Results tagged “Mo Farah”

Long jumper Chris Tomlinson is taking a leap into the unknown this year - and not just at the Olympics.

The British record holder is aiming for a first medal at the Games this summer but he's also gearing up for the challenge of the birth of his first child. It means a busy year for the Newham & Essex Beagles athlete.

World and European 5,000m champion Mo Farah will replicate his successful preparations of 2011 as he builds up his bid for Olympic glory.

The Newham & Essex Beagles athlete, who is now based in the United States, will start his 2012 build-up with indoor runs at the Aviva Grand Prix events in Glasgow and Birmingham.

Mo Farah is on top of the world after claiming the 5,000m title at the World Athletics Championships with a superb performance.

But the Newham Beagles athlete is not getting carried away about his chances of a repeat at next year's Olympics in London despite his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the sport.

Newham athlete Chris Tomlinson has qualified for the long jump final at the World Championships in Daegu - but only just.

Tomlinson, with his knee heavily strapped, managed a best effort of 8.02m this morning, edging out American Marquise Goodman - who also jumped that distance - on a better series of jumps.

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.

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.

He might have been Britain's golden hero at the European Championships but Mo Farah has already got "back to business".

The 27-year-old Newham & Essex Beagles runner stormed to victory in both the 5,000m and 10,000m in Barcelona earlier this month, but he is already plotting his next medal-winning campaign.

Newham's Mo Farah won Britain's first gold at the European Athletics Championships with a dominant display in the 10,000m.

Farah romped home in a time of 28 minutes, 24.99 seconds to clinch his first European title in Barcelona last night.

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.

Mo Farah has a date with destiny later this month when he tries to break a record that has stood since before he was born.

The Newham and Essex Beagles runner will be attempting to break the British best for the 5,000m when he runs at the Aviva Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on July 24.

Mo Farah is the man to watch in 2009, according to athletics legend Roger Black.

Farah, the Newham and Essex Beagles runner, has started the year in excellent form and hopes to continue in the 3,000m at the European Indoor Championships in Turin this weekend.