9th February 2011

Aviva Gb&ni Combined Events Team

9 February 2011

As multi-eventing in the UK experiences an influx of attention thanks to World and European Champion Jessica Ennis and with legends Dean Macey and Daley Thompson still in the minds of sports fans, UKA announces the team which will compete at the U23/U20 Combined Events International to be held at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield on 5-6 March 2011.

Future stars of the sport will contest a French team on the exact same weekend as the senior Aviva GB&NI team will compete at the European Indoors in Paris, providing potential for victory celebrations both at home and across the channel.

Within the men’s U23 team Ashley Bryant (coach: Ian Grant), who set new personal bests in the 60m, 60m hurdles and shot put earlier this season, lines up with Mike Sweeney (coach: Mike Bull) who recorded a personal best heptathlon score of 4907 at the England Athletics U20/Senior Combined Events Championships on 9 January.

Experienced combined events representatives Sophie Skinner (coach: Colin Bovell) and Caryl Granville (coach: Darrell Maynard) head up the women’s U23 team, they finished first and third respectively for U23 age group heptathlon on the McCain Power of Ten rankings for 2010.

2009 World Youth heptathlon champion Katrina Johnson-Thompson (coach: Mike Holmes) is selected in the U20 women’s team following a victory in the three event challenge at the McCain City Challenge in Sheffield on 6 February.

Young gun Joseph Hutchinson (coach: Roger Miller) makes the U20 men’s team following personal best performances in the high jump, pole vault and long jump at the England Athletics U20/Senior Combined Events Championships.                 

 

AVIVA GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND TEAM

MEN

U23

Jack Andrew (Chris Bartram) Sale Harriers

Ashley Bryant (Ian Grant) Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow

Mike Sweeney (Mike Bull) Liverpool Harries

Michael Holden (Emily Parker) Colchester Harriers

U20      

Liam Ramsey (Mike Corden)            

Joseph Hutchinson (Roger Miller) Team Bath          

Curtis Matthews (Unknown)  

Adam Carpenter (Christian North) Shaftesbury Barnet      

               

WOMEN

U23

Sophie Skinner (Colin Bovell) Exeter

Amy Marchant (Tony Minichiello) Leeds City

Caryl Granville (Darrell Maynard) Swansea

Joanna Rowland (Ian Grant) Crawley

 

U20

Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes) Liverpool Harriers

Katy Marchant (Tony Minichiello) Leeds City

Marilyn Nwawulor (Harry King) Harrow

Jazmin Sawyers (Tony Williams) City of Stoke