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Birmingham 2022 Diary: Eilish McColgan wins the CG 10,000m!

Stuart WeirbyStuart Weir
August 3, 2022
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Birmingham 2022 Diary: Eilish McColgan wins the CG 10,000m!

Eilish McColgan takes the W10,000m in the last stretch! photo by Scottish Athletics

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Without question, the most popular victory of the second day of track and field at the Commonwealth Games was Eilish McColgan’s win in the 10,000m. As with so much of her career, Eilish was following in her mother’s footsteps, Liz, having won the Commonwealth 10k titles in 1986 and 1990.

EILISH MCCOLGAN OH MY WORD!!! 🤯

Scotland’s fourth gold medal today and what a way to win it! 🥳

Matching her mother Liz’s success in Edinburgh in 1986 by winning the 10,000m❤️ pic.twitter.com/ieTe4I6Dk0

— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) August 3, 2022

 

She commented afterward: “It feels surreal.  This is my third Commonwealth Games after finishing sixth three times; I am over the moon to win tonight.  I just can’t put it into words”. Her three sixth places were all at different distances. In 2014 (Glasgow) the steeplechase and 2018 (Gold Coast, Australia) 1500 and 5000 and now a win in the 10,000.  She is also entered in the 5000 this week.

The thrill of victory, Eilish McColgan, 10,000m, CG 2022, photo by Scottish Athletics

McColgan was never off the pace, and over the last two laps, it came down to a straight fight between McColgan and Irine Chepe Cheptai, with the lead changing hands before McColgan powered home.  The final result was

1 Eilish McColgan 30:48.60

2 Irine Chepe Cheptai (Kenya) 30:49.52

3 Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich (Kenya) 31:09.46

Coming more analytically, she added: “It has been such an up-and-down year. But I knew the fitness was somewhere in me. Having my family here and the crowd here. It was vibrating through my whole body. I just wanted it so bad. I knew the Kenyans were super strong and would put in bursts. But you can see in that last 100 that I wanted gold. It is an absolute dream. It is so special to have it here in the UK.”

Eilish McColgan wins the CG 10,000m, photo by Scottish Athletics

Mother, Liz, was also on hand to make a comment: “For me, as a mother and coach, to see your daughter winning is amazing. She ran the race the way I knew she was capable of. It has been a long time coming, and I know all the hard work she does. It is great that it all came together.”

I spoke to her in Oregon after both the 5k and the 10k, where she was 10th and 11th.  She felt that she was in better shape than the results suggested but explained that she was running on with a hamstring problem.  Tonight, she got her reward.

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    Since 2015, Stuart Weir has written for RunBlogRun. He attends about 20 events a year including all most global championships and Diamond Leagues. He enjoys finding the quirky and obscure story.

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