But slightly nearer to home it was young Gala Harrier Demi Yorke who bagged a trio of golds on Saturday at the Bank of Scotland age-group championships at Grangemouth.

Her haul of medals mirrored two of Bolt's in the 100m and 200m but she also added a third in the long jump, bettering her silver medal in that event last year.

Having been placed first in her heat in the 100m in 13.37 seconds, Demi stormed through the final and won it in 13.41 seconds. Her 200m final was won in a new personal best of 28.16, beating the runner up by just 4/100th of a second. But the long jump was the most testing of all, beating 14 other tough competitors with a superb leap of 4.70m.

And there were plenty of other great performances by young Gala athletes across the two days of the championships on both Saturday and Sunday.

Emily Douglas progressed through the heats of the Under-17 girls 100m in a PB of 13.16 in third place, and achieved a creditable sixth place in the final in 13.20. In the boys under-13 800m, Rowan Marr, in his first full season of competition qualified in third place in his heat in two minutes and 28.61 seconds and finished an excellent 5th in the final in an even better time of 2.25.62.

On Sunday, the action involved Alice Haining in the under-15 girls' 1,500m where she claimed a well-deserved silver medal, while Martha Douglas and Sophie Elder qualified for their respective finals in the 100 and 200m.

Also claiming silver was Peebles' Faye Nicholson in the Under-17 long jump, who recorded 5.28m, just 7cm short of winner Laurie McKenna of Edinburgh AC.

Senior athletes from the club have also been keeping their ends up in various events across Scotland.

World Mountain Trophy Trial (Cairngorm), Men 10km, Female 8km, Uphill Only: Euan Jardine, 55.51, 21st; Derek Brydon, 67.28, 38th; Katy Anderson, 54.24, 11th

Rachel Fagan, 56.37, 13th.

Haddington Half Marathon: Gregor McAneny, 1.29.53, 32nd; Martin Clarke, 1.30.46, 38th; Graham Pogson, 1.34.33, 48th; Andrea Pogson, 1.38.43, 75th.

Achilles Heel Bella 5km (Bellahouston Park-Glasgow): Graeme Murdoch, 16.31 PB, 4th.