Thursday 11 June 2026 8:25 am
Eilish McColgan joins performance nutrition brand Sport in Science
Distance runner Eilish McColgan has hailed upcoming research developments for female athletes after this morning joining performance nutrition brand Sport in Science. The reigning 10,000m Commonwealth Games champion, from Scotland, has become a member of Sport in Science’s Elite Performance Advisory Panel, citing the need to tackle the research gap between men’s and women’s sport. She will help provide “athlete insight to inform future performance research and education initiatives”, according to a statement.McColgan said: “The performances, the visibility, the investment – it’s all moving in the right direction. But the science hasn’t kept pace.“We have research coming that I genuinely believe could be as transformative for female runners as the super shoe revolution was for distance running.”The move for the Brit comes after Adidas super shoes saw both the men’s and women’s marathon world records broken in London earlier this year, with the former seeing Sabastian Sawe clocking the world’s first legal sub-two hour time.Around five per cent of sports science is focused exclusively on women’s sport and female athletes, which comes ahead of a Sport in Science report due later this year on recommendations for refuelling female endurance athletes.
