The British Athletics Cross Problem heads to London on the Worldwide Cross Nation fixture on Saturday, 20 January, with Parliament Hill Fields internet hosting the fourth fixture of the Problem.
In addition to internet hosting the fourth leg of the British Athletics Cross Problem sequence, the occasion will even act as a Trial for the 2 senior races on the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships in Belgrade, happening in March with the primary athlete throughout the road within the senior girls’s and males’s races incomes automated choice.
The senior girls’s race will see a stellar discipline tackle the quick lap circuit across the well-known London venue. European cross nation bronze medallist Abbie Donnelly (coach: Rob Lewis, membership: Lincoln Wellington) is a late entrant to the sector after operating 31:55 over 10km in Valencia final weekend.
She’s going to face a robust discipline, together with fellow European cross-team medallists Amelia Quirk (Mick Woods, Bracknell) and Niamh Bridson Hubbard (Philip O’Dell, Blackheath & Bromley). In the meantime, 1-2 from the Renfrew Cross Problem final weekend, Kirsty Walker (Neil Walker, Edinburgh) and Nancy Scott (Philip O’Dell, Edinburgh), will probably be representing Scotland within the English capital metropolis.
With a number of contenders for the highest prize, different athletes to control embrace Sarah Astin (Goeff Watkin, Belgrave), Jessica Gibbon (Studying) and Alice Goodall (Mark Pollard, Edinburgh), and plenty of extra.
European cross 4th placer Hugo Milner would be the favourite for the senior males’s race. The Derby athlete got here agonisingly near the medals in Brussels final month, and he will probably be chasing one other strong efficiency right here which additionally follows on from his Cross Problem win in Liverpool final November.
Mahamed Mahamed (Idris Hamud, Southampton), a a number of worldwide for GB & NI at cross-country championships over the previous few years, will probably be one other sturdy contender in London. He will probably be racing for the primary time since clocking 2:08:40 on the Valencia Marathon final December.
Alfie Manthorpe (John Wooden, Sheffield & Dearne), who was a part of the senior males’s squad on the Europeans in Belgium, represents the England crew on Saturday alongside fellow GB & NI worldwide James Kingston (Mark Hookway, Tonbridge). In the meantime, Renfrew winner Jamie Crowe (Derek Easton, Central) makes the journey south alongside second place from the Scottish fixture, Scott Stirling (John Pentecost, Falkirk).
As well as, there are qualification spots up for grabs for eligible BUCS (British Universities and Schools Sport) athletes who’re concentrating on choice for GB Groups for the World College Championships in Oman on February seventeenth.
Rowan Miell-Ingram (Wendy Miell-Ingram, Radley) and Sam Mills (Exeter) will probably be two of the principle contenders within the males’s open 4km race which acts because the trial occasion. Each athletes had been a part of the lads’s U20 crew, which received silver in Brussels.
Bethan Morley (Invoice Foster, Leeds) and Khahisa Mhlanga (Andrew Hobdell, Herts Phoenix), who each contributed to crew bronze within the senior combined relay on the European cross, will headline the ladies’s 4km race.
Moreover, the junior and senior races embrace a house worldwide and space crew occasion between England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Eire, North, Midland, South, and East, with 4 athletes in every crew, with the highest three scoring the all-important factors. So, there’s a entire host of alternatives up for grabs in London.
European Cross Nation Championships U20 champion Innes Fitzgerald (Gavin Pavey, Exeter) will signify England within the girls’s junior occasion, the place she is going to face Jess Bailey (Matthew Lengthy, Leven Valley) and Renfrew winner Natasha Phillips (Dundee Hawkhill).
The complete timetable for the London Worldwide Cross Nation timetable:
10.45 U13 Women 3km
11.00 U13 Boys 3km
11.15 Open Ladies’s & BUCS 4km Trial
11.35 U15 Boys 4km
11.55 U15 Women 4km
12.15 Senior Ladies 10km
13.00 Senior Males 10km
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13.40 U20/U17 girls 6km
14.05 U17 Males 6km
14.30 U20 Males 8km
15.00 Open Males’s & BUCS 4km trial