Tuesday, 28 July 2009

World champion Ohuruogu leads 60 strong British squad for Berlin

Christine Ohuruogu celebrates winning 400m gold  (Getty Images)

Christine Ohuruogu celebrates winning 400m gold (Getty Images)

World 400m Champion Christine Ohuruogu is among the 60-strong squad of athletes selected to represent the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland Team at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15 – 23 August).

Also heading to the German capital are European Indoor 3000m gold medallist Mo Farah and Olympic High Jump and Triple Jump silver medallists Germaine Mason and Phillips Idowu

Already pre-selected were Paula Radcliffe in the Marathon and UK champion Johanna Jackson in the 20k Race Walk.


MEN

100m: Dwain Chambers, Tyrone Edgar, Simeon Williamson
200m: Chambers; Marlon Devonish, Toby Sandeman
400m: Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney, Robert Tobin
800m: Michael Rimmer
1500m: Andy Baddeley,  Tom Lancashire
5000m: Mo Farah
110mH: Gianni Frankis, Andy Turner
400mH: David Greene, Rhys Williams
 4x100m: Harry Akines–Aryeetey, Devonish, Edgar, Rikki Fifton, Craig Pickering, Williamson
4x400m: Bingham, Chris Clarke, Nigel Levine, Rooney, Tobin, Conrad Williams
High Jump: Germaine Mason
Pole Vault: Luke Cutts, Steve Lewis
Long Jump: Greg Rutherford, Chris Tomlinson
Triple Jump: Larry Achike, Nathan Douglas, Phillips Idowu
Shot:  Carl Myerscough
Javelin: Mervyn Luckwell

WOMEN

200m: Emily Freeman
400m: Christine Ohuruogu, Nicola Sanders
800m: Jenny Meadows, Marilyn Okoro, Jemma Simpson
1500m: Lisa Dobriskey  Charlene Thomas (Wakefield), Stephanie Twell
3000mSC: Helen Clitheroe
Marathon: Paula Radcliffe
20k Race Walk: Joanna Jackson
110mH: Sarah Claxton, Jessica Ennis
400mH: Eilidh Child, Perri Shakes- Drayton
Pole Vault: Kate Dennison
Javelin: Goldie Sayers
Hammer: Zoe Derham
Heptathlon: Ennis; Louise Hazel
4x100m: Emma Ania, Montell Douglas, Jeanette Kwakye, Joice Maduaka, Anyika Onuora, Laura Turner
 4x400m: Vicky Barr, Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet), Ohuruogu, Okoro, Sanders, Shakes- Drayton