Eve Muirhead and Eilish McColgan have been nominated for Scottish Sports Awards following their heroics in 2022.
Courier columnist Eve led her all-Scots team to Olympic curling gold in Beijing and has been nominated in both the team of the year and moment of the year categories.
Meanwhile, Dundee-born Eilish has been rewarded for her Commonwealth 10,000 metres gold with female athlete of the year and moment of the year nominations.
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— Team Scotland (@Team_Scotland) October 27, 2022
But the star pair aren’t the only athletes from Tayside and Fife whose sterling performances over the last year have been recognised.
Dundonian boxer Sam Hickey thrilled fans in his home city – and all around Scotland – by winning middleweight gold at the Commonwealth Games.
He is now in line to take home the male athlete of the year award at December’s ceremony.
And fresh from winning a historic European gold, Fife teen Niamh Mitchell in in the running to land the young athlete of the year award.
Dunfermline’s Sarah Jane Ewing (lawn bowls), Perthshire’s Rory Stewart (squash), Sam Hickey’s Team Scotland coach Craig McEvoy and Perth and Kinross Disability Sport co-ordinator Graeme Doig are also nominated for gongs, while Kirkcaldy High School is in the running for school of the year.
The full list of nominees can be found on the Team Scotland website.
Selected categories
Female Athlete of the Year: Sarah Adlington (Judo), Neah Evans (Cycling), Eilish McColgan (Athletics), Laura Muir (Athletics).
Male Athlete of the Year: Jack Carlin (Cycling), Sam Hickey (Boxing), Duncan Scott MBE, Jake Wightman.
Para Athlete of the Year: Stephen Clegg (Swimming), Sean Frame (Athletics), Neil Simpson MBE with Andrew Simpson MBE (Skiing), Neil Fachie OBE with Lewis Stewart (Cycling).
Young Athlete of the Year: Niamh Mitchell (Boxing), Kirsty Muir (Skiing), Katie Shanahan (Swimming), Toni Shaw (Swimming).
Team of the Year: Robert Barr, Sarah Jane Ewing, Melanie Inness, George Miller (Para Lawn Bowls); Garry Brown and Kevin Wallace; Rosemary Lenton and Pauline Wilson (Para Lawn Bowls); Greg Lobban and Rory Stewart (Squash); Eve Muirhead OBE, Jennifer Dodds MBE, Mili Smith MBE, Hailey Duff MBE, Vicky Drummond MBE (nee Wright) (Curling); James Heatly and Grace Reid (Diving).
Moment of the Year: Louise Christie’s silver-medal winning ‘Braveheart’ performance; Tyler Jolly’s 11-second knock-out at Birmingham 2022; Eilish McColgan winning 10,000m gold at Birmingham 2022; Team Muirhead’s gold medal performance at the Beijing Olympic Games; Laura Muir making it three medals from three majors with European gold; Ross Murdoch coming back from retirement to win a Commonwealth Games bronze medal; Jake Wightman becoming World Champion in Eugene; Micky Yule bringing his daughter onto the podium after winning Commonwealth bronze.
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