Eilish McColgan and Jake Wightman have been confirmed as two of nine Scots in Team GB’s athletics squad for the Paris Olympics.

Wightman, 29, has been given a discretionary pick for the 800m after sitting out the British trials because of a calf injury.

The 2022 world champion over 1500m missed out in his favoured event, with fellow Scots – current world champion Josh Kerr and new British champion Neil Gourley – taking two of the three available places.

McColgan has been chosen to run the 10,000m selection despite a season troubled by injury.

The 33-year-old, who is the British record holder, won 10,000m gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and followed that with European silver.

It will be a fourth Olympics for McColgan, who will be joined over the same distance by compatriot Megan Keith.

“I have always prided myself in having a good 800m – it is probably my favourite of the two because I don’t race it as much and there is not as much pressure perhaps,” Wightman said.

“It is nice I am actually going to a championships with the chance to show what I can do over 800m with a full build-up towards that, because normally I am focussing on 1500m work whereas now I can get ready for the shorter distance.

“I want to prove I am as good at that event as I have been at 1500m, and in a championship when you have got to run three 800m in four days, if you have got a bit more endurance like myself it should be an advantage.”