Eilish McColgan reflected on her “absolute dream” season after adding a European Championships silver medal to her Commonwealth Games double.
The Scot admitted to disappointment in the immediate aftermath of being beaten to the 10,000-metre gold medal by Turkey’s Yasemin Can in Munich on Monday night.
But she was soon able to see the bigger picture after claiming a third major medal inside the space of two weeks. The 31-year-old won 10,000m gold and 5,000m silver at Birmingham around two weeks after finishing in the top 11 of both events at the World Championships in Oregon.
McColgan has now run four sub-31-minute 10,000m races on the track this year – double the amount that any other woman has achieved in the history of the event in any year.