Medicine and athletics are a tough double act. It's 54 years this month since medical student Roger Bannister was first to run below four minutes for the mile.

Few doctors since have excelled at athletics as well, with demands of both careers now perceivedly harder.

Roger Black decided it could not be done, and took Olympic 400m silver after concentrating on track. Curtis Robb decided athletics would come second after nearly losing his life on the Hillsborough terracing.

And Olympic medallist Linsey Macdonald waited until her international career was over before qualifying as a doctor.

Yet four medics were on the podium at the Scottish Closed Championships over the weekend, three landing gold.

Nony Mordi, a second-year student at Edinburgh who faces exams over the next three days, broke the Scottish native record in the triple jump with 13.41 metres at Meadowbank.

Her winning distance was 13.76m, but, as luck would have it, that was the only one of her six attempts for which the wind was over the permitted two metres per second maximum.

"I wasn't too sure about competing," said Mordi. "There's no point risking doing some harm when you are not mentally right into it. But I reckoned I'd a had a good few sessions in the library, and felt on top of my work."

Just a week ago Mordi jumped a windy 13.62m and set a new national best of 13.49 to win the British student title.

She is currently best in Britain, and European Cup selection is a possibility, though former world indoor record-holder Ashia Hansen is threatening a comeback.

"I'll probably compete against her at Bedford in what is effectively the trial for the European Cup," said Fifer Mordi.

Morag MacLarty, the former European under 20 champion at 1500m, has sat her written finals at Dundee, and now faces orals, but took the 800 metres in 2min 09.51 with an impressive front run, while Pitreavie's Jamie Coull denied her classmate, Jonathan Oparka, the 100m title by just two hundredths of a second.

Inadequate equipment at the crumbling capital edifice meant the pole vault could not be held at Meadowbank, and was switched to Grangemouth.

Commonwealth pole vault internationalist and Scottish record-holder, Kirsty Maguire, spent five hours standing over an operating table - hardly ideal preparation for athletics, but Dr Maguire put the previous day's schedule behind her to take the women's title with 3.85 metres.

Medals had been delivered by scottishathletics staff, but could not initially be found, and Maguire was finally presented with hers in the toilet. Ah, the glamour of Scottish track and field.

With places for next weekend's Loughborough International at stake, competition was keen. GB internationalist Carey Easton, already confirmed for the 400m there, looked to have the 200m title at her mercy as she coasted through her heat, easing off in 25.21.

"I have been doing 200m repetitions in 24 seconds, so I know I can go a lot quicker," she said, "but I felt a slight tightness in my hamstring so I'm not running the final."

That was won by Gemma Nicol in 25.18, while Craig Fleming, third in the men's 100 behind Coull, reversed the placings to win the 200m.

Central's Alastair Hay won a quality 5000m in 14:31.65 ahead of national cross-country champion Mark Pollard.

However, the top Scottish athletics performance of the weekend was not at the closed championships, but in Lombardy.

Eilidh Child, who has assumed the mantle of Scotland's No.1 400m hurdler, now that Commonwealth bronze medallist Lee McConnell has switched to the flat, won an international grand prix race in Pavia, Italy yesterday.

The Pitreavie physical education student, fifth in the European junior champion-ships last summer, clocked 57.29, her third-fastest ever.

England's Sian Scott was second in 57.91. The pair are set to meet again at Loughborough next weekend.

PE student Child claimed Scott's British Universities hurdles mark earlier this month.