Great Britain team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships named

GREAT Britain have announced a sixty strong team for next month's IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin.

HOPEFUL: British head coach Charles van Commenee believes his team can challenge for medals in Berlin (Getty Images)

Head Coach Charles van Commenee said: “This team has been selected to give us the best possible results at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin. I expect to see athletes demonstrating their ability to perform at the highest level under pressure." 

 However, he admitted  injuries could take their toll on medal ambitions.

“It's probably not the strongest British team of all time,” he added.

"Two years ago in Osaka we won five medals and that should be the aim again for this time. Going backwards is not the direction we want.

"I think it's quite an ambitious goal given the strength of the team we have to be ambitious."

MEN

100m: Dwain Chambers (Belgrave); Tyrone Edgar (Newham & Essex Beagles); Simeon Williamson (Highgate)

200m: Chambers; Marlon Devonish (Coventry Godiva) Toby Sandeman (Thames Valley); 

400m: Michael Bingham (Trafford) Martyn Rooney (Croydon), Robert Tobin (Basingstoke & Mid Hants);

800m: Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton);

1500m: Andy Baddeley (Harrow), Tom Lancashire (Bolton); 



5000m: Mo Farah (Newham & Essex Beagles)



110m hurdles: Gianni Frankis (Newham & Essex Beagles), Andy Turner (Sale)



400m hurdles: David Greene (Swansea), Rhys Williams (Cardiff)

 

4x100m: Harry Akines-Aryeetey (Sutton & District), Devonish, Edgar, Rikki Fifton (Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets), Craig Pickering (Marshall Milton Keynes), Williamson



4x400m: Bingham, Chris Clarke (Marshall Milton Keynes), Nigel Levine (Bedford & County), Rooney, Tobin, Conrad Williams (Kent)



High Jump: Germaine Mason (Birchfield)



Pole Vault: Luke Cutts (Dearnside), Steve Lewis (Newham & Essex Beagles)

Long Jump: Greg Rutherford (Marshall Milton Keynes), Chris Tomlinson (Newham & Essex Beagles);

Triple Jump: Larry Achike (Shaftesbury) Nathan Douglas (Oxford), Phillips Idowu (Belgrave);

Shot:  Carl Myerscough (Blackpool, Wyre &Fylde)



Javelin: Mervyn Luckwell (Marshall Milton Keynes);

WOMEN


200m: Emily Freeman (Wakefield)



400m: Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex Beagles), Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)



800m: Jenny Meadows (Wigan), Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury), Jemma Simpson (Newquay & Par);

1500m: Lisa Dobriskey (Ashford), Charlene Thomas (Wakefield), Stephanie Twell (Aldershot, Farnham & District);

3000m steeplechase: Helen Clitheroe (Preston);

Marathon: Paula Radcliffe (Bedford & County)

20k Race Walk: Joanna Jackson (Redcar)

100m hurdles: Sarah Claxton (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Jessica Ennis (City of Sheffield),

400m hurdles: Eilidh Child (Pitreavie), Perri Shakes- Drayton (Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets);

Pole Vault: Kate Dennison (Sale);

Javelin: Goldie Sayers (Belgrave);

Hammer: Zoe Derham (Birchfield)

Heptathlon: Ennis; Louise Hazel (Birchfield)



4x100m: Emma Ania (Shaftesbruy Barnet), Montell Douglas (Blackheath & Bromley), Jeanette Kwakye (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Joice Maduaka (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Anyika Onuora (Liverpool), Laura Turner (Harrow AC)

4x400m: Vicky Barr (Rugby & Northampton), Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet), Ohuruogu, Okoro, Sanders, Shakes- Drayton,