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Nominations are open for the Canary Wharf Sports Awards honouring the best talent in the area.

Categories this year are the Individual Achievement Award, Senior Team of the Year, Junior Team of the Year, Group of the Year and the Voluntary Commitment Award, while the outstanding sportsperson will be named Sports Personality of the 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.

The 10th annual Canary Wharf Sports Awards served up a reminder of the wealth of talent in the area and handed the top accolade to one of the country's top young tennis players.

Lucas Taylor, ranked GB number one at under-13 level, was named Canary Wharf Sports Personality of the Year at a ceremony in the East Wintergarden last Thursday evening.

Perri Shakes Drayton has added her voice to the campaign for West Ham to be allowed to take over the 2012 Olympic Stadium.

With the decision on who will be the stadium's main tenant due to be made, Tower Hamlets' runner Shakes Drayton is adamant the running track must be kept in place to secure the venue's athletics' legacy.

She's a rising star of British athletics but her sporting promise was recognised a long time ago in Canary Wharf.

European championship medallist Perri Shakes Drayton was Canary Wharf sports personality of the year in 2005, and she was back at One Canada Square last night to help launch the 2010 Sports Awards.

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.

She's one of British athletics' rising stars and Tower Hamlet's own Perri Shakes Drayton has been tipped as one to watch in 2012.

But the 21-year-old 400m hurdler has her sights set on track success before the London Olympics, starting with the 4x400m relay at the World Indoor Championships in Doha next week.