NOVUNA GB & NI TEAM SELECTED FOR THE WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN TOKYO

Nice Britain will ship a group of as much as 66 to the World Championships in Tokyo. The fourteen athletes marked with an * have till 1 September to attain the qualifying normal. There’s additionally the likelihood that they may very well be provided an invite by World Athletics primarily based on rating however British Athletics typically declines such invites. Keep in mind too that GB choice coverage is first two at trials with third place on the discretion of the selectors.

Headlines embrace:

Olympic 1500m bronze medalist, Georgia Hunter Bell, who was contemplating doubling up has opted to run the 800 and compete with coaching accomplice, Keely Hodkinson.

It’s nice to see Jazmin Sawyers again after that horrendous harm.

Choice for Tokyo caps a powerful yr for 19-year-old Innes FitzGerald.

Amy Hunt solely made the group for the relay in Paris, a yr later she is chosen for 100, 200 and relay.

This caps an excellent yr for Elise Thorner who ran a steeplechase PR in Oslo.

There’s a first senior out of doors championship choice for Pleasure Eze who was featured in RunBlogRun earlier this yr.

There are 4 athletes within the males’s 1500 as Josh Kerr, as 2023 world champion, will get a wild card.

It’s nice to see the 2022 world champion at 1500, Jake Wightman, chosen after lacking the 2023 Worlds and 2024 Olympics with harm.

Ben Pattison took bronze in Budapest however has had a tough yr, His choice is properly deserved.

It’s unhappy to see Laviai Nielsen, relay medalist in Paris, opting out of choice after a tough season. Asha Philip omitted from the relay squad in Paris is once more omitted; the tip of the street for an athlete who by no means let GB down

The group in format identify(coach, membership) is as follows:

Ladies

100m

Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley)

Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood)

Daryll Neita (Lance Brauman, Cambridge Harriers)

Dina Asher-Smith, August 22, 2024, picture by Diamond League AG

200m

Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley)

Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood)

Daryll Neita (Lance Brauman, Cambridge Harriers)

2228219088 — BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – AUGUST 02: Amy Hunt of Crew Charnwood AC celebrates after successful the Ladies’s 100 Metres Last in the course of the 2025 UK Athletics Championships at Alexander Stadium on August 02, 2025 in Birmingham, England. (Photograph by Alex Livesey – British Athletics/British Athletics by way of Getty Photographs)

400m

Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove)

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

Victoria Ohuruogu (Newham and Essex Beagles)

800m

Georgia Hunter-Bell (Trevor Painter, Belgrave Harriers)

Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh)

Jemma Reekie (Jon Bigg, Kilbarchan)

1500m

Laura Muir (Laura Weightman, Dundee Hawkhill)

Revee Walcott-Nolan (Thomas Dreissigacker, Luton)

Erin Wallace (Trevor Painter, Giffnock North)

5000m

Melissa Nation-Bryant (Rob Denmark, Poole)

Innes FitzGerald (Gavin Pavey, Exeter)

Hannah Nuttall (Helen Clitheroe, Wells Metropolis)

10,000m

Calli Hauger-Thackery (Nick Hauger, Hallamshire)*

Megan Keith (Ross Cairns, Inverness)*

400m Hurdles

Lina Nielsen (Tony Lester, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Emily Newnham (Nick Dakin, Shaftesbury Barnet)

3000m Steeplechase

Elise Thorner (Helen Clitheroe, Wells Metropolis)

Sarah Tait (Linda Smith, Lasswade)*

100m Hurdles

Marcia Sey (Lorna Boothe, Blackheath & Bromley)*

Excessive Leap

Morgan Lake (Yannick Tregaro, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)*

Morgan Lake 1 — Morgan Lake, picture by Getty Photographs for British Athletics, picture 1

Lengthy Leap

Jazmin Sawyers (Aston Moore, Metropolis of Stoke)

Pole Vault

Molly Caudery (Scott Simpson, Thames Valley)

2228201166 — Molly Caudery now’s the WL after her 4.85m bounce at Novuna British Champs, picture by Getty Photographs for British Athletics

Hammer

Anna Buy (Mohamed Ali Saatara, Notts AC)*

Heptathlon

Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Aston Moore, Liverpool)

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

Abigail Pawlett (Ashley Bryant, Trafford) *

Ladies’s 4×100

Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley)

Success Eduan (Anita Richardson, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Pleasure Eze (Michael Donnelly, Gateshead)

Desiree Henry (Linford Christie, Enfield & Haringey)

Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood)

Daryll Neita (Lance Brauman, Cambridge Harriers)

Ladies’s 4×400

Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove)

Hannah Brier (Rhys Williams, Swansea)

Poppy Malik (Grant Barker, Harrow)

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

Victoria Ohuruogu (Newham and Essex Beagles)

Nicole Yeargin (Gregory Sholars, Pitreavie)

Males

100m

Jeremiah Azu (Helen James, Cardiff)

Romell Glave (Michael Afilaka, Croydon)

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Zharnel and fans scaled — Zharnel Hughes and his followers, Novuna British Champs, picture by Getty Photographs for British Athletics

200m

Toby Harries (David Sadkin, Brighton Pheonix)*

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

400m

Charlie Dobson (Leon Baptiste, Colchester)

Matt Hudson-Smith (Gary Evans, Birchfield Harriers)

Samuel Reardon (Nigel Stickings, Blackheath & Bromley)

800m

Max Burgin (Ian Burgin, Halifax Harriers)

Tiarnan Crorken (Andrew Henderson, Preston)

Ben Pattison (Dave Ragan, Basingstoke & Delicate Hants)

1500m

Elliot Giles (Jon Bigg, Birchfield Harriers)

Neil Gourley (Stephen Haas, Giffnock North)

Josh Kerr (Danny Mackey, Edinburgh)

Jake Wightman (John Hartigan, Edinburgh)

5000m

George Mills (Thomas Dreissigacker, Brighton Phoenix)

The Mens 3000m 1 scaled — George Mills, GBR, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, NOR, lead the Males’s 3,000m on March 9, 2025 on the EICH 25, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, picture by European Athletics

3000m Steeplechase

Zak Seddon (Bracknell AC)*

35k Race Stroll

Cameron Corbishley (Andi Drake, Medway & Maidstone) *

400m Hurdles

Alastair Chalmers (Matt Elias, Guernsey)

Seamus Derbyshire (Alex O’Gorman, Metropolis of Stoke)

Tyri Donovan (Marina Armstrong, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

110m Hurdles

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

Marathon

Emile Cairess (Renato Canova, Leeds Metropolis)

Discus

Lawrence Okoye (Zane Duquemin, Croydon)

Nick Percy (Zane Duquermin, Harrow)

Hammer

Jake Norris (Nick Ridgeon, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) *

Shot Put

Scott Lincoln (Dale Stevenson, Metropolis of York) *

Males’s 4×400

Charlie Dobson (Leon Baptiste, Colchester)

Lewis Davey (Trevor Painter, Newham and Essex Beagles)

Toby Harries (David Sadkin, Brighton Pheonix)

Matt Hudson-Smith (Gary Evans, Birchfield Harriers)

Samuel Reardon (Nigel Stickings, Blackheath & Bromley)

Lee Thompson (John Henson, Sheffield & Dearne)

Males’s 4×100

Eugene Amo-Dadzie (Steve Fudge, Woodford Inexperienced Essex Girls)

Jeremiah Azu (Helen James, Cardiff)

Jona Efoloko (Ryan Freckleton, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Romell Glave (Michael Afilaka, Croydon)

Louie Hinchliffe (Richard Kilty, Sheffield & Dearne)

Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet)

*Chosen topic to affirmation of a qualifying world rating place on midnight Saturday 30th August

The combined relay occasion will comprise a mix of the athletes named within the squad.

NOTES:

Laviai Nielsen and Jacob Fincham-Dukes didn’t want to be thought of for choice.

Since 2015, Stuart Weir has written for RunBlogRun. He attends about 20 occasions a yr together with all most world championships and Diamond Leagues. He enjoys discovering the quirky and obscure story.

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