Until last weekend, there is a good chance that you may not have heard the name Sarah Calvert.
Nevertheless, there is little chance that a 24-year-old student will now go under the radar. Her spectacular arrival on the British scene over the middle distance has changed everything.
This also applies to the domestic local Livingston, thanks to the fact that she became the new champion in the UK in Scotland after being at the Birmingham title at the Olympic silver medal Laura Muir.
“He feels amazing,” Calvert said. “I did not expect this to ever happen, but especially not to be employed by Maja to study for exams, which was quite stressful for me.
“As soon as I crossed the line, I knew it was crazy. I knew it was the biggest moment in my life. Then I had my first anti -doping test, so it was another good experience.
“I have since then I have so many messages from school, from all my friends, from my parents’ friends. It seems that all this is very special.”
Calvert’s sports status is such that it is now haunting fast racing in Europe to try to do the British team for the next month.
Her social status surprised her by the newly found fame.
“My father sent me the text yesterday that he told me that I had a Wikipedia page now,” she told the BBC Scotland at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank Stadium, one of her regular training venues when he was taking a break at the University of Edinburg.
“It’s kind of crazy. I didn’t really expect it to blow that way.”
Winning one of the best events in the British calendar will do this for your profile.
He now has an agent who is hunting for a race to see if he can take six seconds at the World Cup and run into the GB team for Tokyo.
And while Calvert is ready to record it best, her life in the middle of chaos is still justified at the moment. She wants to be a doctor as well as an athlete and has tried to cross a fine line between excellence on both.
“I wouldn’t say any chance before last weekend,” she admitted that she had done the World Cup. “It’s still a long way to go because I have to lead a lot personally. I think I just have to go for it.
“I definitely feel busy, day by day, when I am on Uni. I train in the morning, cycle to a hospital for accommodation and then train again in the evening. But I enjoy both.
“I often worry that I am threatening running for medicine and then vice versa, but I think I just have to accept that I want to be a runner and I want to be a doctor at some point in life.
“For now, for now, the best way to combine this is. I rarely have to miss medical training, so I think I think it works pretty well.”
