Moira Stewart so close to Czech marathon time for Olympics
Thursday 15th April 2021
Cambuslang Harrier
Moira Stewart made a spectacular marathon debut earlier this month in the Swiss Athletics Marathon at Belp.
Moira, who has silver and bronze medals from the Lindsays National XC in recent years and whose father Eddie is well-known with Cambuslang, clocked 2.29.39 to finish tantalisingly only nine seconds away from an automatic Olympic place in the Czech Republic team.
The race was staged by Swiss Athletics to help some of their athletes and a few non Swiss invited guests to record an Olympic qualifying time.
As it transpired, the male and female Swiss contenders were well served by pacemakers. The winning male