rees (Edinburgh AC) is the fastest of the women’s 60m entries, having set a Scottish indoor record in Sheffield last week.

European 4x100m relay gold medallist Harry AikinesAryeetey (Sutton) will be challenged over 60m by Sale’s Andrew Robertson while an interesting entry is 41-yearold former World indoor 60m champion Dwaine Chambers.

Eloise Walker (Edinburgh) should challenge for a podium place over 1,500m after placing third at last weekend’s British Universities Indoor Championships in Sheffield.

Kirsty Fraser (Preston) tops the UK 1,500m rankings, while also among the entries is Scottish champion Jenny Selman (Fife AC).

The championships are without a host of big names with Dina Asher-Smith, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Adam Gemili focusing on the summer’s Olympics in Tokyo.

There is also no qualification for the World Indoor Championships, which were due to be held in Nanjing next month, after they were postponed until next year because of the Coronavirus outbreak.

● A record 2,460 entries have been received for the Scottish National Cross-Country Championships at Callendar Park, Falkirk, today.

Andrew Butchart heads the senior men’s entries but will be pushed all the way over the 10km course by Central colleague Jamie Crowe who was second at the Stirling Home Countries International last month.

A dark horse could well be Perth Strathtay Harrier Ben Greenwood, who finished eighth at Stirling as well as taking second place behind Crowe at the East of Scotland Championships at Piperdam in December.

Scottish internationalists Stephie Pennycook and Annabel Simpson head a strong Fife AC entry as they look to defend the women’s team title.

Fife will likely be challenged by Shettleston, led by Irish internationalist Fionnuala Ross.