Hamilton triathlete Grant Sheldon will take confidence into the European Championships in Munich after producing a robust efficiency on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
Sheldon completed fifth within the particular person triathlon on Friday and likewise helped the group to fifth, Scotland’s best-ever relay end on the Commonwealth Video games, two days later.
That was his third Video games, having competed at Gold Coast 2018 the place he completed seventeenth individually and seventh within the combined group relay, and at Glasgow 2014, ending 14th and seventh, respectively.
The person triathlon was gained by England’s Alex Yee, forward of New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with Australians Matthew Hauser and Jacob Birtwhistle third and fourth.
England additionally gained the relay, forward of Wales, Australia and New Zealand.
“To complete fifth, I feel I executed just about in addition to I might have accomplished on the day, so I can’t be upset about that,” he mentioned.
“I used to be positively pleased with that.
“It’s positively the very best I’ve accomplished within the Commonwealth Video games, by a good distance, however I haven’t actually put it into perspective but.
“I used to be in a position to carry out on a day when there’s numerous stress, and I did end simply behind the very best guys on the earth.
“After I went into it I set my expectations, and a extremely good consequence can be a top-six, and with a completely blinding efficiency possibly I’d sneak onto the rostrum.
“It has been a troublesome few years’ racing, with some poor outcomes, and looking out on the guys racing, it was positively the most effective fields there was at a Commonwealth Video games.
“You simply have a look at the primary few guys and proper now they’re most likely the very best on the earth.”
Sheldon added: “Prior to now Commonwealth Video games Scotland haven't carried out very properly within the relay – we’ve simply not received the identical depth as the opposite international locations.
“This 12 months we positively had a robust group entering into, and all of us carried out fairly properly on Friday.
“We ended up being ranked third, after our leads to the people and thought possibly there was an out of doors likelihood of a podium, nevertheless it’s simply typically the best way the cookie crumbles in these occasions.”
Subsequent up for Grant is the 2022 Europe Triathlon Championships in Munich on August 13 and 14.
He mentioned: “I am going into that with a little bit of confidence, and from there a couple of World Cups and World Triathlon Sequence races will end off the season.”
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