DUNFERMLINE athlete Anthony Young is celebrating a double dose of glory after racing to a Scottish and British title within the space of just two weeks.

The 25-year-old, a former member of Pitreavie AAC, took to the track at both the Scottish Indoor University and College Athletics Championships, and the BUCS (British Universities and College Sport) Nationals, last month and earned 400 metres gold medals in each.

Now competing for Glasgow City/Kilbarchan, Young's first competition was the Scottish Championships, which was held at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on February 4.

He took the 400m title by setting a new PB of 48.14 seconds to set him up for the BUCS event, which took place in Sheffield from February 16-18.

Young, who is currently studying at Glasgow Clyde College, was able to compete alongside two fellow students after encouraging the college to become full members of BUCS.

It paid off in style as, after easing through his heat in a time of 49.75, Young then qualified for the final by finishing second in his semi-final in 48.48 behind Edinburgh's Declan Gall.

In what was a tense final, the West Fifer battled through a packed field and just crossed the finishing line first (48.40) ahead of Gall (48.48) and Cardiff Metropolitan's Joseph Brier (48.49).

"I didn't really know what was happening," he commented.

"The first lap wasn't too quick from me and then I got boxed in a little bit, clipped his heel and stumbled, and I couldn't get past.

"My aim was to hold it steady and run for second, but the leader started pulling back and I knew I could get this, so I just went for it.

"I didn't feel that comfortable in my lane but I felt relaxed. I just kept trying to believe in what I could do in the last 150m and my coach reassured me that I was in good shape and that this was possible.

"Most of us were quite tentative in the start but the coach knows I usually do well from that. I kept asking the people around me if I could do it, but luckily I did."

Young, who lived in Oxford close to where the late Sir Roger Bannister completed the first sub-four minute mile growing up, joined Pitreavie at the age of 11 and claimed a number of club records, which included Ian Mackie's senior indoor 400m.

The former McLean Primary School pupil – who told Press Sport ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games that his mum "forced" him along to athletics after his elder sister tried out for the cross-country team – helped Scotland take third place in a national indoor record time of 3:09.84 in the men's 4x400m relay at the Sainsbury's International Match in the same year.

But he missed out on qualifying for the Games in Glasgow before moving to the city to find a new coach and change his training, and enrolled at college.

While still basking in the glory of his BUCS success, Young said: "I've got the outdoors coming up soon so I'm looking forward to that, and it's nice to be able to head into that phase with a win under my belt.

"I've got a warm weather training camp in Tenerife and then the attentions are on the BUCS outdoors in May. A lot of the quicker guys will likely be there so I've got to get myself in good shape for that.

"This is my first BUCS and it's been fantastic; the set-up was fantastic and we were even running a little bit early for our race.

"You get that chance to chill out and the athletes can feel really comfortable as opposed to everything being rushed. It does make a big difference."

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