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A teenage Paralympic table tennis star has been named Canary Wharf Sports Personality of the Year.

Ashley Facey Thompson, who will represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympic Games, won two golds and one silver at the National Disability Table Tennis Championships and led Great Britain to team gold at the Italian and German Opens last year.

Tower Hamlets athlete Perri Shakes Drayton missed qualification for the 400m hurdles final by just one hundredth of a second at the World Athletics Championships.

Shakes Drayton clocked 55.07 seconds in finishing third in her semi-final this morning, only to be pipped as a fastest loser by Ukrainian Anastasya Rabchenyuk, who ran 55.06 secs.

To most of us the Olympic Games is all about the glory as medals are won and records are broken.

But for the athletes vying for the most coveted crown in sport, the journey to the top of the podium is usually a long and arduous one. Christine Ohuruogu knows that journey well, having claimed 400m gold in Beijing in 2008.

Mo Farah and Christine Ohuruogu have both been named in the England squad for the Commonwealth Games.

The Newham & Essex Beagles athletes will both be strong contenders for medals at the Games, which start in Delhi on October 3, with Farah in fine form after breaking the British 5,000m record last week.

Newham's Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu has been left out of Britain's European Championships squad.

Ohuruogu has struggled with a thigh injury and missed the trials in Birmingham, but fellow Newham & Essex Beagles athletes Mo Farah, Lee Merrien and Chris Tomlinson will be competing in Barcelona from July 27.

Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu has been unveiled as the official patron of the 2010 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games.

The 25-year-old Newham & Essex Beagles athlete is lending her support to Europe's largest annual youth sport event, which sees over 47,000 participants from the 33 boroughs competing in 30 different sports.

Chris Tomlinson is Britain's best long-jumper but he knows he will have to be at his absolute peak to be in with a chance of winning a medal at the World Championships later this month.

The Newham & Essex Beagles athlete holds the British record holder at 8.29m and he will have to leap close to that to be in with a shout in Berlin.

Christine Ohuruogu is among a number of Newham & Essex Beagles athletes included in the Great Britain team for next month's World Championships.

The World and Olympic 400m champion has been handed the chance to defend her title in Berlin despite recent injury problems.

Newham and Essex Beagles are one of Britain's best athletics clubs but they are now in a race to attract more people into the sport.

The historic club, based at the Terence McMillan Stadium in Plaistow, lifted the British League title last season and saw golden girl Christine Ohuruogu claim the Olympic 400m title.

STRATFORD’S very own golden girl did it again with a stunning win at the Beijing Olympics.

Christine Ohuruogu won the 400m on Tuesday with a perfectly judged run at the Bird’s Nest stadium.

She clocked an impressive time of 49.62 seconds to beat Jamaica’s Shericka Williams and pre-race favourite Sanya Richards of the USA.

She said: “Everyone dreams about winning but you never think it’s a reality. I’m just so proud. I crossed the line and thought ‘oh my goodness’.