Megan Keith, Hugo Milner and Innes FitzGerald are a part of the GB workforce for December 10 occasion
The British workforce will as soon as once more goal to be topped cross-country working kings and queens of Europe after a powerful squad was named for subsequent month’s European Championships in Brussels.
Megan Keith will go into the occasion within the Belgian capital on December 10 as favorite to win the under-23 title after incomes silver final 12 months behind Nadia Battocletti – the Italian having moved into the senior age group this winter.
Keith’s 53-second profitable margin on the British trials at Sefton Park in Liverpool on Saturday is the biggest-ever victory in a senior race on the trials occasion for the Euro Cross. Paula Radcliffe received by 32 seconds on the trial in Margate in 1998 over a shorter race distance however most trials races are determined by a handful of seconds.
Keith shall be aiming so as to add European cross-country gold to the European under-23 5000m title she claimed in the summertime.
Megan Keith with Abbie Donnelly and Izzy Fry (Graham Smith)
Abbie Donnelly and Jess Warner-Judd, in the meantime, will lead the senior ladies’s workforce in Brussels as Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal of Norway goals to compete a hat-trick of senior ladies’s titles.
Such has been FitzGerald’s dominance of the home cross-country scene recently, it was nearly a shock to see her win by “solely” half a minute at Sefton Park. This was partly as a result of Jess Bailey ran a powerful race to complete runner-up.
Collectively they are going to be aiming to make the rostrum in Brussels – FitzGerald was fourth final 12 months aged 16 – however they’ve a troublesome act to observe because the British under-20 ladies’s workforce led by Steph Twell managed to brush the highest six positions when the Euro Cross was final in Brussels in 2008!
Innes FitzGerald (Gary Mitchell)
Hugo Milner leads the senior males’s hopes in Brussels. There shall be a brand new champion, too, resulting from Jakob Ingebrigtsen deciding to not defend his title following harm.
Milner proved once more at Sefton Park that triathletes are a power to be reckoned with as he beat Matt Stonier and Jack Rowe – though Rowe has not been named within the 40-strong squad. The senior males’s workforce does nonetheless embrace final 12 months’s European under-23 silver medallist Zak Mahamed and miler Callum Elson.
Hugo Milner (Graham Smith)
The highest under-23 man in Sefton Park was Stonier and he’s joined by 2022 European under-20 champion Will Barnicoat because the latter strikes up an age group.
Along with Rowe, the workforce can also be lacking Charles Hicks, the US-based Brit who received the European under-23 title in fashion forward of Mahamed 12 months in the past.
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The under-20 males’s workforce, in the meantime, is led by trials winner Henry Dover.
Within the blended relay, the British trials noticed a fantastic comeback run from Josh Lay following harm and he’s joined by ladies’s trial winner Beth Morley plus Khai Mhlanga and US-based Adam Fogg.
Full workforce
Senior ladies: Niamh Bridson Hubbard; Abbie Donnelly; Izzy Fry; Amelia Quirk; Poppy Tank; Jessica Warner-Judd
Senior males: Callum Elson; Calum Johnson; Zakariya Mahamed; Alfie Manthorpe; Angus McMillan; Hugo Milner
U23 ladies: Megan Keith; Olivia Mason; Lynn McKenna; Alexandra Millard; Eloise Walker; Tia Wilson
U23 males: Will Barnicoat; Matt Stonier; James Kingston; Rory Leonard; Henry McLuckie; Tomer Tarragano
U20 ladies: Jess Bailey; Innes FitzGerald; Zoe Hunter; Moli Lyons; Katie Pye; Lizzie Wellsted
U20 males: Henry Dover; Sam Hodgson; Andrew McGill; Rowan Miell-Ingram; Sam Mills; Louis Small
Senior blended relay: Adam Fogg; Joshua Lay; Khahisa Mhlanga; Bethan Morley
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