Running through the rain, Jo Pavey en route to victory at the Great South Run (© Mark Shearman)
UK Athletics (UKA) has announced the selection of a full complement of 15 senior athletes in the Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships to be staged in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday 24 March 2007.
The nine men and six women have all agreed to either attend the acclimatisation camp being established by UKA in Durban, South Africa, or to make alternative thorough preparations mutually agreed between themselves and the governing body to compete in what are generally accepted as the hardest races in the athletics world in 80% humidity and 35° Celsius heat.
The team has an average age of 26.
Men: Alan Buckley (Gateshead Harriers), Mo Farah (Newham and Essex Beagles), Phil Nicholls (Tipton Harriers), Ben Noad (Highgate Harriers), Michael Skinner (Blackheath Harriers Harriers and Bromley AC), Chris Thompson (Aldershot, Farnham and District), Steve Vernon (Stockport Harriers), Jason Ward (Altrincham AC) and Phil Wicks (Belgrave Harriers).
Women: Elle Baker (South London Harriers), Hatti Dean (Hallamshire Harriers Sheffield), Felicity Milton (Durham University), Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers), Kate Reed (Bristol and West AC) and Hayley Yelling (Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow AC).
NB. The men's and women's Junior Trials will be incorporated into the UK Inter-Counties Championships at Nottingham on Saturday 24 February, and a squad will be selected after that date.
