EILIDH DOYLE will run in her third Commonwealth Games after her place in the Team Scotland squad was confirmed this morning.

The Pitreavie AAC ace will run in her third successive Games on the Gold Coast and is one of a 25-strong track and field squad selected.

Olympic 4x400 metres relay bronze medallist Doyle, 30, had been expected to be picked in a year that saw her pick up a World Championship 4x400m silver in London.

She'll compete in the 400m hurdles at the Games and will go for gold after memorably winning silver at Delhi in 2010 and Glasgow in 2014.

The Bath-based star has enjoyed glittering success since enjoying the adulation of a packed Hampden Park three years ago.

She's gone on to become a European Champion in both the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay, win World Championship relay silver and bronze and bag a superb Olympic medal last year.

Doyle also reached her first 400m hurdles Olympic final in Rio, finishing eighth, and the World Championship final in the summer, also placing eighth.

She was selected by her Team GB team-mates to captain the squad at that event in London and, by winning relay silver, surpassed Yvonne Murray as the most decorated Scottish athlete in Olympic World, European and Commonwealth competition.

Doyle is one of 19 athletes picked who also competed in Glasgow, where Scotland delivered their best Commonwealth Games medal haul for 20 years.

Rodger Harkins, performance director at scottishathetics said: "I want to offer my congratulations to the athletes and coaches selected. They have really performed well in the past year and made a commitment to the Commonwealth Games and to a Gold Coast event being held in April. I’m really pleased with the application and planning that’s already being shown and has been shown over the past few months.

"When you take in the way Scottish athletes and coaches have stepped up over the past two years – and their involvement in the Olympics in Rio and then London 2017 – then we see the strength and the depth. Here we are seeing that reflected in a Team Scotland selection for athletics.

"What we have with this selection is a team with a very high percentage of final contenders. The overall selection policy for Team Scotland was predicated on a top six finish in each event and taken over the last three Commonwealth Games events – including Glasgow 2014. So immediately that raised the bar in terms of standards from Hampden, because the selection for Glasgow 2014 was based on a potential top eight finish."

Team Scotland Chef de Mission, Jon Doig OBE, added: "Congratulations to all selected today, as we welcome a great mix of experienced athletes and those who will be part of Team Scotland for the first time. We have a strong tradition of success, right from the first Games, in both Athletics and Boxing, with results continuing real upward momentum since 2014. Beach Volleyball, with its iconic relationship with the Gold Coast, will create new traditions and the recent qualifying success shows Team Scotland will more than hold their own in 2018."

Today’s selections bring the total number of athletes named to Team Scotland to 96, following team announcements for Swimming and Lawn Bowls in October and Squash, Boxing, Triathlon, Shooting, Para-Bowls and Weightlifting in November.

Further selections will be made in the new year, with the full team due to be announced by 1 March 2018.