Race is on for Rotherham's Louise Bloor to prove her fitness in time for Rio Olympics

Bloor has been selected in the Great Britain 4x100m relay squad for Amsterdam and the 31-year-old must prove her fitness after a season riddled with injury.

The 31-year-old has only run once outdoors this year when fading in a 200m heat at the British Championships last month.

But having secured funding on the national relay performance programme, the Rotherham athlete has been entrusted with a place in the squad for Holland where Team GB are favourites to win gold.

Bloor will vie for a place in the quartet alongside Britain’s new crop of speed aces, including Dina Asher-Smith, who became the first British woman to break 11 seconds last year, Asha Phillip, Jodie Williams, Desiree Henry and Daryll Neita.

Yorkshire counterparts Luke Cutts and Lee Emanuel have also been given the nod with pole-vaulter Cutts eager to show his form ahead of travelling to Rio.

The 28-year-old has yet to near his personal best of 5.83m outdoors this season and holds the lowest season-best of all 28 athletes entered in the pole vault, having cleared 5.40m at the British Championships.

French world record holder Renaud Lavillenie has three European gold medals to his name and is favourite to extend his dominance having jumped 12cm higher than anyone else this year.

Emanuel will run in the 1,500m at his first outdoor European Championships after clocking a personal best of 3:36.29 this season. The Sheffield athlete missed out on qualification for the Olympics at the trials, but admitted competing in Rio was off his radar due to fears over the Zika virus.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford headlines the British contingent while 42-year-old Jo Pavey will bid to defend the 10,000m title won in Zürich two years ago.

Asher-Smith will be among the medal favourites in the women’s 200m, while Adam Gemili, James Ellington and Richard Kilty carry British hopes in the men’s 100m showpiece.

Meanwhile, four of Yorkshire’s future prospects have been selected for this month’s World Under-20 Championships in Poland.

Adam Hague (Sheffield) and Charlie Myers (Middlesbrough) have qualified for the pole vault while Leeds’s George Armstrong will compete in the discus.

City of York’s Chelsea Walker is the sole British athlete in the 400m hurdles.