Two-time Olympian Tom Bosworth is among the five athletes selected by UK Athletics for the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Muscat 22 on 4-5 March.
Bosworth and Cameron Corbishley will both contest the men's 20km race walk in Oman. National record-holder Bosworth, who finished 25th at the Tokyo Olympics last summer and sixth in Rio, was 14th at the last edition of these championships in 2018, while Corbishley will make his debut at a World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships.&nbsp;
Bethan Davies and Heather Lewis will line up in the women&rsquo;s 20km race. Davies claimed Commonwealth bronze in 2018 on the Gold Coast, where Bosworth secured silver.
Over the 35km race walk distance, Dominic King will represent the British team.&nbsp; 
<h2>British team for Muscat</h2>
Women 20km:&nbsp;Bethan Davies, Heather Lewis
Men 20km: Tom Bosworth, Cameron Corbishley 35km:&nbsp;Dominic King

World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships

Tom Bosworth is among the five athletes selected by UK Athletics for the event in Oman.

Five athletes on British team for World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat

World marathon fourth-placer Callum Hawkins and recent trials winners Chris Thompson and Stephanie Davis are among the first seven members of the athletics squad selected to&nbsp;represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Hawkins, who just missed a medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha and the 2017 edition of the event in London, had gained pre-selection in December 2019. Ninth at the Rio Olympics in 2016, he demonstrated current form and fitness having acted as a pacemaker at the M&uuml;ller British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial at Kew Gardens last week.
There Thompson secured his selection as he won the men&rsquo;s marathon in a PB and Olympic qualifying time of 2:10:52, just a few days after becoming a father, while Davis had achieved the qualifying standard with 2:27:40 in Valencia in 2019 and improved that PB to 2:27:16 to win at Kew Gardens.
Ben Connor finished behind Thompson at the trials and gains his Olympic place having set the qualifying standard in 2020 with 2:11:20 in London.
"It&rsquo;s official. My selection for the Olympics has been announced," said Thompson. "Becoming a two-time Olympian and a dad in the space of a week took every ounce of who I am and I couldn&rsquo;t have rode a finer line."
Jess Piasecki and Steph Twell will join Davis in the women&rsquo;s marathon. They did not race at the trials but had impressed with their respective times of 2:25:28 in Florence and 2:26:40 in Frankfurt in 2019. Tokyo will be Twell&rsquo;s third Olympic Games after she made her debut over 1500m in 2008 just a few days after her 19th birthday.
"Dreams really do come true," said Piasecki, who became the third-fastest female in British marathon history with her run in Florence. "Absolutely over the moon to have made it here. Bring on Tokyo."
The&nbsp;2012 European under-23 cross-country champion had been well on target for a Rio Olympic qualifying time when racing in Florence on her debut in 2015 but was forced to drop out at 32km&nbsp;after tearing her plantar fascia.
Kew Gardens also played host to the British Athletics 20km race walk trials which saw 2016 Olympic sixth-placer Tom Bosworth finish second to secure his qualification for Tokyo, having already achieved the qualifying standard at the European Race Walking Cup in 2019 when he posted a time of 1:20:53.
&ldquo;It is a great privilege to be able to welcome the first seven members of the athletics squad for Tokyo into Team GB,&rdquo; said Mark England, Team GB&rsquo;s Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020.
&ldquo;It was clear from watching the coverage of the qualifying event last week, and seeing the emotion felt by each athlete as they crossed the finish line, just how much this selection means to them. The hard work and dedication that goes into securing Olympic qualification is admirable, especially in a year that has come with so many challenges.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to congratulate everyone on their fantastic achievements, and we look forward to welcoming them to Tokyo this summer.&rdquo;
World Athletics
<h3>First selected British team members for Tokyo</h3>
WOMEN Marathon: Stephanie Davis, Jess Piasecki, Steph Twell
MEN Marathon: Ben Connor, Callum Hawkins, Chris Thompson 20km race walk: Tom Bosworth

World marathon fourth-placer Callum Hawkins and recent trials winners Chris Thompson and Stephanie Davis are among the first seven members of the athletics squad selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Britain names first seven team members for Tokyo

In typical fashion for the closest rivalry in athletics, US sprint hurdlers Christina Manning and Sharika Nelvis were tied on points in the IAAF World Indoor Tour standings at the end of the Muller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow on Sunday (25).
Only the tie-break rule could separate the pair. And Manning, who owns the best performance of the duo from the World Indoor Tour, was duly announced the winner of the US$20,000 bonus and wild card for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
Manning got out best in the 60m hurdles final. Nelvis, who stumbled at the start of her heat, was closing in on her compatriot with each flight of barriers but couldn&rsquo;t quite get on level terms. Manning crossed the line in a stadium record of 7.79 with world leader Nelvis taking second place in 7.84.
In any other rivalry, five hundredths would be considered a narrow gap. But for Manning and Nelvis, it&rsquo;s the biggest margin that has separated the pair in all of their 60m hurdles races so far this year.
&ldquo;I came out here for the win,&rdquo; said Manning. &ldquo;I needed the win to claim the tour title and I got it. It&rsquo;s always good to run close to your personal record. I wasn&rsquo;t expecting a fast time like that, but I&rsquo;m glad I got it. I&rsquo;m just going for a medal [at the World Indoors].&rdquo;
In many ways, today&rsquo;s outcome acted as an equaliser. While Manning emerged from Glasgow as the World Indoor Tour winner, Nelvis still owns the world-leading mark with her North American record of 7.70 from the US Indoor Championships.
It sets the scene for a thrilling climax to the indoor season at next week&rsquo;s World Indoor Championships.
<h3>Bosworth breaks world best</h3>
It might be a rarely-contested event, but the world all-time list for the 3000m race walk features so many stars of the discipline that it&rsquo;s clear the world best of 10:31.42 is a quality mark.
But heading into Glasgow, Britain&rsquo;s Tom Bosworth believed it was also breakable.
As has now become customary in his track races, Bosworth dropped the rest of the field fairly early on in the race. He covered the first kilometre in 3:31.54 and the second in a near identical 3:31.95, putting him just outside record schedule.
But he also had two red cards going into the latter stages of the race. &ldquo;That made me concentrate more,&rdquo; Bosworth said afterwards. &ldquo;And that helped me to go faster.&rdquo;
With a final kilometre of 3:26.79, Bosworth crossed the line in 10:30.28 to take more than a second off the world best set by Germany&rsquo;s Andreas Erm in 2001.
&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe it,&rdquo; said Bosworth. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m over the moon to get a world record but I feel sick after that.&rdquo; 
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Tom Bosworth in the 3000m race walk at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Glasgow</div>
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<h3>Su, Ta Lou and Levy&rsquo;s debut</h3>
When double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and two-time world 200m champion Dafne Schippers finished well off the pace in the heats of the women&rsquo;s 60m, spectators were left scratching their heads and assumed the duo were saving something for the final.
But, if anything, the results of the final reaffirmed the marks in the heats. Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast finished a fraction ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, running a stadium record of 7.07 to win by 0.02. The pair had earlier won their heats with respective marks of 7.16 and 7.08.
Thompson, meanwhile, was a stride behind in third, clocking 7.12. Schippers was never truly in contention and was fifth in 7.22. 
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Marie-Josee Ta Lou wins the 60m at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Glasgow</div>
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Su Bingtian did what he needed to do to secure the World Indoor Tour victory in the men&rsquo;s 60m.
The Chinese sprinter didn&rsquo;t have to improve on the Asian record he has lowered twice already this season; instead, a 6.50 clocking &ndash; equalling the Scottish all-comers&rsquo; record &ndash; was sufficient to hold off USA&rsquo;s Mike Rodgers by 0.04. Just five hundredths separated the other six men in the field.
The men&rsquo;s 60m hurdles was won by an athlete who had never competed indoors before today.
Jamaica&rsquo;s Ronald Levy broke through to world-class level last year, winning at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris with 13.05. Given there are no indoor facilities in Jamaica, the 25-year-old had only ever raced outdoors. But, after a clear 7.49 victory in Glasgow, he will now head to the World Indoor Championships with realistic medal ambitions.
Levy started strongly and by the end of the race had a 0.09 winning margin over USA&rsquo;s Aries Merritt. Britain&rsquo;s European indoor champion Andrew Pozzi, undefeated at 60m hurdles since 2014, had to settle for third in 7.60, while US indoor champion Jarret Eaton failed to finish after falling into the third hurdle.
<h3>Swedish record for Sagnia, stadium record for Kerley</h3>
Just one point separated Ivana Spanovic and Sosthene Moguenara in the World Indoor Tour long jump standings ahead of Glasgow. Moguenara finished ahead of Spanovic to take the series victory, but they were both upstaged by Sweden&rsquo;s Khaddi Sagnia. 
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Khaddi Sagnia in the long jump at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Glasgow</div>
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The 23-year-old flew out to an outright lifetime best of 6.92m with her first leap of the competition, equalling the Swedish indoor record set by heptathlon legend Carolina Kluft in 2004 and breaking the Scottish all-comers&rsquo; record. Spanovic responded with 6.81m with the very next leap in the jumping order, then Moguenara improved to 6.83m in round two, but neither could catch Sagnia.
After missing out on a World Indoors team spot at the recent US Indoor Championships, 400m runner Fred Kerley may have felt that he had something to prove in Glasgow. This time he ensured he got to the break first, going through 200m in 21.95, and then maintained his lead to the end.
Kerley crossed the line in a stadium record of 45.86, winning comfortably from Slovenia&rsquo;s Luka Janezic, who clocked 46.29. 
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Fred Kerley in the 400m at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Glasgow</div>
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<h3>Chepkoech dominates, Soget surprises</h3>
Kenya&rsquo;s Beatrice Chepkoech knew that a strong performance in Glasgow could elevate her to the top of the women&rsquo;s 1500m World Indoor Tour standings.
The steeplechase specialist made no mistakes and followed the pacemaker for the first few laps before opening up a significant gap over Ethiopia&rsquo;s Axumawit Embaye in the second half of the race. She crossed the line in 4:02.21 to take two seconds off the Kenyan indoor record she set earlier this year.
A last-lap burn-up in the men&rsquo;s 3000m was a predictable outcome, but few would have expected Kenyan teenager Justus Soget to be the athlete who crossed the line first.
Running against a field that included world indoor champion Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia and USA&rsquo;s Olympic 5000m silver medallist Paul Chelimo, Soget was one of four men who were still in contention at the bell. Chelimo edged into the lead with half a lap remaining, but Soget look the long path round the outside.
Soget stole victory on the line from Chelimo by one hundredth, clocking a Scottish all-comers&rsquo; record of 7:39.09. Kejelcha finished third in 7:39.36 and, in doing so, won the World Indoor Tour.
One of the most familiar sights of this year&rsquo;s World Indoor Tour has been Poland&rsquo;s Adam Kszczot charging around the final bend to win the 800m.
The three-time European indoor champion &ndash; who had already done enough before Glasgow to secure the World Indoor Tour title &ndash; used his trademark tactics to great effect once again, overtaking his opponents in the final 100 metres to win in 1:47.15. He was followed home by compatriot Marcin Lewandowski, 1:47.50, and Britain&rsquo;s Jake Wightman, 1:47.69.
Bethwell Birgen, another regular and consistent performer on the international circuit, timed his finish well to lead a Kenyan 1-2 in the men&rsquo;s 1500m. He and Vincent Kibet held off a spirited challenge from Australia&rsquo;s Ryan Gregson to take the top two spots, running 3:37.76 and 3:37.88 respectively to Gregson&rsquo;s 3:38.00.
<h3>Stefanidi holds on to winning streak &ndash; just</h3>
Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi owns one of the longest active winning streaks in athletics, but it came under serious threat by compatriot Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou.
The world and Olympic champion entered the competition at 4.65m but needed two attempts to succeed. Kiriakopoulou, meanwhile, got over it on her first try to hold the lead going into the next height, 4.75m.
Both women failed their first two attempts. Kiriakopoulou then missed for a third time and exited the competition, but still held the upper hand, leaving Stefanidi with one effort with which to steal back the lead &ndash; and maintain her winning streak.
As she often does in high-pressure situations, Stefanidi responded brilliantly with a clean third attempt. She ended her series with three unsuccessful tries at 4.84m, but seemed happy enough to leave Glasgow with her winning streak still intact.
Stefanidi wasn&rsquo;t the only world champion to extend a winning streak. Maria Lasitskene won the high jump with customary ease, enjoying first-time clearances up to and including 1.95m &ndash; the height at which the last of her competitors, Morgan Lake, exited the competition. Lasitskene failed her three attempts at 2.00m, but her victory was enough to seal the World Indoor Tour winning bonus US$20,000.
China&rsquo;s Shi Yuhao left it late to take the lead in the men&rsquo;s long jump. The recently-crowned Asian indoor champion sailed out to 8.13m, the only eight-metre jump of the competition, to move from fifth to first in the final round. Jamaica&rsquo;s Damar Forbes finished second on countback from China&rsquo;s Huang Changzhou, both with a best of 7.99m.
Elsewhere, USA&rsquo;s Phyllis Francis showed the same finishing strength that carried her to the world title last year, winning the 400m in 52.00. Latvia&rsquo;s Liga Velvere employed similar tactics to take the 800m in a national indoor record of 2:02.01.
Jon Mulkeen for the IAAF

In typical fashion for the closest rivalry in athletics, US sprint hurdlers Christina Manning and Sharika Nelvis were tied on points in the IAAF World Indoor Tour standings at the end of the Muller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow on Sunday (25).

Manning gets upper hand in Glasgow while Bosworth breaks world best

Great Britain&rsquo;s Tom Bosworth says he doesn&rsquo;t need to get faster.
How many top-class athletes have ever said that? Not many, is the likely answer.
But if you race walk 10:58.21 for 3000m and 18:39.47 for 5000m, as Bosworth did in 2016 and 2017 respectively when setting national records to win British titles, it&rsquo;s not so much more speed needed, but endurance to maintain a heady pace for 20 kilometres.
Come August and the IAAF World Championships London 2017 on The Mall, the race walker from Kent will test himself to see if he has built on his tremendous sixth place at the Olympics last year in 1:20:13 that shaved a slice off his own national record.
Bosworth has whittled away more barriers to a potential medal with fourth in the European Cup at Podebrady in May, and second in April&rsquo;s IAAF Race Walking Challenge race in Rio Maior at the beginning of April.
More recently, he set an outdoor British 5000m record of 18:43.28 to win yet another national title, and this weekend he will contest a mile race walk at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London.
The obligatory altitude training and a carefully structured programme from his Leeds Carnegie University base has elevated his chance of a first major podium appearance for a British senior race walker in 43 years, excluding the Commonwealth Games.
Not since Roger Mills race walked to European bronze in a Rome sauna back in 1974 has any Brit returned to the heady days of Olympic success Britain enjoyed throughout the 20th century up to that bronze.
Bosworth thinks he has the means and the mind to produce the &lsquo;one percent&rsquo; needed to take those literal final, crucial steps but offers a caveat to those who imagine him already on the podium.
The 27-year-old agrees home support will be the 12th man in a football side along The Mall, but he&rsquo;s wary of building false hopes.
In fact, the normally amiable race walker was needled by comments after his Olympic effort where he led for the first 12 kilometres.
&ldquo;People won&rsquo;t understand that maintaining that position will still be a huge success,&rdquo; he said.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great that as a country we&rsquo;ve got used to getting so many medals, but someone after Rio asked what position I came, and when I said sixth they said, &lsquo;oh, never mind&rsquo;. I just bit my tongue at that moment and walked away.&rdquo;
For all that, Bosworth believes he has got the mental strength to consign the never-minds to history, and deal with all around him on 13 August and the big day.
&ldquo;I tend to thrive under pressure and expectation,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I like to be nervous, because it means I have the passion to hurt myself.
&ldquo;Without it, I probably wouldn&rsquo;t even finish the race.
&ldquo;I just do my normal routine, and if that goes according to plan, everything else gets shut out, like the cold I had before Rio Maior.
&ldquo;You do the training, and if that&rsquo;s gone well, it&rsquo;s just one more step.
&ldquo;If it hasn&rsquo;t, you focus on the race and try to get through it. In those final moments, you know the work has been done and there&rsquo;s no more you can do.
&ldquo;People can be harsh on social media if you don&rsquo;t perform quite well, but they can also be incredibly supportive &ndash; and that&rsquo;s been a new pressure for me to deal with.&rdquo;
Bosworth says support from coach Andi Drake, his family, and partner Harry Dineley, who accepted Bosworth&rsquo;s proposal on Copacabana Beach after the Olympics, are invaluable, but the &lsquo;one percent&rsquo; extra he gets from an enriched diet that includes spinach smoothies has also made a big difference.
&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong: I really enjoy my food,&rdquo; he says.
&ldquo;My treat after a race is a Chinese takeaway. But I used to go for the five pieces of fruit and veg a day; then made it seven, so I said why not 10 and a full range?
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s mostly iron-rich foods like spinach that I chuck in as well as kale to my smoothies; I always have a salad going in the fridge, and chuck all sorts in my porridge in the morning: it just makes you feel so much better.
&ldquo;I used to take iron supplements, but don&rsquo;t need that now. I use honey rather than sugar, and a range of fruits; milk and other berries disguise it so you don&rsquo;t even taste the spinach &ndash; it&rsquo;s tricking yourself so you don&rsquo;t even taste it &ndash; it&rsquo;s not like munching through a lettuce leaf.&rdquo;
If the diet is the one percent, then the 99% are the hard miles needed to make sure Bosworth is knocking out four-minute kilometres or quicker to be in the medal mix.
He admits a speed session now is something of a rare luxury, and explains why.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got fast enough to where I can get under 19 minutes for 5km &ndash; that&rsquo;s world record pace for 20km. I don&rsquo;t need to get any faster.
&ldquo;I just need to get stronger to maintain the speed.
&ldquo;So 16 minutes for 4km is maybe only one session a week with everything else 10km up to 25km, averaging 7:30 miles throughout, and with the same heart rate when I was doing five minutes per kilometre.
"It makes walking 1:20:00 for a race no longer a surprise.&rdquo;
Bosworth also believes an inauspicious start as a 12-year-old paid dividends.
Somehow, and with all the distractions open to a teenager, he just kept going through the winless wilderness of club races in Kent.
"I was really bad as a junior. No one would have said I would become an Olympian &ndash; not even me.
"Not having that success early has kept me hungry. I&rsquo;ve just kept going.
&ldquo;I remember at the European Cup in 2007 I asked Rob Heffernan (2013 world 50km race walk champion) for his autograph. Now I expect him to buy me a beer at the end of the season.&rdquo;
Paul Warburton for the IAAF

Great Britain’s Tom Bosworth says he doesn’t need to get faster.

Getting stronger, not necessarily faster, is the key for Bosworth

Cold and windy weather in the Slovak spa city of Dudince welcomed the race walkers at the 35th edition of the Dudinska 50, an IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting, on Saturday (19).
The honours in the blue riband 50km event went, for the third time, to Poland&rsquo;s Rafal Augustyn, following his wins in 2010 and 2014.
Mexico's Pan American Games bronze medallist Horacio Nava took the front position from the first kilometre, initially working in cooperation with Serbia&rsquo;s Vladimir Savanovic.
The 34-year-old forged ahead with the aim of improving his best of 3:42:51, and was in front until the 42nd kilometre as Guatemala&rsquo;s Erik Barrondo and the Polish duo of Augustyn and Grzegorz Sudol led the chasers.
After passing 20km in 1:29:24, the gap between leading Nava, with Savanovic on his heels, and the rest of the field was less than a minute.
Savanovic then soon started to lose contact and threw in the towel shortly after 20km. 2010 European silver medallist Sudol did likewise just after 30km.
Augustyn then passed and pulled away from Barrrondo &ndash; who also later dropped out &ndash; the Pole moving up to second in the 34th kilometre before he overhauled Nava eight kilometres from the line.
Having finished second behind Slovakia&rsquo;s world champion Matej Toth 12 months ago in what was then a personal best of 3:43:55, Augustyn improved his best by 33 seconds to 3:43:22 for a record third win in this event.
<h3>Augustyn acheives ambition</h3>
He also won the Polish title for the fourth time and secured his spot on their team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
&ldquo;I am very proud to win this event for the third time because it was very important due to the Olympic qualification today," said Augustyn. "It is a difficult course with so many curves. I know it is the same for everyone but I started to feel my knee after so many turns. With this distance and with so many racers on the track you never know what is going on. I hope to come back next year because everyone loves it here."
Second place went surprisingly to Finland's Alexi Ojala, who showed good tactical sense and came through strongly over the last 10 kilometres, although he was more than three minutes in arrears of Augustyn. He improved his best by more than 10 minutes to 3:46:25.
&ldquo;It was better than I have ever dreamed,&rdquo; said Ojala. &ldquo;It was the best race of my life today. The weather was great for me, not too warm, 10 degrees, and I was happy. My main goal this season was to qualify for Rio, and I did it.&rdquo;
Poland's Adrian Blocki clocked 3:47:16 to take third place. Exhausted, Nava finally came home fifth in 3:47:44. Brazilian 20km record-holder Caio Bonfim, who was sixth over the shorter championship distance at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, was a disappointing 35th in 4:10:04.
In spite of the windy conditions, the top eight finishers went faster than 3:50:00 with another 23 dipping below the four-hour barrier.
Toth, the defending champion and the gold medallist from Beijing, did not start for the first time since 2005 due to a slight leg injury but he was watching in the crowd and commentating.
&ldquo;It is a strange feeling to just watch," said Toth. "I felt nervous before the start just like the competitors. But I hope I will come back next year in great shape to fight for my third title."
<h3>Bosworth breaks 28-year-old British record</h3>
The men's 20km race kicked off with Sweden&rsquo;s Ato Ibanez leading the field in the first four kilometres before Britain&rsquo;s Tom Bosworth took the lead.
Bosworth, attacking the British record, went through halfway in 39:58 with Ibanez 12 seconds behind.
The 26-year-old Briton then proceeded to keep everyone else at arms&rsquo; length before setting a British record of 1:20:41, smashing the previous best of 1:22:03 set back in 1988, two years before Bosworth was born.
Italy&rsquo;s Matteo Giupponi achieved a lifetime best of 1:20:52 in second with Ibanez also going faster than ever before when coming home two seconds later.
Eleonora Giorgi of Italy retained her 20km title from last year, but she was almost two minutes slower than the personal best she set when winning in 2015, clocking 1:28:05.
Fourth in last year&rsquo;s race, Brazil&rsquo;s Erica de Sena improved her South American record to 1:28:22 for second place while Portugal&rsquo;s Ana Cabecinha, fourth in Beijing, was third in 1:29:11.
Among the junior men, nine of 10 competitors improved their personal bests over the 10km distance with the winner Callum Wilkinson of Great Britain clocking 41:36.
Germany's 17-year-old Teresa Zurek was the fastest among junior women, achieving a 10km personal best of 47:25.&nbsp;
Zuzana Trojakova for the IAAF

Cold and windy weather in the Slovak spa city of Dudince welcomed the race walkers at the 35th edition of the Dudinska 50, an IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting, on Saturday (19). 

Augustyn secures Dudince 50km hat-trick while Bosworth and Giorgi win 20km races

Six more athletes clinched automatic selection for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on the second day of the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield, perhaps the most surprising being Adelle Tracey over four laps of the track on Sunday (28).Predictions were that victory in the last event of the afternoon, the women&rsquo;s 800m, would go to Lynsey Sharp or Jenny Meadows, both former European champions. But both finished outside the top two. Meadows, as usual, set the pace (28.65, 59.90 1:31.26), with Sharp at her shoulder and Tracey tucked in behind. Sharp eased ahead on the last back straight, but her lead was short-lived as Tracey, a torch-bearer at the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, took over in the final 40 metres to win in 2:02.99. Leah Barrow came from way back to snatch second place in a personal best of 2:03.18.Another Briton who clinched her place on the plane to Portland was Tiffany Porter, who now has the chance for a third successive World Indoor Championship 60m hurdles medal. After being the fastest in the heats in 8.02, Porter won the final clearly in 7.98, though admitted: &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t finish very well."Second place went to European indoor bronze medallist Serita Solomon in 8.05 while Lucy Hatton, after running 8.03 in her heat, had a poor run in the final and had to be satisfied with third in 8.15.In the women&rsquo;s 1500m, Hannah England also won a ticket for Portland with a win in 4:15.44, though she said she&rsquo;d leave it to her coach to decide if she should make the trip. Stephanie Twell similarly sealed her selection with a win in the 3000m in 8:54.99 and she may be joined by Josephine Moultrie, whose reward for setting the pace was a qualifying standard of her own when finishing second in 8:58.75.Pole vaulter Luke Cutts, the only man over 5.60m, and longer jumper Jazmin Sawyers, who reached an indoor personal best of 6.67m, each won their events well.The latter beat a slightly off-form Lorraine Ugen, with the IAAF World Indoor Tour winner only managing 6.60m for second place. World silver medallist Shara Proctor missed the championships with a sore hip.<h3>Boswoth brings British race walking to the fore </h3>Race walking events are no longer contested at the IAAF World Indoor Championships but Tom Bosworth could make an impact at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 in May. Here, in a solo effort, the former circus performer produced lap after lap in the 3000m race walk between 43.0 and 44.6, passing halfway in 5:31.3. At this point, it became quite clear that he would smash his own national indoor record and world lead of 11:15.81, and urged the already enthusiastic crowd to get even more involved with two laps remaining at the English Institute of Sport. His last circuit was covered in exactly 40.0 for a final time of 10:58.21.&ldquo;I just wanted to come here and entertain and show that it&rsquo;s not just slow people walking round in circles,&rdquo; he said, after a post-finish celebration which was reminiscent of world and Olympic steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi. &ldquo;You want to make it memorable so that people will come back and watch it."The British women&rsquo;s 3000m race walk record was also broken earlier in the day, when Bethan Davies lowered her own figures to 12:44.99. Like Bosworth, she is coached by former UK international Andi Drake.Unlike the walks, the much anticipated men&rsquo;s high jump clash between Robbie Grabarz and new 2.36m-performer Chris Baker proved to be anti-climactic and ended at just 2.29m, which Baker cleared first time for victory. Grabarz, having cleared 2.26m, failed with his first attempt at that height and then opted to take his remaining efforts at 2.31m, but neither he or Baker could clear that height though the former was nearest with his first try. Mark Butler for the IAAF

Six more athletes clinched automatic selection for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on the second day of the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield, perhaps the most surprising being Adelle Tracey over four laps of the track on Sunday (28).

Tracey's upset 800m win highlights day two of British Indoor Championships

Dina Asher-Smith was one of a handful of top performers at the three-day British Championships, which concluded on Sunday (5) in Birmingham, as athletes looked to book their spot on the team for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.The world junior champion scorched to a championship record of 11.08 (0.5m/s) in the 100m as she took her first senior national outdoor title. The British record-holder looked dominant throughout the rounds, which will undoubtedly set her up well for Beijing in August.&ldquo;I have worked really, really hard and am confident about my shape going forward,&rdquo; said Asher-Smith, who clocked 11.28 into a -3.0m/s headwind in the semi-final. &ldquo;It is amazing to have booked my place on the plane. I can now just enjoy the next races before the champs.&rdquo;Bianca Williams finished second in 11.43, having won the 200m title 24 hours earlier in 23.51.There had been a lot of pressure on Chijindu Ujah since he broke the 10-second barrier last summer, but he delivered when it mattered this weekend to win his first British 100m title.Ujah remained focused and got a great start, keeping his cool to move away from the field and take victory in 10.10 (-0.6m/s). European champion James Dasaolu was second in 10.24, just 0.03 ahead of world youth silver medallist Ojie Edoburun.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a tough time &ndash; obviously false starting in Prague (at the European Indoor Championships) &ndash; but I&rsquo;ve learned from that and hopefully this will be a stepping stone towards the World Championships.It was also a weekend to remember for sisters Tiffany Porter and Cindy Ofili, who took gold and silver in the 100m hurdles. European champion Porter duly won, running 12.83 into a -1.5m/s headwind.Ofili, who recently finished second at the NCAA Championships in a PB of 12.60, finished runner-up in 12.96, booking her spot on the team for the World Championships.Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 13.10 in third, 0.04 ahead of European indoor bronze medallist Serita Solomon. European indoor silver medallist Lucy Hatton pulled up after suffering from a back spasm.&ldquo;It was really special to race each other and it is the first time we have in a 100m hurdles race,&rdquo; said Porter of racing her younger sister. &ldquo;She is a great competitor and I&rsquo;m proud how she executed the race today.&rdquo;It took just one jump for Shara Proctor to take the women's long jump title, as she leapt 6.86m (1.4m/s) to defeat a high-quality line up. In a competition hampered by a heavy downpour, Lorraine Ugen finished second with a last-round leap of 6.69m while Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished third with 6.56m in her first long jump competition of the summer.<h3>Records for Pooley and Bosworth</h3>The action on the second day of the championships drew to a close with Isobel Pooley breaking the outdoor British record in the high jump.Pooley was level with world junior champion Morgan Lake with the bar at 1.88m, both athletes enjoying first-time clearances up to and including that height. Pooley then got over 1.91m on her second try as Lake bowed out of the competition.Pooley needed three tries to clear 1.94m, but then popped over 1.97m on her first attempt. It added one centimetre to the national outdoor record she set last year and equalled the outright British record set by Johnson-Thompson earlier this year.&ldquo;I really believe I can jump 2.00m now and that would be a massive breakthrough,&rdquo; said Pooley.The third and final day of action picked up where the second day left off with Tom Bosworth setting the second national record of the weekend.Bosworth won the 5000m race walk by more than a minute, clocking 19:00.73 to take more than 16 seconds off the record he set last year.&ldquo;I wanted to dip under 19 minutes but I&rsquo;m in amazing shape and I&rsquo;m absolutely buzzing for the World Championships,&rdquo; said Bosworth.<h3>Contrasting fortunes for Ohuruogu and Rutherford</h3>Anyika Onuora caused the upset of the weekend as she beat world champion Christine Ohuruogu to win the 400m title in 51.87 to the 2008 Olympic champion&rsquo;s 52.04.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not been an easy transition in the past two years but I guess I&rsquo;ve now found my niche,&rdquo; said Onuora, who has moved up to the 400m from a background at 100m and 200m. &ldquo;Beating the world champion is amazing &ndash; I still look up to her.&rdquo;Another reigning global champion was put under pressure but came away with victory. Greg Rutherford was trailing Dan Bramble at the halfway point of the long jump, but produced a fourth-round leap of 8.11 (-0.6m/s) to take the win by seven centimetres.In the men&rsquo;s 400m, Rabah Yousif and Jarryd Dunn were level coming off the final bend, but Yousif edged ahead down the home straight to win in a lifetime best of 45.01 in far from perfect conditions. Dunn finished second in 45.24 while European champion Martyn Rooney was third.The 200m was won by Zharnel Hughes in 20.42 (0.9m/s), finishing two metres ahead of defending champion Danny Talbot.Laura Muir, winner of the 1500m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo last month, won her first senior national outdoor title. With 800m remaining of the 1500m, Muir threw in a 60-second lap to break away from Laura Weightman. Muir went on to win in 4:10.37, finishing more than four seconds ahead of European bronze medallist Weightman.&ldquo;I knew Laura would be really strong over the last lap so I wanted to use my endurance,&rdquo; said Muir. &ldquo;I knew that I would be only happy with winning and it&rsquo;s my first British outdoor title. It&rsquo;s only my third time competing here &ndash; I was last the first time and second last year so the win was really important today. I want to be pushing the best in the world.&rdquo;European silver medallist Lynsey Sharp secured a gun-to-tape 800m victory to book her spot on the plane to Beijing. The defending champion looked strong in the closing stages, winning by 0.40 in 2:02.40.Eilidh Child romped to victory in the 400m hurdles in 55.67, while training partner Lawrence Clarke was just as comfortable a winner of the 110m hurdles, winning in 13.55.Olympic bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz and 2013 European indoor champion Holly Bleasdale continued their return from injury to win their respective events. Grabarz cleared 2.28m in the high jump while Bradshaw won the pole vault with 4.50m.Elsewhere, Steph Twell also continued to take strides back towards her best form as she won the women's 5000m by three seconds in 15:38.01, covering the final kilometre in 2:51.Sophie Hitchon produced a championship record of 71.10m to win the women's hammer, while Nick Miller won the men's event with his first-round throw of 75.88m, the longest winning distance at the British Championships since 1985.Rachel Wallader won the shot with a PB of 17.42m, the best throw by a Briton since 2000.Jon Mulkeen and British Athletics for the IAAF

Dina Asher-Smith was one of a handful of top performers at the three-day British Championships, which concluded on Sunday (5) in Birmingham, as athletes looked to book their spot on the team for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.