Discus thrower pleased with silver from British Championships
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Kirsty Law was among a crowd of Scottish athletes to earn podium places at the British Championships in Manchester last weekend.
The Inverness Harriers life member was one of six Scots to earn a medal across the whole event, and one of five to claim silver in their respective events – which in Law’s case was the discus.
A season’s best throw of 57.30 metres on Sunday saw her comfortably ahead of Zara Obamakinwa, who recorded a new personal best of 55.99m to take third.
The victor Jade Lally was the only competitor to break the 60m mark to finish on top of the podium. Still, it was an encouraging display for Law, who has been disappointed with her 2023 so far.
“I’m really happy with that, I had to work hard for it,” she told Scottish Athletics’ website.
“It was a season’s best, so I’ll take it. In 2020 or 2021 I won with a PB of 57.95m, but it’s the second furthest I have thrown at a British Championships.
“I had to work hard for that, because everyone threw so well.
“I had wanted to end my season with the British Championships because it was going so badly – I just missed so much training and I felt like I wasn’t in a good place.
“You never know when it’s going to be your last season, and I’m getting a bit older now, so I thought I would do the British Championships and the Scottish Championships and that would be it. I’ve found a bit of feeling though, and I threw reasonably well, so I’ll do a couple more events and then end my season at the Scottish Championships.”
Joining Law as Scots with medals coming out of Manchester were men’s discus thrower Nick Percy, high jumper Will Grimsey, 800m runner Jemma Reekie and 1500m runner Laura Muir. Going one better and winning gold, though, was men’s 1500m runner Neil Gourlay.
