TWO Scots brothers were left celebrating yesterday after they were both named in the Great Britain team for this summer’s Olympics.

Kibarchan marathon runners Callum and Derek Hawkins both clinched their spots in Rio after finishing well under the 2:14:00 cut off point during Sunday’s London Marathon.

Twenty-three-year-old Callum was the first British athlete to finish on the day in what was astonishingly only his second ever race over the distance, and the University of the West of Scotland student said: “I’ve been running since I was eight years old.

“It’s a progress that's been going on for a long time. It’s just the last year I’ve made the jump and the training has been specific.

“Maybe the change to marathon has suited me more. I’ve progressed at senior level. I’ve been a good junior but this is senior.”

Callum’s rapid finish of 2:10:52 may have put his selection in the squad beyond doubt – along with Glasgow-based Eritrean Tsegai Tewelde of Shettleston Harriers – but brother Derek was left to sweat over his place on the flight to Brazil.

The 26-year-old finished 14th and was granted a discretionary place yesterday morning.

For the man who juggles life as an athlete along with a personal training business and shifts in Morrisons, it is a dream to not only make it the Olympics but do so with his younger sibling.

“For Callum it was to confirm his place but for the last 48 hours, I wasn’t sure who was in the team,” he said.

“So I got the call just before 9. It was a pretty good call to wake up to. I was still pretty spent from the weekend. The adrenaline was just wearing off yesterday so I slept pretty well.

“The last year, Callum’s been the most consistent male endurance road runner in Britain It’s good to have him to train with, especially the last six months, where he’s really kicked on.

“He had two great half-marathon runs in the spring that’s showed how good he is. To be able to hang onto his coattails has been really good.”

And what can the pair hope to achieve?

“A perfect ideal would be top-20 for both of us – that would be brilliant,” added Callum.

“But it is going to be a situation we’ve never been in before. The conditions will be 20-odd degrees…I don’t think we’ve ever done that. So it is going to be pretty tough.”