OSLO, Norway, 16 June. In a memorable Dream Mile race at Oslo's Bislett Games, Jake Wightman took down Graham Williamson's 40-year-old Scottish mational One Mile record of 3:50.64 with his run of 3:50.30 in third place.  Taken through the first 800 metres in 1:53.30 by the pacemakers, three runners - Jakob Ingebrigten, Oliver Hoare and Jake - were clear and finished in that order, with the Norwegian winning in a world leading 3:46.46. Neil Gourley was also in fine form with a big improvement in his mile best to 3:52.91, becoming the fourth fastest Scot outdoors at the event. 

HENGELO, Netherlands, 6 June. Eilish McColgan produced an outstanding run at the FBK Games at Hengelo to win the 10000 metres by 25.25 seconds and smash the Scottish record of 30:57.07 by 38.05 seconds. Liz McColgan's record had been set at the same venue in 1991. 

EISENSTADT, Austria, 2 June. Jack Lawrie, competing at the Austrian Open, has bettered the Scottish National Record of 50.24 seconds, held by Charles Robertson-Adams since 2001. Lawrie came mightily close before with his 50.25 run at Bedford in 2017 but having raced little over the last two years, he has looked strong since his return with three sub-51 seconds runs in four races in May before clocking 50.07 in Austria to break the record (subject to ratification).

The following changes of club have been approved by scottishathletics with effect from 1 May 2022:

Iona Brodie, Aberdeen AAC to Dundee Hawkhill Harriers; Sophie Frater, Airdrie Harriers to Cumbernauld AC; Conan Harper, Teviotdale Harriers to Giffnock North AC; Mark Holliman, North Ayrshire AC to Kilbarchan AAC; Fearne Jarrett, Fife AC to Dundee Hakhill Harriers; Imogen Jarrett, Fife AC to Dundee Hakhill Harriers; Linzie Marsh, Pitreavie AAC to Falkirk Victoria Harriers; David Rose, Perth Strathtay Harriers to Dundee Hawkhill Harriers; Donald Ross, Team East Lothian to Edinburgh AC; Fiona Steele, Strathearn Harriers to Law & District AC; Lucy Ward, Hunters Bog Trotters to Lasswade AC.

WALNUT, California, 16 April 2022. It is a new Scottish national discus record for Nick Percy, bettering his 63.38 performance from July 2016. It's been a long time coming but Nick threw 63.47 with his first throw at the Mt. SAC Relays meeting.

The following changes of club have been approved by scottishathletics with effect from 1 April 2022:

Rebecca Burns Edinburgh AC to Pitreavie AAC, Gordon Campbell Penicuik Harriers to Carnegie Harriers, Sam Coull Ross County AC to Inverness Harriers AAC, Malin Hardy North Ayrshire AC to Kilmarnock Harriers, Anna Kelly Springburn Harriers to VP Glasgow AC, Laurence Liu Cambridge & Coleridge to Edinburgh AC, Imogen McClune North Ayrshire AC to VP Glasgow AC, Oliver Pound Portobello RC to Carnethy Hill RC, Kaydi Smith Arbroath & Dist AC to Dundee Hawkhill Harriers, Catriona Pennet Edinburgh AC to Aberdeen AAC, Janice Webster Pitreavie AAC to Kinross RR, Isla Williams Ochil Hill Runners to Central AC, Julie Wylie Kilbarchan AAC to VP Glasgow AC.

and a catch up on those approved with effect from 1 March 2022:

Caitlin Anderson Kilmarnock Harriers to Shetland AAC, Michelle Best Carnegie Harriers to Ochil Hill Runners, Heather Bruce Inverness Harriers AC to Aberdeen AAC, Joanne Clancy Dundee RR to Edinburgh AC, Logan Craig Kirkintilloch Olympians to Cumbernauld AC, Libby Currie Whitemoss AAC to VP Glasgow AC, Branden Dunlop Ayr Seaforth AC to VP Glasgow AC, Isabella Ellwood Skipton AC to Edinburgh AC, Leya Gibb Central AC to Falkirk Victoria Harriers, Derek Glasgow Fraserburgh Rc to Arbroath& Dist AC, Emily Happell Ayr Seaforth AC to VP Glasgow AC, Andrew Johnston Springburn Harriers to Linlithgow AC, Sean Laroche Haddington RC to Team East Lothian, Magnus Lawson Haddington RC to Team East Lothian, Scott Macleod Metro Aberdeen RC to Edinburgh AC, Wynn Mardall Banchory Stonehaven AC to Deeside Runners, Cole Queen Clydesdale Harriers to VP Glasgow AC, Sarah Roberts Metro Aberdeen AC to Aberdeen AAC, Robbie Shaw Aberdeen AAC to Edinburgh AC, Joe Smith Musselburgh & Dist. AC to Team East Lothian, Reuben Whamond Arbroath & Dist AC to Dundee Hawkhill Harriers.

BELGRADE, 18-20 March. The first World Athletics Indoor Championships since 2018 took place over the weekend and for the five Scottish athletes in the Great Britain & Northern Ireland team, it was a new experience - all were competing in the event for the first time.

Adam Thomas has emerged as a top-class sprinter, the first Scot to represent GB&NI in the 60 metres at these Championships since Elliot Bunney in the first official championships in 1987. There was an initial World Indoor Games in 1985 where Cameron Sharp placed 6th, but Thomas surpassed expectations with three strong runs and a 5th place in the final.

The fast pace of the 1500 metres stretched out the field of 12 athletes and Neil Gourley was solidly in sixth throughout but couldn't make inroads on the five in front. Never in danger of losing his position, Gourley's sixth place in a World final was an excellent achievement.

Guy Learmonth reached the final too but not in the event he would have expected or wanted. He ran the final leg in the sixth placed GB 4x400 team , but will be disappointed to have been eliminated in the heats. But with the first two only to qualify, Learmonth found himself run out of it by the eventual silver and bronze medallists.

The women's 800m qualifying allowed for the first two and the next two fastest and, as is often the case, this favoured the final heat runners and four athletes qualified from that heat. Agonisingly the Canadian Butterworth's time of 2:01.99 knocked out Jenny Selman by one hundredth of a second in Selman's first international competition since the European Juniors in 2009.

Learmonth, Selman and Erin Wallace all found themselves in heat one of their event and the 1500 metres provided five finalists from heat three. Wallace found the pace tough in heat one and conceded 4.5 seconds to fourth-placed Linden Hall  over the last 300 metres.

BOSTON, 27 February: Josh Kerr set new Scottish, British and European indoor mile records and became the third fastest ever in the world  in Boston on Sunday. His time of 3:48.87 at the Boston University Last Chance meet better his own pending Scottish record of 3:52.27 and was more than three seconds inside fellow Briton Peter Elliott's 1990 mark. It also took  more than a second off Irishman Eamonn Coghlan's 1983 European record time.

Kerr was faster than Elliott's British indoor 1500m record - 32 years to the day after it was set in Seville. He passed 1500m in 3:32.86 en route to finishing his mile - more than a second quicker than Elliott in Spain, and better than Jake Wightman's Scottish indoor record of 3:34.48 set in New York last year.

Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha, the world indoor mile record holder on 3:47.01 and Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj (3:48.45) are the only athletes in history to have run faster for the event.

The following changes of club have been approved by scottishathletics with effect from 1 February 2022:

Wendy Campbell, Springburn Harriers to Westerlands CCC; Iain Carroll, Giffnock North AC to Bellahouston Harriers; Katie Dinwoodie, Shetland AAC to Pitreavie AAC; Lucy Fitzsimmons, VP Glasgow AC to Shettleston Harriers; Martin Kerrigan, Peterhead AC to Garioch Road Runners; Gordon Lawson, PH Racing Club to Fife AC; Ruby Renton, Edinburgh AC to Pitreavie AAC; Jacob Tainsh, Garscube Harriers to VP Glasgow AC; Kevin  Stephen, Garioch Road Runners to Insch Trail RC.

GLASGOW, 5 February 2022. There was no doubt about the Scottish star of the DNA Athletics International as Fife's Jenny Selman first set a Commonwealth Games and World Indoor Championships qualifying standard of 2:00.70 in the pre-match 800 metres and then went on to win the match 800 with the most exciting finish of the day. Although Scotland finished 6th and last in the match, there were fine performances from Allan Hamilton setting a PB of 6.72 in the 60 metres and Emma Canning clearing a PB of 5.97 with her final long jump. Alisha Rees, too, set a season's best with a strong 60 metres run in 7.36.

As for the "innovative" event itself, there were pluses and minuses. The 2-hour timetable was good, reducing the time where nothing happens, and the focus given to each event, with nothing else to distract, gave added interest to the field events. The DNA format had already suffered as top athletes avoided the event for stronger competition elsewhere and I didn't think the field events worked. The head-to-head nature of the shot saw the athlete producing the best throw place 5th, and the mismatched nature of the high jump led to the better athletes jumping within themselves before the final jump-off round ended with six failures. The long jump fared better, but the final climax, The Hunt, was a mess - with the strongest team getting a 6.70 seconds advantage, the winner was never in doubt from the first leg. 

Entertaining enough, but as a traditionalist, I think it would have worked better as a straightforward international match across the selected events.

NEW YORK, 29 January 2022. In the same month as indoor mile record-holder Chris O'Hare announced his retirement, Josh Kerr has captured the Scottish national record, running 3:52.27 for second place at New York's Millrose Games. 

Kerr, in his first run since the Olympic Games in Tokyo last August, where he set an outdoor national record for 1500 metres, followed the early pace of Erik Sowinski, who took the field through the first two laps in 56.89 and 57.68 to reach the half-way point in 1:54.57. Kerr went to the front on lap 3 but could not hold off Australian Ollie Hoare, who passed the three-quarter mile mark in 2:53.26 to Kerr's 2:53.35. Kerr regained his lead to pass 1500m in 3:35.48, one second outside Jake Wightman's national record, but Hoare was too strong and went on to win in 3:50.83.

Kerr's 3:52.27 bettered Chris O'Hare's national indoor record of 3:52.91 and was Josh Kerr's 7th sub 4 minute mile.

1 January 2022. World Athletics world ranking lists at the end of 2021 show Laura Muir is the highest placed Scot, 25th in the women's rankings (up from 36 in 2020). Jemma Reekie moves up to 62nd. Jake Wightman remains top Scot on the mem's side, ranked 180th, down 30 places from the previous year.  Here are the leading Scottish athletes at the end of 2021 (2020 position in brackets):

The following changes of club have been approved by scottishathletics with effect from 1 January 2022:

William Bailey, Motherwell AC to Cumbernauld AAC; Ethan Carolan, Giffnock North AC to Aberdeen AAC; Chloe Cheyne, Inverness Harriers to Edinburgh AC; Lewis Craigie, VP Glasgow AC to Kilbarchan AAC; Claire Cunningham, Lothian RC to Run Livingston; Daniel Docherty, Clydesdale Harriers to Kilbarchan AAC; Eva Gray, Hamilton & Dist AC to Law & District AC; John Hammond, Carnethy HRC to PH Racing Club; Scott McDonald, Moorfoot Runners  to PH Racing Club; Emily Miller, VP Glasgow AC to Cumbernauld AAC; Sam Milton, Metro Aberdeen RC to Moray Road Runners; Louie Muir, Kilbarchan AAC to Giffnock North AC; Nicole Ritchie, Annan & Dist AC to Nithsdale AC; Ewart Scott, Lothian RC to Highland Hill Runner; Matthew Tait, Lasswade AC to Dunfermline T&F AC; Lois Thomson, Haddington RC to Team East Lothian; Sophie Widdowson, Corstorphine AAC to Edinburgh AC.