Glasgow athlete Lee McConnell is set to become the first Scottish track and field athlete to win an Olympic medal since Allan Wells in 1980, after finding out she will belatedly receive a bronze medal from the Athens Olympics in 2004.

The Scot, who ran the final leg of the 4x400m alongside fellow Brits Donna Fraser, Catherine Murphy and Christine Ohuruogu, has been awarded the honour after the International Association of Athletics Federations [IAAF] recently disqualified American Crystal Cox for her admitted involvement in the BALCO conspiracy, outing elite athletes taking performance enhancing drugs.

Cox recently accepted a four-year period of ineligibility and disqualification of her results from 2001 to 2004. This includes her gold medal winning performance with the 4x400 US relay team in Athens, in which McConnell’s GB team finished fourth.

According to the IAAF competition rules, the US relay team results will be disqualified and the revised placings are Revised medal places are: 1. Russia 3:20.16, 2. Jamaica 3:22.00, 3. GB 3:25.12.

This gives McConnell the unique honour of being first Scot to win medals at all four major outdoor athletics championships: Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth.