Eilish McColgan Parents: Meet Peter And Liz: Eilish McColgan is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner born on November 25, 1990.
She attended the High School of Dundee and studied mathematics and accountancy at the University of Dundee, graduating in 2013.
McColgan is the 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,000 meters champion with the Games record and 5000 meters silver medallist.
She’s a four-ti me European Championships medallist, winning silver medals for the 5000 m in 2018 and 10,000 m in 2022, bronze in the 5000 m in 2022, and a bronze for the indoor 3000 meters in 2017.
She’s the European record holder for the 10 km road race, and the British record holder for the 5000 m, 10,000 m, 5 km, and half marathon. She also holds the European best in the 10 miles on the roads.
McColgan also represented Great Britain at the 2012 London, 2016 Rio, and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
She represented Scotland at Commonwealth Games in 2014 in Glasgow, and in 2018 in Gold Coast in addition to the 2022 Games in Birmingham.
McColgan is the Scottish record holder in the event she originally specialized in, the 3000 meters steeplechase, from 2013 before injury forced her to move away from steeplechase.
She holds the Scottish record in 10,000 meters after winning the 10,000m title at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. McColgan is a seven-time national champion.
In November 2022, she set a new British record in the 15 kilometers with her fourth-place finish in a time of 47:40 at the Zevenheuvelenloop in the Netherlands, breaking her mother’s official record of 47:43.
In March 2023, Eilish McColgan made headlines she broke Paula Radcliffe’s 21-year-old British women’s 10,000m record at the Sound Running The TEN in San Juan Capistrano, California.
McColgan clocked 30min 00.86sec to win the event, shattering Radcliffe’s mark of 30:01.09 that she set when winning the European title in Munich in 2002.
The event took place on Saturday, 4 March 2023 in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Eilish McColgan Parents: Meet Peter And Liz
Eilish McColgan was born in Dundee, United Kingdom to Liz McColgan (mother) and Peter McColgan (father). Both parents were athletes.
Her mother is a former 10,000 meters World Champion and Olympic silver medallist
Following her mother’s second marriage, McColgan is the step-daughter of long-distance runner John Nuttall and step-sister of his son, para-athlete, Luke Nuttall
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