Wakefield's Martyn Bernard and Hallamshire's Hatti Dean have been added to the British team for the Olympic Games after the final selections were made at the weekend.
Bernard teams up in the high jump with Tom Parsons and Germaine Mason, all having cleared the Olympic qualifying mark of 2.30.
A disappointing third place in the trials meant that the Wakefield athlete was left out of the first wave of selection.
It is the first Olympic appearance for the promising 23-year-old who has already won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games, competed at the European Championships and reached the final in the World Championships in Japan last year.
Dean has competed in the World and European Championships in the 3000m steeplechase and teams up with Helen Clitheroe and Barbara Parker.
In a rapidly developing event for women, all three have held the British record this year. Parker broke Dean's mark in May and Clitheroe eclipsed that in the Olympic trials.
Injury forced Dean to miss that event which is why she was missing from the first batch of selections.
Emily Freeman (Wakefield) had already been named in the team for the 200m and Middlesborough's Chris Tomlinson competes in his second Olympics in the long jump.
Richard Buck (City of York) had also been named for the 4x400m relay squad and the outstanding walker from Redcar, Johanna Jackson was an automatic choice for the 20K walk.
Former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell, meanwhile, has confirmed he is fully fit for his showdown with world champion Tyson Gay at the Aviva London Grand Prix on Friday.
The 25-year-old Jamaican star pulled up in his heat at the recent AF Golden League meeting in Rome, prompting fears he may have picked up an injury.
Powell is due to face fellow countryman Usain Bolt – the man who broke his world record – in Stockholm tomorrow.
And he said: "What happened in Rome was just a cramp. It is nothing and will not keep me out of the Grand Prix at Crystal Palace. I resumed my complete training on Monday as if nothing had ever happened.
"Beijing is very close now, so this race is very important ."
Bolt, who set his world record of 9.72 seconds at New York's Reebok Grand Prix, will also be competing at the south London venue – but in the 200m where he returns as the defending champion.
He explained: "Despite the fact I have been mainly running 100m this season, I still see the 200m as my best event."
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