UK to send squad of 67 to Daegu

London, UK - UK Athletics today announced defending World champions Jessica Ennis and Phillips Idowu in a 67-strong squad as part of the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland team for the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea, 27 August – 4 September.

Strongly tipped medal hopes Mo Farah and Dai Greene will also board the plane to Asia along with 2009 Berlin silver and bronze medallists Lisa Dobriskey (1500m) and Jenny Meadows (800m).

Looking to follow on from their success at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, Commonwealth champion Andy Turner, Christian Malcolm and Chris Tomlinson have been selected in the 110m Hurdles, 200m and Long Jump respectively.

There are a number of new faces representing the Aviva GB & NI senior outdoor team for the first time including reigning European Under-23 400m Hurdles champion Jack Green and European Under-23 110m Hurdles bronze medallist Lawrence Clarke. Triple jumper Yamilè Aldama will compete in a Great Britain vest for the first time.

Elsewhere, national champions Dwain Chambers, Goldie Sayers and Jeanette Kwayke, who makes her long-awaited return to international competition after injury, are some of the key names selected for the international show-piece event. The inclusion of sprinter Marlon Devonish marks a record eighth appearance for the Aviva GB & NI team at a World Championships.

Helen Clitheroe, James Shane, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Tiffany Porter and Holly Bleasdale are the pick of the athletes heading into the 13th World Championships in scintillating form.

European indoor champion Clitheroe shaved 24 seconds off her lifetime best over 5000m at the recent Aviva London Grand Prix, while Shane clocked a personal best at the Aviva UK National Championships in the 1500m – the fastest time since Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett won their national titles. Shakes-Drayton, Porter and UK Pole Vault record holder Bleasdale are all ranked inside the world’s top 10 this season.

UKA Head Coach Charles van Commenee said: “This team has been selected to give us the best possible results at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu. I am looking to see an improvement from two years ago in Berlin, where we recorded six medals and 20 top eight finishes.

“It is important to remember there is work to do before London 2012 and Daegu is another stop on the journey to make our athletes run faster, jump higher and throw further. The aim in Daegu is to get more athletes within touching distance of the podium and these World Championships are ideal preparation for what the athletes will encounter next summer and beyond.”

The team will be captained by European silver medallist Christian Malcolm, who made his first appearance in a British vest 15 years ago. The Welsh sprinter was pleasantly surprised by the captaincy: “This is such a great honour, I can’t believe it. It is a proud moment in any sport to captain your country.

“I’ve experienced a lot since the age of 17 and have years of top level sport behind me and you wake up and realise that you might have a lot to offer. I hope I can be there for the team to say the right thing at the right time whether they’ve been disappointed or fulfilled their dream, after all I’ve had experience of both!”

The team will now prepare for the World Championships at the Aviva holding camp in Ulsan in the week leading up to the competition.

Aviva GB & NI Team:

MEN -

100m:

Harry Aikines Aryeetey (Michael Khmel) - Sutton

Dwain Chambers (self-coached) – Belgrave

Marlon Devonish (Dan Pfaff) – Coventry Godiva

200m:

James Ellington (John Powell) – Belgrave

Christian Malcolm (Dan Pfaff) – Cardiff

400m:

Martyn Rooney (Nick Dakin) - Croydon

800m:

Andrew Osagie (Craig Winrow) - Harlow

Michael Rimmer (Norman Poole) - Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton

1500m:

James Shane (Martin Brown) – Newham & Essex

5000m:

Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar) – Newham & Essex

10000m:

Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar) – Newham & Essex

110mH:

Lawrence Clarke (Malcolm Arnold) – Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow

William Sharman (Malcolm Arnold) - Belgrave

Andy Turner (Lloyd Cowan) – Sale

400mH:

Jack Green (Malcolm Arnold) - Kent

Dai Greene (Malcolm Arnold) – Swansea

Nathan Woodward (Nick Dakin) - Tamworth

High Jump:

Martyn Bernard (Dan Pfaff)

Tom Parsons (Fuzz Ahmed) - Birchfield

Pole Vault:

Steve Lewis (Dan Pfaff) – Newham & Essex

Long Jump:

Greg Rutherford (Dan Pfaff) – Marshall Milton Keynes

Chris Tomlinson (Frank Attoh) – Newham & Essex

Triple Jump:

Phillips Idowu (Aston Moore) - Belgrave

Discus:

Abdul Buhari (Mark Wiseman) – Newham & Essex

Brett Morse – Birchfield

Carl Myerscough (self-coached) - Blackpool, Wyre & Fylde

4x100m:

Harry Aikines Aryeetey (Michael Khmel) - Sutton

Marlon Devonish (Dan Pfaff) – Coventry Godiva

James Ellington (John Powell) – Belgrave

Mark Lewis-Francis (Linford Christie) - Birchfield

Christian Malcolm (Dan Pfaff) – Cardiff

Craig Pickering (Michael Khmel) - Marshall Milton Keynes

Danny Talbot (Dan Cossins) - Birchfield

4x400m:

Richard Buck (Steve Fudge) – City of York

Chris Clarke (Nick Dakin) – Marshall Milton Keynes

Jack Green (Malcolm Arnold) - Kent

Dai Greene (Malcolm Arnold) – Swansea

Luke Lennon Ford (Linford Christie) – Birchfield

Nigel Levine (Simon Duberley) - Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow

Martyn Rooney (Nick Dakin) – Croydon

Richard Strachan (Linford Christie) – Trafford

Marathon

Andrew Lemoncello (Greg McMillan) Fife - team

Lee Merrien (John Nuttall) Newham & Essex - team

Dave Webb (Bud Baldaro) Leeds City - team

WOMEN -

100m:

Jeanette Kwakye (Michael Afilaka) - Woodford Green Essex Ladies

Anyika Onuora (Lloyd Cowan) - Liverpool Harriers

Laura Turner (Linford Christie) - Harrow

200m:

Anyika Onuora (Lloyd Cowan) - Liverpool Harriers

400m:

Lee McConnell (Rodger Harkins) - Shaftesbury Barnet

Christine Ohuruogu (Lloyd Cowan) – Newham & Essex

Nicola Sanders (Tony Lester)- Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow

800m:

Emma Jackson (Alan Morris) - City of Stoke

Jenny Meadows (Trevor Painter) – Wigan

Marilyn Okoro (Ayo Falola) – Shaftesbury Barnet

1500m:

Lisa Dobriskey (Ricky Soos) – Ashford

Hannah England (Bud Baldaro) - Oxford

5000m:

Helen Clitheroe (John Nuttall) - Preston

3000mSC:

Barbara Parker (Sean Burris) - Norwich

100mH:

Tiffany Porter (James Henry) – Woodford Green Essex Ladies

400mH:

Eilidh Child (Malcolm Arnold) - Pitreavie

Perri Shakes-Drayton (Chris Zah) - Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets

Pole Vault:

Holly Bleasdale (Julien Raffalli- Ebezant) – Blackburn

Kate Dennison (Scott Simpson) - Sale

Long Jump:

Shara Proctor (Rana Reider) - Birchfield

Triple Jump:

Yamile Aldama (Frank Attoh) – Shaftesbury Barnet

Javelin:

Goldie Sayers (Dan Pfaff) - Belgrave

Hammer:

Sophie Hitchon (Derek Evely) – Blackburn

Heptathlon:

Jessica Ennis (Toni Minichiello) - Sheffield

Louise Hazel (Aston Moore) - Birchfield

20km Race Walk:

Jo Jackson (Andi Drake) – Middlesbrough & Cleveland

4x100m:

Montell Douglas (Ayo Falola) – Blackheath & Bromley

Jeanette Kwakye (Michael Afilaka) Woodford Green & Essex Ladies

Anyika Onuora (Lloyd Cowan) - Liverpool Harriers

Abi Oyepitan (Tony Lester) – Shaftesbury Barnet

Asha Philip (Mike McFarlane) – Newham & Essex

Tiffany Porter (James Henry) – Woodford Green Essex Ladies

Laura Turner (Linford Christie) - Harrow

4x400m:

Eilidh Child (Malcolm Arnold) - Pitreavie

Lee McConnell (Rodger Harkins) - Shaftesbury Barnet

Jenny Meadows (Trevor Painter) – Wigan

Christine Ohuruogu (Lloyd Cowan) – Newham & Essex

Marilyn Okoro (Ayo Falola) – Shaftesbury Barnet

Nadine Okyere (Joe Caines) - Birchfield

Nicola Sanders (Tony Lester) - Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow

Perri Shakes-Drayton (Chris Zah) - Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets

Marathon:

Alyson Dixon (coach: Liz McColgan) - Chester-le-Street- team

Susan Partridge (coach: John Montgomery) - Leeds City- team

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