News28 Jul 2009


World champion Ohuruogu leads 60 strong British squad for Berlin

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Christine Ohuruogu celebrates winning 400m gold (© Getty Images)

World 400m Champion Christine Ohuruogu is among the 60-strong squad of athletes selected to represent the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland Team at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15 – 23 August).

Also heading to the German capital are European Indoor 3000m gold medallist Mo Farah and Olympic High Jump and Triple Jump silver medallists Germaine Mason and Phillips Idowu

Already pre-selected were Paula Radcliffe in the Marathon and UK champion Johanna Jackson in the 20k Race Walk.


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100m: Dwain Chambers, Tyrone Edgar, Simeon Williamson
200m: Chambers; Marlon Devonish, Toby Sandeman
400m: Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney, Robert Tobin
800m: Michael Rimmer
1500m: Andy Baddeley,  Tom Lancashire
5000m: Mo Farah
110mH: Gianni Frankis, Andy Turner
400mH: David Greene, Rhys Williams
 4x100m: Harry Akines–Aryeetey, Devonish, Edgar, Rikki Fifton, Craig Pickering, Williamson
4x400m: Bingham, Chris Clarke, Nigel Levine, Rooney, Tobin, Conrad Williams
High Jump: Germaine Mason
Pole Vault: Luke Cutts, Steve Lewis
Long Jump: Greg Rutherford, Chris Tomlinson
Triple Jump: Larry Achike, Nathan Douglas, Phillips Idowu
Shot:  Carl Myerscough
Javelin: Mervyn Luckwell

WOMEN

200m: Emily Freeman
400m: Christine Ohuruogu, Nicola Sanders
800m: Jenny Meadows, Marilyn Okoro, Jemma Simpson
1500m: Lisa Dobriskey  Charlene Thomas (Wakefield), Stephanie Twell
3000mSC: Helen Clitheroe
Marathon: Paula Radcliffe
20k Race Walk: Joanna Jackson
110mH: Sarah Claxton, Jessica Ennis
400mH: Eilidh Child, Perri Shakes- Drayton
Pole Vault: Kate Dennison
Javelin: Goldie Sayers
Hammer: Zoe Derham
Heptathlon: Ennis; Louise Hazel
4x100m: Emma Ania, Montell Douglas, Jeanette Kwakye, Joice Maduaka, Anyika Onuora, Laura Turner
 4x400m: Vicky Barr, Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet), Ohuruogu, Okoro, Sanders, Shakes- Drayton

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