Badminton starlet Kirsty Gilmour won the Best Up and Coming Sportsperson at the Scottish Variety Awards last week.

Apr 1 2010 by Andrew McGilvray, Hamilton Advertiser

KIRSTY GILMOUR picked up her latest top honour last week when she was named Best Up-and-Coming Sportsperson at the Scottish Variety Awards in Glasgow.

The 16-year-old badminton star from Bothwell was delighted to scoop the gong at a glittering awards ceremony in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Friday.

And Kirsty got a taste of the big-time earlier that day when she appeared on GMTV to publicise the awards.

“She was on GMTV on Friday as the only sports person in her category, so I twigged that she might just win it but Kirsty didn’t and was delighted she did,’ said her dad, Brian.

“It’s a great achievement and she might have to get used to this sort of thing, but it’s only happening because she works so hard.”