EILIDH Doyle will compete for a third successive Commonwealth medal after being named among 25 track and field athletes selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Games.
Of that group, 19 were part of the team which delivered the best medal haul for 20 years at the home Games at Glasgow 2014.
Doyle will compete in the 400m hurdles while fellow Glasgow 2014 medallists, 800m runner Lynsey Sharp and hammer thrower Mark Dry, are also named.
Glasgow 2014 finalists Chris Bennett and Rachel Hunter will join Dry in the hammer circle, where Bennett will draw on his experience from Rio 2016 and the 2017 world championships.
Callum Hawkins, whose fourth place in the world championships marathon equalled the best ever British performance in the event, will line up alongside Robbie Simpson, a relative newcomer to the event following success as a mountain runner, including bronze at the 2015 world championships.
In a strong endurance squad, Andrew Butchart will make his Commonwealth Games debut following top-eight finishes at both Olympic Games and world championships, while Olympians Eilish McColgan, Steph Twell and Lennie Waite form a formidable force in the women’s events.
Fellow Olympian Beth Potter is set for an unprecedented double in Gold Coast in the triathlon and 10,000m to become the first athlete to compete in two sports for Team Scotland at a single Games.
Holly McArthur, 17, becomes Scotland’s first Commonwealth Games heptathlete for 20 years after completing a “full house” of seven individual event personal bests to reach the qualifying score at the European junior championships in Grosseto, Italy.
Another athlete on the rise in 2017 has been Aberdeen’s Zoey Clark, making a breakthrough over 400m to reach the semi-finals and taking silver in the 4x400m at the London world championships. She will once again run both the individual event and relay in Gold Coast, with Kelsey Stewart and Kirsten McAslan also included in the 4x400m pool.
On the field, Team Scotland will be represented by three high jumpers; Allan Smith, David Smith and Emma Nuttall, while Jax Thoirs is selected for his second Games in the pole vault.
The Gold Coast 2018 para-sport programme is the largest in Commonwealth Games history and Team Scotland will be well represented on the track. Having broken her own world record to take gold over 200m at the World Para-Athletics Championships in London, going on to take a second gold in the 100m and bronze in the 400m, Sammi Kinghorn steps up in distance to tackle the 1500m and marathon in Gold Coast.
At just 21 she is the senior member of a strong Scottish trio in the para-sport events, joined by 17-year-old Rio 2016 Paralympic medallist Maria Lyle and 18-year-old Amy Carr, who won two gold and a bronze at this summer’s world junior championships.
Rodger Harkins, performance director at Scottish Athletics said: “I want to offer my congratulations to the athletes and coaches selected. They have really performed well in the past year and made a commitment to the Commonwealth Games and to a Gold Coast event being held in April. I’m really pleased with the application and planning that’s already being shown and has been shown over the past few months.”
Also confirmed for Gold Coast are boxer Sean Lazzerini, gold medallist for Team Scotland at the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games, and men’s beach volleyball pairing Seain Cook and Robin Miedzybrodzki.
With beach volleyball making its debut at Gold Coast 2018, Cook and Miedzybrodzki make history as the first athletes from the sport to be selected for a Commonwealth Games.
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