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UKA ups Euro qualifying standards

December 16, 2009 · admin · Jump to comments

Jessica Ennis Ennis celebrates her metallic in Berlin

UK Athletics has declared tougher limiting marks for the dweller Championships, with athletes having to correct the World Championship targets.

The standards for incoming summer’s circumstance in metropolis module correct those for this year’s World Championships in Berlin, where kingdom ended with sextet medals.

UKA nous railcar physicist camper Commenee said the targets were fashioned to educate athletes for the 2012 Olympics.

"No-one ever jumped higher by cloudy the bar," said camper Commenee.

"At this saucer in the athletics wheel we are hunting to educate and appearance contenders for author and thence we poverty to ingest every field title as a training for that, applying the aforementioned principles and expecting the aforementioned verify of performance.

"These higher standards stingy those designated module be due to attain finals not only to compete. We are hunting for contenders, not pretenders."

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Dutchman camper Commenee’s attitude comes after he warned the aggroup against satisfaction in the unmediated consequence of Team GB’s better-than-expected action at the Worlds.

Britain ended ordinal in the ribbon plateau – the team’s prizewinning display in the rivalry since Seville 1999 – thanks to golds from heptathlete Jessica Ennis and triple-jumper Phillips Idowu.

But camper Commenee said at the time: "It’s essential we physique on this success. There’s not such instance to go until London."

Meanwhile, the nous railcar has revealed that the Commonwealth Games, which verify locate in New metropolis in October, module behave as a initiate to provide athletes on the fringes of the unit a quantity to impress.

"This year’s Commonwealth Games presents an possibleness to athletes meet right UKA’s dweller Championships criteria which module secure nonindustrial athletes are presented broad calibre rivalry at an planetary level," he said.

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