07 July 2010
Super8 2010
will take place at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow tonight with a superb field of competitors
mixing stellar Olympic and World class talent alongside the cream of the crop
of UK domestic talent.
Following
last year’s successful inaugural event at Cardiff International stadium, this
year’s event has further developed with 16 international athletes – two for
each city team – helping to provide a high level of performance during the
evening’s programme.
Team
Captains for the eight city teams hoping to lead their sides to glory include
Aviva European Trials 400m champion Lee McConnell (Glasgow), Olympic 4x100m gold
medallist Mark Lewis Francis (Birmingham) and Olympic 200m finalist Christian
Malcolm (Cardiff).
International
stars taking part include – world high jump leading athlete Chaunte Lowe
(London), World Indoor 60m hurdles champion Lolo Jones (Glasgow), former world and
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kim Collins (Sheffield), Former World and
Olympic sprint hurdles champion Allen Johnson (Birmingham) and Former world
100m champion Lauryn Williams (Cardiff)
Before the
evening’s main programme, a Super8 Schools event will take place for youngsters
in the region, before their medley final takes place during the evening senior
programme.
To follow
the action from the Schools event follow this link
To follow
the Main Super8 event, and for timetable, start lists and results follow this
link
Also, UKA
will be featuring live online audio commentary from tonight’s action using
Ipadio – just visit our Super8 homepage and click on the Ipadio player for the
latest information! Commentary will be live approx 19:15-19:45, 20:00 – 20:30
and 20:45 – 21:15
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