Eilish McColgan the golden girl on a night when Team Scotland blow the competition away

Eilish McColgan provided Team Scotland with their most spectacular moment of these Commonwealth Games with a stunning gold medal-winning performance in the 10,000 metres at a packed Alexander Stadium.

And the new Games record holder, who paid tribute to her parents for guiding and inspiring her to within touching distance of a first major championships triumph, thanked the Birmingham crowd for carrying her down the home straight for a “career-defining” victory.

On a day when the Scots picked up four golds in total, McColgan admitted she would never again enjoy the perfect storm of performance and family circumstance that saw her sprint beyond Kenya’s Irine Chepet Cheptai to send the ‘home’ audience — including a large section of the wider McColgan clan — wild with