Britain’s Stephanie Twell retains Junior title in Toro (© Hasse Sjögren)
UK Athletics has announced the names of athletes who will take their places as part of the Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland team heading to the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships.
The team will travel to Bydgoszcz, Poland on Saturday 5 July to prepare for the championships, which takes place 8-13 July 2008.
Amongst those selected are World Youth 400m gold medallist Chris Clarke who will compete over 200m and Dave Forrester - top European finisher in the Junior men’s race at the World Cross Country Championships in March who will line up in the 1500m.
From the women, European Cross Country champion Steph Twell will take her place in the 1500m, whilst Ashlee Nelson, the World Youth 100m bronze medallist from 2007 will represent GB in the 100m and 4x100m relay.
Emma Pickles for the IAAF
Norwich Union GB and NI team
Men
100m
James Alaka*
200m
Chris Clarke
Richard Kilty
400m
Nigel Levine
Jordan McGrath
800m
Chris Smith
Rick Ward
1500m
Dave Forrester
James Shane
110mH
Alex Al-Ameen
Edirin Okoro
400mH
Nathan Woodward
High Jump
Matthew Owens
Pole Vault
Scott Huggins
Andrew Marsh
Shot
Jamie Stevenson
Discus
Curtis Griffith Parker
Brett Morse
Hammer
Peter Smith
Decathlon
Daniel Gardiner
4x100m
Alaka
Eugene Ayanful
Junior Ejehu
Kilty
Dele Onifade
Olafunmi Sobodu
4x400m
Clarke
Robert Davis
Levine
McGrath
Louis Persent
Women
100m
Ashlee Nelson
Elaine O’Neill
200m
Shaunna Thompson
800m
Alison Leonard
Lynsey Sharp*
1500m
Emma Pallant
Steph Twell
3000m
Jo Harvey
5000m
Emily Pidgeon
400mH
Meghan Beesley
Pole Vault
Jade Ive
Long Jump
Abigail Irozuru
Discus
Shaunagh Brown
Hammer
Sophie Hitchon
4x100m
Hollie Croxford
Torema Dorsett
Nelson
O‘Neil
Anike Shand Whittingham
Thompson
*Athletes selected subject to fitness
