{"id":6158,"date":"2024-10-28T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-kerr-named-scottish-athlete-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T20:42:44","slug":"josh-kerr-named-scottish-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-kerr-named-scottish-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kerr named Scottish athlete of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World 1500m champion and Olympic silver medallist Josh Kerr has been named Scottish Athletics’ athlete of the year.<\/b><\/p>\n

Head of performance Mark Pollard said it was reward for the 27-year-old’s “exceptional year”.<\/p>\n

“He delivered success at a championship level both indoors and outdoors over the past year and the ability to produce his best performances in the moments where it mattered are a credit to his professionalism and dedication to our sport,” he said.<\/p>\n

“To have a Scotsman win a World Championship in Scotland at the World Indoors was something truly significant. <\/p>\n

“Going beyond that, to win the silver medal in Paris in what can only be described as a 1500m final ‘for the ages’ was another incredible achievement in a strong season.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Paris 2024 Paralympic champions Samantha Kinghorn and Ben Sandilands shared the Para athlete of the year award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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World 1500m champion and Olympic silver medallist Josh Kerr has been named Scottish Athletics’ athlete of the year. Head of performance Mark Pollard said it was reward for the 27-year-old’s “exceptional year”. “He delivered success at a championship level both indoors and outdoors over the past year and the ability to produce his best performances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6160,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}