Athletics Weekly – July 03, 2019

National event goes back to Manchester due to the redevelopment work at Alexander Stadium

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KRISTAL AWUAH, Morgan Lake,

Finette Agyapong, Jake Norris and

Cameron Chalmers are among

the Brits picked for the European

Under-23 Championships in

Gavle, Sweden, on July 11-14.

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week’s AW

MEN: 100m: Dom Ashwell, Oliver Bromby;

200m: Shemar Boldizsar, Toby Harries;

400m: Cameron Chalmers; 800m:

Spencer Thomas; 1500m: Piers Copeland;

Jake Heyward; 5000m: William Fuller;

Petros Surafel; 10,000m: Emile Cairess;

Mahamed Mahamed; Jake Smith; 110H:

Cameron Fillery; Tade Ojora; James Weaver;

400H: Alex Knibbs; 20km walk: Cameron

Corbishley; Callum Wilkinson; 4x100m:

Ashwell; Bromby; Boldizsar; Kaie Chambers-

Brown; Jona Efoloko; Michael Olsen;

4x400m: Joe Brier; Cameron Chalmers; Ellis

Greatrex; Alex Haydock-Wilson; Alex Knibbs;

Lee Thompson; High jump: Tom Gale; Pole

vault: Adam Hague; Joel Leon Benitez;

Charlie Myers; Long jump: Reynold Banigo;

Jacob Fincham-Dukes; Triple jump: Ade

Mason; Discus: George Armstrong; George

Evans; Javelin: Harry Hughes; Hammer:

Jake Norris

WOMEN: 200m: Finette Agyapong; Kristal

Awuah; 400m: Lily Beckford; 800m: Ellie

Baker; Jemma Reekie; 1500m: Reekie;

5000m: Jodie Judd; Amelia Quirk; 10,000m:

Julia Paternain; 3000mSC: Aimee Pratt;

4x100m: Awuah; Hannah Brier; Shannon

Malone; Melissa Roberts; Alisha Rees;

4x400m: Agyapong; Beckford; Yasmin

Liverpool; Melissa Roberts; Lauren Russell;

Hannah Williams; HJ: Morgan Lake; LJ: Alice

Hopkins; TJw: Naomi Ogbeta; SP: Divine

Oladipo

MEN: 100m: Jeremiah Azu; 400m: Ethan Brown;

800m: Max Burgin, Ben Pattison; 1500m:

Joshua Lay; 5000m: Rory Leonard; 110H:

Josh Zeller; 400H: Alastair Chalmers, Seamus

Derbyshire; 3000mSC: Kristian Imroth; LJ:

Stephen MacKenzie; SP: Lewis Byng; DT: James

Tomlinson; HT: Ben Hawkes; Dec: Jack Turner

WOMEN: 100m: Immanuela Aliu, Amy Hunt;

200m: Georgina Adam; 400m: Amber Anning;

800m: Isabelle Boffey, Keely Hodgkinson;

1500m: Erin Wallace; 5000m: Grace Brock,

Izzy Fry; 400H: Marcey Winter; 3000mSC: Holly

Page; LJ: Holly Mills; SP: Sarah Omoregie; HT:

Charlotte Williams; Hept: Holly Mills

MARK SHEARMAN

THE British Athletics

Championships returns to

Manchester next year for

the first time in 12 years but

not everyone will relish the

prospect.

Organisers have

moved the meeting due

to the redevelopment of

Birmingham’s Alexander

Stadium ahead of the 2022

Commonwealth Games. A

three-year deal has been struck

to hold the event at Sportcity,

which means the north-west

venue will stage the trials for

the 2020 Olympics, 2021 World

Championships and 2022

European Championships.

But fans responded to

AW’s online story about the

venue switch by asking why

Gateshead, London or Glasgow

were not considered.

Also, when the event was

last held at Sportcity in 2005-

07, the AW letters page saw

readers vent their frustration.

“Manchester is a disaster for

spectators,” said long-time

British Athletics Supporters’

Club member Peter White, while

statistician and announcer

Peter Matthews also called

the staging of the national

championships in Manchester

“a disaster”.

When the event returns

to Birmingham, though, the

Alexander Stadium will have

18,000 permanent seats, a

re-laid nine-lane track and a

six-lane warm-up track.

British Champs moves north

Early Euro U20 selections

Brits set for Euro U23 test

BRITISH junior record-holders

Max Burgin, Amy Hunt and

Alastair Chalmers headline

the first round of selections

for the British team heading

to the European Under-

Championships in Borås,

Sweden, from July 18-21.

The final wave of athletes

are named on July 9.

Sarah

Omoregie:

Boras

bound

Jemma Simpson leads Jenny

Meadows and Marilyn Okoro in the

800m final at Manchester in 2007

MARK SHEARMAN