Maybole marvel Kayleigh Haggo has been picked for the Scotland Boccia workforce — simply 4 months after making an attempt the game for the very first time.
Kayleigh, 23, is a six-times world file holder at Framerunning and each a World and European champion.
Nonetheless, subsequent week she's going to flip her hand to the precision sport of boccia, when Scotland do battle on the Czech Open in Prague.
Boccia is an analogous sport to bowls and petanque and is designed for athletes with extreme bodily disabilities.
It’s been a Paralympic sport because the 1984 video games in Los Angeles.
Kayleigh solely took up the game earlier this 12 months.
However earlier this month, she topped the rostrum on the SDS Nationwide Boccia Championships, successful the BC1/2 class.
Now she’s been drafted into the Scotland workforce that can contest subsequent week’s competitors, together with fellow Scots Fiona Muirhead and Tyler McLelland.
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Kayleigh stated she was “delighted” to have been chosen for her first worldwide boccia competitors after solely 4 months within the sport, including: “Huge because of Scottish Boccia for the choice!”
A spokesperson for Scottish Incapacity Sport (SDS) stated: “The Czech Open returns to the worldwide calendar and Scottish Boccia has chosen three gamers to attend the occasion which is able to happen in Prague from June 3 to June 5.
“Fiona Muirhead (BC4), Tyler McLelland (BC4) and Kayleigh Haggo (BC2) will make their worldwide debuts within the sport and can play inside each the person and pairs format of the competitors.”
The group might be joined by Boccia UK BC4 participant, Louis Saunders, who will workforce up with Fiona Muirhead within the pair’s competitors.
The spokesperson stated: “The Czech Open offers the right alternative for Scottish gamers to compete on the Worldwide stage, supporting their preparation as an elite degree athlete forward of potential future choice for Boccia UK programmes.
“SDS is delighted to see our gamers competing in worldwide competitors once more following a troublesome couple of years for the game, and we want all of them each success."
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