THREE athletes from Blackheath & Bromley Harriers have been selected to represent Great Britain at the world junior championships in Monkton, Canada.

Lorraine Ugen secured her selection as she easily exceeded the qualifying distance in the long jump at the Mannheim International over the weekend, where she jumped 6.35.

Ugen joins second claimer Sophie Hitchon who has already made the team in the hammer and who won her competition with a throw of 65.91, just seven centimetres off her own British record.

Jermaine Olasan was third in the men's long jump with a leap of 7.41 but has missed out on selection.

The third person to make the team is Dan Putnam who is chosen for the 4x400m after a series of impressive individual and relay performances this summer.

At the Resisprint international at La Chaux-de-fonds in Switzerland, Montell Douglas showed she is getting back to form after injury as she timed 11.40 in the 100m.

On the back of this, she has now been selected for the 4x100m at the European championships, which take place in Barcelona from July 27 to August 1.

Blackheath & Bromley's senior women had another tough time in the second round of the UK women's league Premier Division at Manchester.

Up against the top teams in the country, they finished in last place for the second time and with just one match remaining, their stay in the top flight looks short lived.

Highest placers of the day were in the middle distance.

Shavaun Henry set a new club record of 7m14.64s in the 2,000m steeplechase, winning the club’s athlete of the match award in the process.

Bryony Proctor was second in the 3,000 metres in 9m49.98s.

There were a number of third places.

Shaunagh Brown achieved this twice in the shot and discus with throws of 14.60m and 45.18m.

Amy Godsell was third in the 100m with 11.97s, as was Savannah Echel Thompson in the 400m (55.59s).

Elaine Murty improved her best in the 800m to 2m09.64s and veteran Jane Bradshaw had a busy afternoon in the 800m and 1,500m.

In the field, Sarah McGuire threw a season's best of 37.15m in the javelin and Lauren Blackie, Hayley Nouch and Rachel Arnheim scored important points in the jumps.

Four athletes got injured on the day and this gave an opportunity for Shaunagh Brown to run a leg of the 4x100 metre relay.

Maureen Miller came into the team at short notice and ran a season's best in the 400m.

Liz Hughes competed in pole vault and discus despite an injured calf.

Chelsea Crouser moved up to the A string 400m hurdles at short notice and then ran the 200m as well.

The men fared better in their British athletics league Division One match at Sheffield as they finished in third place.

This puts them in third place in the table and with a home match at Norman Park on July 31, there is still a chance of gaining promotion to the Premiership.

James Alaka won both the 100m and 200m races in impressive times of 10.53s and 21.09s, with Femi Owolade first in the 100m and second in 200m B strings.

In the field, Scott Huggins and Ned Quiney both cleared five metres in the pole vault, the first time the club has had two athletes achieve this height at a league fixture.

With a shortage of middle distance runners, decathlete Alex Pope ran in the 3,000m steeplechase as he and Craig Baker covered 11 events between them.

Middle distance runners Alex Bruce Littlewood, Ben Harding and Phil Sesemann doubled up to ensure all events were covered.

This was Harding’s first race in the British league and there were other debuts for Stephen Cavey in the 1,500m and Ben Hopkins in the 400m hurdles.

A string runner in the 400m hurdles was Ed Harrison who looked on for a new best before succumbing the effects of the strong wind and lactic.

He recovered sufficiently, however, to set a new best of 15.24s in the 110m hurdles.

In the field, Andrew Jordon again took third place in the hammer but his distance of 58.90m was outside the world junior qualifying standard he had been hoping for.

Sam Bobb achieved a fine 14.43m in the triple jump and Duayne Bovell defied a foot injury to finish third in the B string.

It was fourth also for Lewis Ely in the high jump.

The club’s athlete of the match award went to Bomene Barikor who set a personal best of 48.30s to win the B string 400m in swashbuckling style, starting off so hard that one spectator asked if he was the pacemaker.

Despite the build up of lactic acid, he held on for victory and also recorded a split of 47.5s in the 4x400m.

Dan Putnam achieved the same time in the relay having run 48.37s in the individua and with Alloy Wilson and Femi Owolade, the quartet recorded an impressive 3m13.80s.

Incredibly this was only good enough for fifth place with less than eight tenths of a second separating the top five teams.

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