Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Group GB Athletics Squad Confirmed for Paris 2024

Stuart Weir despatched this to me about 11 PM native time in Wisconsin with the word, “And also you thought you had been caught up?”. 

Group GB is known as on this piece, and the selectors proceed to go towards the grain and never choose World Athletics invitees to Paris 2024 if they don’t meet British requirements. 

The rationalization from Mr. Buckner is that Group GB did have powerful sufficient requirements. In reviewing the social media, I’ve not discovered one word, except they had been on Group GB workers, supporting the choice that doesn’t put money into any future. 

What do I be taught? Properly, every federation is just a little dysfunctional, however I assumed Group GB had a reasonably good deal with on the foolish stuff for a few years.

I used to be clearly fallacious. 

 

 

TEAM GB ATHLETICS SQUAD CONFIRMED FOR PARIS 2024

GB will take a workforce of 65 athletes to the Paris Olympics. The workforce contains six particular person medallists from final yr’s World Championships: Zharnel Hughes, Josh Kerr, and Ben Pattison; Matt Hudson-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson, and Katarina Johnson-Thompson; and thrilling younger expertise Phoebe Gill (800) and Louie Hinchliffe (100).

When it comes to utilizing their discretionary locations – with solely the primary two at trials routinely chosen – there’s a place for Jake Wightman within the 800m, chosen forward of Elliot Giles. Wightman missed the trials on a medical exemption, whereas Giles was tripped on the house straight when he was in third place. Holly Bradshaw was ailing throughout trials and has been added to the pole vault.  Eilish McColgan, who dropped out of the 10K within the latest European Champs by means of sickness, has been chosen.  Amy Hunt was second within the 100 and third within the 200 at trials however didn’t meet the Olympic customary in both distance, opening the door for  Imani Lansiquot and Bianca Williams.

Phil Norman misses the steeplechase Olympic customary by .15! Invited by World Athletics, British Athletics turned the possibility for Phil to compete in Paris down. Photograph by Getty Photographs for British Athletics

GB administration has caught to its coverage of not accepting invites for athletes who haven’t achieved the Olympic customary, and there have been robust reactions from some athletes.  Phil Norman, who gained the 3000SC at trials however in a time 0.15 seconds outdoors the Olympic customary, posted on Twitter, “I battled each step of the best way on and off the observe and efficiently certified for my second Olympics. Nevertheless, attributable to UKA choice coverage I used to be not chosen, and my invitation declined”. He added that he had appealed with authorized help and help from the Athletes Fee however had been rejected.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JUNE 30: Phil Norman of Group Woodford Inexperienced & Essex Women A reacts after competing in Males’s 3000 Metres Steeplechase on Day Two of UK Athletics Championships 2024 at Manchester Regional Area on June 30, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photograph by Stephen Pond – British Athletics/British Athletics by way of Getty Photographs)

The workforce contains no feminine throwers. Jade Lally, who’s due an Olympic invite in response to her world rating however missed the UK’s qualifying customary by simply 5cm with a discus throw this yr of 63.15m that no different British girl has bettered since 1983, stated: “I’ve to retire due to British Athletics,” Lally stated. “I’m proud to be British … however ashamed to characterize British Athletics. If you’re a British athlete and have already missed out on a championship, I’d 100% encourage anyone to modify to a different nation if that’s an possibility. I’ve wasted a profession making an attempt to show a federation fallacious.”

No girls throwers going to Paris. Jade Lally was .5 cm off qualifying, was invited by World Athletics, and British Athletics denied her probability to go to Paris 2024, photograph by Getty Photographs for British Athletics

The Group GB Athletics workforce for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games (listed within the kind: identify, coach, membership)

Ladies

100m

Dina Asher-Smith (Edrick Floreal, Blackheath and Bromley)

Imani-Lara Lansiquot (Ryan Freckleton, Sutton & District)

Daryll Neita (Marco Airale, Cambridge Harriers)

200m

Dina Asher-Smith (Edrick Floreal, Blackheath and Bromley)

Daryll Neita (Marco Airale, Cambridge Harriers)

Bianca Williams (Linford Christie, Thames Valley)

 400m

Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove)

Laviai Nielsen (Tony Lester, Enfield & Haringey)

Victoria Ohuruogu (Newham and Essex Beagles)

 800m

Phoebe Gill (Deborah Steer, St Albans)

Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh)

Jemma Reekie (Jon Bigg, Kilbarchan)

1500m

Georgia Bell (Trevor Painter, Belgrave)

Laura Muir (Steve Vernon, Dundee Hawkhill)

Revee Walcott-Nolan (Thomas Dreißigacker; Luton)

10,000m

Megan Keith (Ross Cairns, Inverness)

Eilish McColgan (Liz Nuttall, Dundee Hawkhill)

100m Hurdles

Cindy Sember (Chris Johnson, Woodford Inexperienced Essex Women)

400m Hurdles

Jessie Knight (Marina Armstrong, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

Lina Nielsen (Tony Lester, Shaftesbury Barnet)

3000m Steeplechase

Lizzie Hen (Pat McCurry, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Aimee Pratt (Thomas Dreißigacker, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Excessive Bounce

Morgan Lake (Robbie Grabarz, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

Pole Vault

Holly Bradshaw (Kate Rooney, Blackburn)

Molly Caudery (Scott Simpson, Thames Valley)

Heptathlon

Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Aston Moore, Liverpool Harriers)

Jade O’Dowda (John Lane, Newham & Essex Beagles)

 

4x100m Relay Squad (At the least 4 to be chosen)

Dina Asher-Smith (Edrick Floreal, Blackheath and Bromley)

Desiree Henry (Steve Fudge, Enfield & Haringey)

Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood)

Imani-Lara Lansiquot (Ryan Freckleton, Sutton & District)

Daryll Neita (Marco Airale, Cambridge Harriers)

Bianca Williams (Linford Christie, Thames Valley)

4x400m Relay Squad (At the least 4 to be chosen)

Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove)

Yemi Mary John (Alan James, Woodford Inexperienced Essex Women)

Hannah Kelly (Les Corridor, Bolton)

Laviai Nielsen (Tony Lester, Enfield & Haringey)

Victoria Ohuruogu (Newham and Essex Beagles)

Jodie Williams (Stuart McMillan, Herts Phoenix)

Nicole Yeargin (Vince Anderson, Pitreavie)

Marathon

Charlotte Purdue (Nic Bideau, Aldershot Farnham and District)

Rose Harvey (Alistair Cragg, Clapham Chasers)

Calli Hauger-Thackery (Hallamshire)

Males

100m

Jeremiah Azu (Marco Airale, Cardiff)

Louie Hinchliffe (Carl Lewis, Sheffield & Dearne)

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

 200m

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

400m

Charlie Dobson (Leon Baptiste, Colchester)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (Gary Evans, Birchfield Harriers)

800m

Max Burgin (Ian Burgin, Halifax Harriers)

Ben Pattison (Dave Ragan, Basingstoke & Mid-Hants)

Jake Wightman (Geoff Wightman, Edinburgh AC)

Josh Kerr, Ben Pattison, photograph by Getty Photographs, for British Athletics

1500m

Neil Gourley (Stephen Haas, Giffnock North)

Josh Kerr (Danny Mackey, Edinburgh)

George Mills (Thomas Dreißigacker, Brighton Phoenix)

5000m

Sam Atkin (Mike Collins, Lincoln Wellington)

Patrick Dever (Alistair Cragg, Preston)

George Mills (Thomas Dreißigacker, Brighton Phoenix)

10,000m

Patrick Dever (Alistair Cragg, Preston) *topic to affirmation of a qualifying World Rating place

110m Hurdles

Tade Ojora (Joanna Hayes, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

400m Hurdles

Alastair Chalmers (Matt Elias, Guernsey)

Lengthy Bounce

Jacob Fincham-Dukes (Matt Barton, Leeds Metropolis)

Shot Put

Scott Lincoln (Paul Wilson, Metropolis of York)

Discus

Lawrence Okoye (Zane Duquemin, Croydon)

Nicholas Percy (Zane Duquemin, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Males’s 4x100m Relay Squad (At the least 4 to be chosen)

Jeremiah Azu (Marco Airale, Cardiff)

Louie Hinchliffe (Carl Lewis, Sheffield & Dearne)

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Richard Kilty (Gateshead)

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (Ryan Freckleton, Newham & Essex Beagles)

Males’s 4x400m Relay Squad (At the least 4 to be chosen)

Charlie Carvell (Stewart Marshall, Telford AC)

Lewis Davey (Trevor Painter, Newham & Essex Beagles)

Charlie Dobson (Leon Baptiste, Colchester)

Ben Jefferies (Bristol & West)

Toby Harries (David Sadkin, Brighton Phoenix)

Alex Haydock-Wilson (Earl Herbert, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (Gary Evans, Birchfield Harriers)

 

20km Race Stroll

Callum Wilkinson (Robert Heffernan, Enfield & Haringey)

Marathon

Emile Cairess (Renato Canova, Leeds Metropolis)

Mahamed Mahamed (Idris Hamud, Southampton)

Phil Sesemann (Andrew Henderson, Leeds Metropolis)

Combined 4x400m Relay [Men’s and Women’s 4x400m relay athletes eligible for this event]

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