DUNFERMLINE Track and Field Club runner Jamie Bowie will race for Scotland in the Sainsbury’s International Match in Glasgow on Saturday.

The 25-year-old 4x400 metre athlete was one of nine Commonwealth Games stars selected for the event and will compete with team-mates Greg Louden and Grant Plenderleith at the Emirates Arena after the trio finished fifth at the Games, setting a new national record in the process.

Bowie competed in the event last year – the first time the Scots had fielded a team in the international match – against athletes from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the USA and a Commonwealth select.

Along with Pitreavie AAC’s Anthony Young, they helped set a new national indoor 4x400m record of 3:09.84 as they finished third.

As well as GB and Northern Ireland, the Scots will this year take on France and Germany and Bowie said, “I am really excited to be competing for Scotland at the international match and I have brilliant memories of the home support at the Commonwealth Games last summer, so to race again for my country in Glasgow will be a really special way to kick off 2015.

“I’m sure all the athletes will be looking for a strong start to the indoor season, so it should be a great competition to watch.” Bowie will also run in the 400m in which he took another third place last year and is the only West Fife athlete confirmed to compete.

His club team-mate and fellow 4x400m runner Gemma Nicol (pictured right with Bowie), who competed in the relay and individual 400m 12 months ago, could still be given the call to join Kirsten McAslan, Diane Ramsay and Zoey Clark for the 4x400m after she, along with Pitreavie’s Eilidh Child, helped the Scots to second place in a national indoor record of 3:35.27.