THE bulk of the Great Britain track and field squad for next month's Beijing Olympics has been announced.
Sale Harriers Manchester are well represented in the party for China and there also plenty of other athletes from the region.
The remaining athletes will be named on Saturday.
GB SQUAD FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS
MEN
100m: Simeon Williamson (Highgate Harriers)
200m: Marlon Devonish (Coventry Godiva); Christian Malcolm (Cardiff AAC); Alex Nelson (Sale Harriers Manchester)
400m: Martyn Rooney (Croydon Harriers); Andrew Steele (Trafford AC)*
800m: Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton Harriers)
1,500m: Andy Baddeley (Harrow AC); Tom Lancashire (Bolton Harriers)
5,000m: Mo Farah (Newham & Essex)
110m hurdles: Andrew Turner (Sale Harriers Manchester)
High Jump: Germaine Mason (unattached); Tom Parsons (Birchfield Harriers)
Pole Vault: Steve Lewis (Newham & Essex)
Long Jump: Greg Rutherford (Marshall Milton Keynes); Chris Tomlinson (Newham & Essex)
Triple Jump: Larry Achike (Shaftesbury Barnet); Nathan Douglas (Oxford City); Phillips Idowu (Belgrave Harriers);
Decathlon: Daniel Awde (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies)
4x100m: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Belgrave Harriers); Tyrone Edgar (Newham & Essex); Craig Pickering (Marshall Milton Keynes); Simeon Williamson (Highgate Harriers)
4x400m: Michael Bingham (unattached); Richard Buck (City of York)*; Martyn Rooney (Croydon Harriers); Andrew Steele (Trafford AC)*; Rob Tobin (Basingstoke & Mid Hants)
WOMEN
100m: Jeanette Kwayke (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies)
200m: Emily Freeman (Wakefield Harriers)
400m: Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet); Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex); Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)
800m: Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury Barnet)
1,500m: Lisa Dobriskey (Ashford AC)
5,000m: Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers)
10,000m: Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers); Kate Reed (Bristol & West)
3,000m steeple chase: Helen Clitheroe (Preston Harriers); Barbara Parker (City of Norwich AC)
400m hurdles: Tasha Danvers (Shaftesbury Barnet)
Pole Vault: Kate Dennison (Sale Harriers Manchester)
Long Jump: Jade Johnson (Herne Hill)
Discus: Philippa Roles (Swansea Harriers)
Javelin: Goldie Sayers (Belgrave Harriers)
Heptathlon: Kelly Sotherton (Birchfield Harriers); Julie Hollman (Birchfield Harriers)
4x100m: Emma Ania (Shaftesbury Barnet); Montell Douglas (Blackheath & Bromley); Jeanette Kwayke (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies); Anyika Onuora (Liverpool Harriers); Laura Turner (Harrow AC)
4x400m: Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet); Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex); Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)
* Subject to confirmation of medical fitness by 10:00 on July 19
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