Beagles stars in World Championships team

Ohuruogu is joined in the squad by club-mates Mo Farah, Tyrone Edgar, Chris Tomlinson, Steve Lewis and Gianni Frankis.

Farah will be gunning for glory in the 5,000m, although he faces some stiff opposition from a clutch of Ethiopian and Kenyan runners, while Edgar will have a tall order to make an impression in the 100m, where he will come up against the sport's hottest property, Usain Bolt.

Tomlinson will fancy his medal chances in the long jump after producing an 8.21m leap at Crystal Palace last Friday, where he finished second behind former Olympic champion Dwight Phillips.

He is joined in the field events by pole vaulter Lewis, who won a Commonwealth Games bronze medal three years ago.

And for high hurdler Frankis inclusion in the squad is reward for a solid season where the 21-year-old has set a personal best of 13.57 in the event.

Also travelling to Berlin will be Victoria Park and Tower Hamlets athletes Rikki Fifton and Perri Shakes Drayton.

Fifton is in the 4x100m relay squad while Shakes-Drayton will be looking to impress in the 400m hurdles.

The squad is the first to compete at a major championships since last year's Olympic Games in Beijing and with British anticipation about the London Games now building all eyes will be on the crop of promising youngsters.

Head Coach Charles van Commenee said: "This team has been selected to give us the best possible results at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin. I expect to see athletes demonstrating their ability to perform at the highest level under pressure.

"Of course we are on a long term journey to 2012, but we can't wait three years for the medals and performances, I want to see both in Berlin and then more next year and the year after until we get to London. This is our first staging post on our toughest ever journey."

The World Championships will be held in Berlin between August 15-23.

Full squad:

MEN:

100m: Dwain Chambers (Belgrave); Tyrone Edgar (Newham & Essex Beagles); Simeon Williamson (Highgate)

200m: Chambers; Marlon Devonish (Coventry Godiva) Toby Sandeman (Thames Valley);

400m: Michael Bingham (Trafford) Martyn Rooney (Croydon), Robert Tobin (Basingstoke & Mid Hants);

800m: Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton);

1500m: Andy Baddeley (Harrow), Tom Lancashire (Bolton);

5000m: Mo Farah (Newham & Essex Beagles)

110mH: Gianni Frankis (Newham & Essex Beagles), Andy Turner (Sale)

400mH: David Greene (Swansea), Rhys Williams (Cardiff)

4x100m: Harry Akines-Aryeetey (Sutton & District), Devonish, Edgar, Rikki Fifton (Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets), Craig Pickering (Marshall Milton Keynes), Williamson

4x400m: Bingham, Chris Clarke (Marshall Milton Keynes), Nigel Levine (Bedford & County), Rooney, Tobin, Conrad Williams (Kent)

High Jump: Germaine Mason (Birchfield)

Pole Vault: Luke Cutts (Dearnside), Steve Lewis (Newham & Essex Beagles)

Long Jump: Greg Rutherford (Marshall Milton Keynes), Chris Tomlinson (Newham & Essex Beagles);

Triple Jump: Larry Achike (Shaftesbury) Nathan Douglas (Oxford), Phillips Idowu (Belgrave);

Shot: Carl Myerscough (Blackpool, Wyre &Fylde)

Javelin: Mervyn Luckwell (Marshall Milton Keynes);

WOMEN:

200m: Emily Freeman (Wakefield)

400m: Christine Ohuruogu (Newham & Essex Beagles), Nicola Sanders (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)

800m: Jenny Meadows (Wigan), Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury), Jemma Simpson (Newquay & Par);

1500m: Lisa Dobriskey (Ashford), Charlene Thomas (Wakefield), Stephanie Twell (Aldershot, Farnham & District);

3000mSC: Helen Clitheroe (Preston);

Marathon: Paula Radcliffe (Bedford & County)

20k Race Walk: Joanna Jackson (Redcar)

110mH: Sarah Claxton (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Jessica Ennis (City of Sheffield),

400mH: Eilidh Child (Pitreavie), Perri Shakes- Drayton (Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets);

Pole Vault: Kate Dennison (Sale);

Javelin: Goldie Sayers (Belgrave);

Hammer: Zoe Derham (Birchfield)

Heptathlon: Ennis; Louise Hazel (Birchfield)

4x100m: Emma Ania (Shaftesbruy Barnet), Montell Douglas (Blackheath & Bromley), Jeanette Kwakye (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Joice Maduaka (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies), Anyika Onuora (Liverpool), Laura Turner (Harrow AC)

4x400m: Vicky Barr (Rugby & Northampton), Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury Barnet), Ohuruogu, Okoro, Sanders, Shakes- Drayton.