Athletics Weekly – July 03, 2019

Timetable

1.00pm Inter-schools relay

2.15pm Race 1 men

3.00pm Race 2 men

3.45pm Race 3 men

4.30pm Race 4 women

5.15pm Race 5 men

6pm VIP Q&A with Liz McColgan,

Bram Som and Andy Vernon

7.00pm The Strava Mile Pursuit

7.15pm Race 6 women – inc

European 10,000m Cup B race

8.00pm Race 7 men – inc European

10,000m Cup B race

8:45pm Race 8 women – inc

European 10,000m Cup A race,

British Champs & GB world

trials

9.30pm Race 9 men - inc European

10,000m Cup A race, British

Champs & GB world trials

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a return will be Italy’s European

bronze medallist Yeman Crippa,

who was third here last year.

Norway’s former European

marathon record-holder Sondre

Moen should improve on his PB of

28:15.12. Others looking to feature

highly will be former European

cross-country champions Ali and

Aras Kaya of Turkey, Italy’s Said El

Otmani and Belgium’s Soufiane

Bouchikhi.

The in-form Nick Goolab heads

Britain’s team after clocking 28:22

on the road this year and he is

making his debut at the distance

on the track.

Former European 10,000m silver

medallist Chris Thompson will

not be wearing a GB vest but will

expect to be challenging for the top

domestic places.

GB’s team chances as they take

on defending champions Spain

have been hit by the withdrawals

of Dewi Griffiths and Marc Scott,

but Jack Gray and Andy Heyes take

their places, while Ben Connor, Matt

Leach and Adam Hickey complete

MARK SHEARMAN

JESS JUDD, who won bronze in

these championships two years

ago, leads a British team of 22 for

these biennial championships.

The Loughborough athlete

goes again in the 5000m and has

begun her season well with a PB

of 15:31.64.

Another hoping for medals

will be discus thrower Greg

Thompson, who has thrown the

Worlds qualifying distance with

his 65.56m this year. He will be

joined in that event by World

Championships representative

Nick Percy.

Commonwealth Games fifth-

placer Taylor Campbell is another

thrower who will be hoping to

make the podium.

Jenny Nesbitt, who was fifth two

years ago in the 10,000m makes

her return in the same event.

Internationally, among the top

athletes are Canadian shot putter

Brittany Crew, who was sixth in

the 2017 World Championships,

Germany’s 5.71m vaulter Torben

Blech and Italy’s European U23

400m hurdles champion Ayomide

Folorunso.

Great Britain team

Men 100: Adam Thomas. 200: Jordan

Broome. 1500: Michael Wilson. 110H:

Miguel Perera, Khai Riley-La Borde.

3000SC: Mark Pearce. HJ: William

Grimsey. LJ: Samuel Khogali, Jack

Roach. HT: Taylor Campbell, Joseph Ellis.

DT: Nicholas Percy, Gregory Thompson.

Dec: Harry Maslen

Women 800: Mari Smith. 1500: Dani

Chattenton. 5000: Jessica Judd. 10,000:

Jenny Nesbitt. 100H: Jessica Hunter.

Half-marathon: Rebecca Murray.

Hept: Emma Nwofor, Lucy Turner

British students face

Italian job in Naples

WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES, NAPLES, JULY 8-13

Taylor

Camphell:

World

University

Games

goal

Steph Twell: racing 10,000m on the

track for only the second time

Highgate Harriers again

welcome the endurance

world to Hampstead

Heath this Saturday

MARK SHEARMAN

Great Britain team

Men: Ben Connor, Nick Goolab, Jack

Gray, Andy Heyes, Adam Hickey, Matt

Leach

Women: Charlotte Arter, Sarah Inglis,

Eilish McColgan, Verity Ockenden,

Mhairi Maclennan, Alice Wright

the team. The Doha selection

standard of 27:40 will be a tough

proposition, though.

Eight races are scheduled, with

a live Q&A with Liz McColgan, Bram

Som and Andy Vernon just before

the championship races (see the

timetable below).

Jess Judd:

bronze over

5000m in

2017