MEDAL HOPE

London is calling Lynsey Sharp. All points en route are merely background noise. However, the former European 800m champion is showing signs of easing along a trajectory that will afford her the opportunity to pitch for a place in the final at August’s IAAF world championships and then see where the fates take her then.

For the second time inside four days, the Scot was able to reduce her season’s best at yesterday’s Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, once more inside the qualifying standard for the global showpiece with a time of 2:00.19.

It was still only enough to come eighth but, in a mass sprint for the line, the 26-year-old was just over a second behind Olympic silver medallist Francine Niyonsaba who claimed victory ahead of home favourite Lovisa Lindh.

Sharp, who has opted out of next weekend’s European Team Championships in Lille, is not expected to compete again until the British trials in Birmingham in two weeks time.

Elsewhere in the Swedish capital, Jack Green was fourth in the 400m hurdles while Canada’s Andre degrasse won the 100m in a wind-assisted 9.69 secs.

Meanwhile, proof that the Caledonian athletics production line appears ready to keep churning out

“The two girls Jemma Reekie beat in the 1500m were ranked second and third in Europe”

COACH ANDY YOUNG