UK Athletics has right now introduced the primary British athletes to be chosen for this summer season’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon (15-24 July).
5 marathon athletes will characterize Nice Britain and Northern Eire within the males’s and girls’s races that are attributable to happen on the 17th and 18th July respectively.
Olympians Jess Piasecki (coach: Robert Hawkins, membership: Stockport) and Chris Thompson (Aldershot Farnham and District) are amongst these included within the group for Oregon 2022.
Piasecki lately moved to second within the UK all-time girls’s rankings after operating a time of two:22.25 on the Seville marathon, which leaves her behind solely Paula Radcliffe within the standings.
She will probably be joined within the girls’s race by Charlotte Purdue (Nic Bideau, Aldershot Farnham and District) who ran a private finest of two:23.26 on the London Marathon final October. Additionally, Rose Harvey (Phillip Kissi, Clapham Chasers) has earned her spot in her first British group following a PB efficiency of two:27.17 in Seville final month.
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A robust males’s pair
Within the males’s race, 40-year-old Chris Thompson (Aldershot Farnham and District) will compete at his first World Championships. He was the highest British athlete within the males’s 2020 Olympic marathon and he topped the UK rankings final 12 months with a time of two:10.52, which was a lifetime finest.
Welshman Josh Griffiths (Swansea) is called-up for his second World Athletics Championships having additionally competed in 2017. He impressed on the Seville marathon final month as he ran a profession finest of two:11.28.
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Jake Smith didn’t want to be thought of for choice for the lads’s marathon.
Workforce Chief for the World Athletics Championships 2022, Paula Dunn, mentioned,
“We’re actually happy to be saying our first 5 athletes for this summer season’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon. This can be a vital milestone, and I’m delighted to be welcoming these athletes onto the British group to characterize the nation in July.
“We’ve seen some wonderful performances from our marathon runners in latest weeks and months, which led to a very aggressive choice. It’s a nice to have skilled marathon runners on the group, and likewise a brand new face in Rose who will probably be making her debut in a British vest. They’ve all earned their place on the squad, so I want all of them the most effective as they put together for the championships.”
The British marathon athletes chosen for the World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022:
Senior girls
Rose Harvey (Phillip Kissi, Clapham Chasers)
Jess Piasecki (Robert Hawkins, Stockport)
Charlotte Purdue (Nic Bideau, Aldershot Farnham and District)
Senior males
Josh Griffiths (Swansea)
Chris Thompson (Aldershot Farnham and District)
