Team GB announce Beijing athletes
Published Date:
14 July 2008
ONLY one man of three has been selected for Great Britain's Olympic 100m team as Team GB await the High Court ruling on Dwain Chambers this week.
The former drugs cheat was unsurprisingly omitted from the list of 47 track and field athletes whose Olympic places were confirmed by the BOA this afternoon.
But UK Athletics will be forced to pick him if a judge grants an injunction against his lifetime Olympic ban at a hearing in London on Thursday.
Wakefield Harrier Emily Freeman leads Great Britain's challenge in the 200m following her win in the Olympic Trials on Sunday.
Track and field athletes selected to compete in Beijing:
Men
100m - Simeon Williamson (Highgate Harriers)
200m - Marlon Devonish (Coventry Godiva); Christian Malcolm (Cardiff AAC); Alex Nelson (Sale Harriers Manchester);
400m - Martyn Rooney (Croydon Harriers); Andrew Steele (Trafford AC)*
800m - Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton Harriers)
1,500m - Andy Baddeley (Harrow AC); Tom Lancashire (Bolton Harriers)
5,000m - Mo Farah (Newham & Essex)
110m hurdles - Andrew Turner (Sale Harriers Manchester)
High Jump - Germaine Mason (unattached); Tom Parsons (Birchfield Harriers)
Pole Vault - Steve Lewis (Newham & Essex)
Long Jump - Greg Rutherford (Marshall Milton Keynes); Chris Tomlinson (Newham & Essex)
Triple Jump - Larry Achike (Shaftesbury Barnet); Nathan Douglas (Oxford City); Phillips Idowu (Belgrave Harriers);
Decathlon - Daniel Awde (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies)
4x100m - Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Belgrave Harriers); Tyrone Edgar (Newham & Essex); Craig Pickering (Marshall Milton Keynes); Simeon Williamson (Highgate Harriers)
4x400m - Michael Bingham (unattached); Richard Buck (City of York)*; Martyn Rooney (Croydon Harriers); Andrew Steele (Trafford AC)*; Rob Tobin (Basingstoke & Mid Hants)
Women
100m - Jeanette Kwayke (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies)
200m - Emily Freeman (Wakefield Harriers)
400m - Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet); Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex); Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)
800m - Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury Barnet)
1,500m - Lisa Dobriskey (Ashford AC)
5,000m - Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers)
10,000m - Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers)
3,000m steeple chase - Helen Clitheroe (Preston Harriers); Barbara Parker (City of Norwich AC)
400m hurdles - Tasha Danvers (Shaftesbury Barnet)
Pole Vault - Kate Dennison (Sale Harriers Manchester)
Long Jump - Jade Johnson (Herne Hill)
Discus - Philippa Roles (Swansea Harriers)
Javelin - Goldie Sayers (Belgrave Harriers)
Heptathlon - Kelly Sotherton (Birchfield Harriers); Julie Hollman (Birchfield Harriers)
4x100m - Emma Ania (Shaftesbury Barnet); Montell Douglas (Blackheath & Bromley); Jeanette Kwayke (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies); Anyika Onuora (Liverpool Harriers); Laura Turner (Harrow AC)
4x400m - Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet); Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex); Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)
* Subject to confirmation of medical fitness by 10:00 on 19th July
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14 July 2008 6:11 PM
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