Keely Hodgkinson will face a problem from Georgia Hunter Bell on the World Championships after her Nice Britain team-mate opted to simply compete within the 800m in Tokyo.
Hunter Bell was weighing up whether or not to enter each the 800m and 1500m on the occasion which is being staged in Japan’s capital from 13–21 September.
The 31-year-old not too long ago met with British icon Dame Kelly Holmes, winner of 800m and 1500m golds on the 2004 Olympics, for recommendation on trying a possible double.
Nonetheless, she has chosen to simply race within the 800m after the Nice Britain and Northern Eire introduced their workforce for Tokyo.
Olympic champion Hodgkinson, whose coaching accomplice is Hunter Bell, is the main contender over 800m.
Hodgkinson, 23, returned from over a yr out with a hamstring damage on 16 August with a world lead in Silesia and adopted that up with a assertion win finally week’s Diamond League assembly in Lausanne.
Hunter Bell, who broke the British 1500m report to win Olympic bronze on her debut final summer season, has a private better of 1:56.28 within the 800m.
She shone within the 800m as a junior earlier than quitting the game for 5 years.
Elsewhere, 1500m runner Jake Wightman has been included within the workforce for Tokyo regardless of lacking final month’s trials on the UK Athletics Championships by sickness.
Jazmin Sawyers will compete within the girls’s lengthy soar having returned from a yr out with a ruptured Achilles.
Additionally included within the 66-athlete celebration introduced by UK Athletics are Olympic silver medallist Matt Hudson-Smith, girls’s dash star Dina Asher-Smith and pole vaulter Molly Caudery.
Defending champions Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon) and Josh Kerr (1500m) have have been given wildcards by World Athletics.
