That the Parliament celebrates the achievements of Fife Athletic Club runner, Ben Sandilands, 21, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, on winning the Paralympics T20 1500 metres final in a world record time of 3:45.40 in Paris; notes that the runner, who trains at the Pitreavie Athletics Centre in Dunfermline, raced on 6 September 2024 in front of a large crowd at the Stade de France; understands that the Fife Athletic Club star burst clear in the final 200 metres to triumph from second-place and third-place runners from Portugal and America; notes that the winning time of Sandilands, who had won World Gold in Paris in 2023, shaved 0.1 seconds off the previous global best, since 2017; believes that this is Ben’s first Paralympic Gold and Britain’s fifth Para-athletics Gold medal; applauds that Ben has also set a new world record for the T20 1500 metres race, clocking in a time of 3 minutes, 45.40 seconds, and extends its very best wishes to the athlete for continued success in the future
Supported by:
Clare Adamson, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Sharon Dowey, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Annabelle Ewing, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Stuart McMillan, Mark Ruskell, Kevin Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Annie Wells, Brian Whittle