UKA today announced a clutch of European champions in the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team set to compete at the Spar European Team Championships in Stockholm, Sweden 18-19 June.
Barcelona gold medallists Dai Greene, Andy Turner, and Phillips Idowu, will be joined by European Indoor champion Helen Clitheroe in a strong team also featuring other key Aviva GB&NI performers from the last two major championships.
Following his selection for the 400m hurdles, Dai Greene will also hope to lead by example as team captain for the event, by scoring maximum points in the first track discipline of the championships.
Shana Cox makes her Aviva GB&NI team debut in the 400m – Cox can compete for GB at the European Team Championships because the IAAF do not list the event as one that athletes are ineligible for when changing nationality.
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Perri Shakes Drayton, who has also put in some fast performances over the flat 400m in recent weeks, will line up in the 400m hurdles having clocked a fast season-opener of 55.36 in Eugene last weekend – also a World Championship A standard.
World Junior bronze medallist Holly Bleasdale takes the women’s pole vault berth following her outdoor lifetime best 4.50m in Ostrava last week, alongside reigning World Junior Champion Sophie Hitchon who will compete in the hammer having set a new senior UK record at Bedford last month. There is also a GB&NI team debut for Shara Proctor in the long jump and Greg Beard (Mark Chapman) in the men’s shot.
AVIVA GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND WOMEN’S TEAM
100m: Anyika Onuora (Lloyd Cowan) - Liverpool Harriers
200m: Abi Oyepitan (Tony Lester) – Shaftesbury Barnet
400m: Shana Cox (Chris Johnson) - unattached
800m: Jenny Meadows (Trevor Painter) - Wigan
1500m: Charlene Thomas (Aaron Thomas) - Wakefield
3000m: Stevie Stockton (George Gandy) - Vale Royal
5000m: Helen Clitheroe (John Nuttall) - Preston
100mH: Tiffany Porter-Ofili (James Henry) - unattached
400mH: Perri Shakes Drayton (Chris Zah) - Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets
3000mSC: Hatti Dean (Bud Baldaro) Hallamshire
4x100m: Jeanette Kwakye (Michael Afilaka) Woodford Green & Essex Ladies
Ashleigh Nelson (Michael Afilaka) City of Stoke
Anyika Onuora
Laura Turner (Linford Christie) - Harrow
Asha Philip (Mike McFarlane) – Newham & Essex
Abi Oyepitan
4x400m: Kelly Massey (Stephen Ball) - Sale
Lee McConnell (Rodger Harkins) Shaftesbury Barnet
Jenny Meadows
Nicola Sanders (Tony Lester) Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow
Perri Shakes Drayton
Kelly Sotherton (Aston Moore) Birchfield
High Jump: Emma Perkins (Fuzz Ahmed) - Worthing
Pole Vault: Holly Bleasdale (Julien Raffalli- Ebezant) - Blackburn
Long Jump: Shara Proctor (Rana Reider) - unattached
Triple Jump: Yasmine Regis (Peter Stanley) – Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow
Shot: Rebecca Peake (Gert Damkat) - Sale
Discus: Jade Nicholls (Andrew Neal) – Shaftesbury Barnet
Javelin: Goldie Sayers (Dan Pfaff) - Belgrave
Hammer: Sophie Hitchon (Derek Evely) - Blackburn
Louise Hudson, Sportsister
The Women’s Sports Magazine
