Badminton: Hockey and Campbell hit double top

Edinburgh's Peter Hockey and Lindsay Campbell, the No.4 seeds, claimed the mixed badminton doubles title at the Yonex Dunfermline Open at Duloch Leisure Centre.

In a tight final, they overcame Larkhall's Kenny Young and Bothwell 17-year-old Kirsty Gilmour 21-19,-21-18.

Gilmour, who played for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, still won two titles. She beat Viktoria Tsvetanova 21-15, 21-7 to claim her first Dunfermline women's singles title and then teamed up with Kirsten Geals to take the women's doubles. They defeated surprise finalist Helen McCombe and Michelle Wan 21-9, 21-8.

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In the men's singles final, Dunfermline's Gordon Hoggan, the No.?1 seed, had a comfortable 21-16, 21-14 victory over Kenny Young. Jamie Neill and Keith Turnbull justified their top seeding in the men's doubles but were pushed all the way by Hockey and his Capital partner, Duncan Leith. The Edinburgh boys eventually lost 21-23, 21-17, 19-21.

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