Athletics: City middle distance pair race for a place in American Collegiate Final
Both men are on athletics scholarships in the USA and have already enjoyed a fine indoor season. O'Hare finished second in the NCAA Indoor 1500m Championships after setting the second fastest mile time ever by a Scot indoors (3:56.48) and Gauson also dipped inside four minutes (3:59.74) in an indoor race though he did not qualify for the Indoor finals.
The two former clubmates, who first started training with Dave Campbell a decade ago, have reached the championships at Drake University today through contrasting routes, O'Hare via the West regional qualifier in Eugene, Oregon, where he clocked 3:46.33 for 1500m, and Gauson via the East qualifier at Bloomington, Indiana where 3:48.38 was good enough to see him through.