Charlie Purdue
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - the youngest winner of the UK senior World Cross Trial in 20 years - will lead a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011.
The 19-year-old UK junior 10,000m record holder, who dominated the McCain UK Cross Challenge Final, is joined by her Aldershot, Farnham and District team mate Emelia Gorecka (coach: Mick Woods), who heads up the junior women's team after a fifth consecutive McCain UK Cross Challenge victory in Birmingham.
Gorecka - still only 17 - is the reigning European junior bronze medallist and finished 23rd on her international debut at the World Cross 12 months ago. Unbeaten domestically this year, the track specialist is on course for a top 20 finish on the flat, fast terrain expected in Spain.
"The World Cross moves to a bi-annual fixture from 2011 and we were really keen to capitalise on the continued forward momentum of UK endurance running by selecting full teams on this occasion," said Ian Stewart, Aviva GB & NI Team Leader; "although we knew we'd be without a few of our strongest athletes, particularly in the senior races, we felt it was appropriate - and justified - to do so."
AVIVA GB & NI TEAM
SENIOR WOMEN
Julia Bleasdale (self-coached) - Hillingdon; Hatti Dean (Bud Baldaro] - Hallamshire Harriers; Charlotte Purdue (Mick Woods) - AFD; Gemma Steel (Roy Stowell) - Charnwood AC; Stevie Stockton (George Gandy) - Vale Royal; Naomi Taschimowitz (Charlotte Fisher) - Taunton
JUNIOR WOMEN
Beth Carter (Mick Woods) - AFD; Emelia Gorceka (Mick Woods) - AFD; Annabel Gummow (Chris Wooldridge) - Bristol & West; Ruth Haynes (Mick Woods) - AFD; Georgia Peel (Mick Woods) - AFD; Louise Small (Mick Woods) – AFD
(Image of Charlotte Purdue courtesy of
AVIVA GB&NI WORLD CROSS TEAM ANOOUNCED
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - the youngest winner of the UK senior World Cross Trial in 20 years - will lead a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011.
The 19-year-old UK junior 10,000m record holder, who dominated the McCain UK Cross Challenge Final, is joined by her Aldershot, Farnham and District team mate Emelia Gorecka (coach: Mick Woods), who heads up the junior women's team after a fifth consecutive McCain UK Cross Challenge victory in Birmingham.
Gorecka - still only 17 - is the reigning European junior bronze medallist and finished 23rd on her international debut at the World Cross 12 months ago. Unbeaten domestically this year, the track specialist is on course for a top 20 finish on the flat, fast terrain expected in Spain.
"The World Cross moves to a bi-annual fixture from 2011 and we were really keen to capitalise on the continued forward momentum of UK endurance running by selecting full teams on this occasion," said Ian Stewart, Aviva GB & NI Team Leader; "although we knew we'd be without a few of our strongest athletes, particularly in the senior races, we felt it was appropriate - and justified - to do so."
AVIVA GB & NI TEAM
SENIOR WOMEN
Julia Bleasdale (self-coached) - Hillingdon; Hatti Dean (Bud Baldaro] - Hallamshire Harriers; Charlotte Purdue (Mick Woods) - AFD; Gemma Steel (Roy Stowell) - Charnwood AC; Stevie Stockton (George Gandy) - Vale Royal; Naomi Taschimowitz (Charlotte Fisher) - Taunton
JUNIOR WOMEN
Beth Carter (Mick Woods) - AFD; Emelia Gorceka (Mick Woods) - AFD; Annabel Gummow (Chris Wooldridge) - Bristol & West; Ruth Haynes (Mick Woods) - AFD; Georgia Peel (Mick Woods) - AFD; Louise Small (Mick Woods) – AFD
(Image of Charlotte Purdie courtesy of
AVIVA GB&NI WORLD CROSS TEAM ANOOUNCED
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - the youngest winner of the UK senior World Cross Trial in 20 years - will lead a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011.
The 19-year-old UK junior 10,000m record holder, who dominated the McCain UK Cross Challenge Final, is joined by her Aldershot, Farnham and District team mate Emelia Gorecka (coach: Mick Woods), who heads up the junior women's team after a fifth consecutive McCain UK Cross Challenge victory in Birmingham.
Gorecka - still only 17 - is the reigning European junior bronze medallist and finished 23rd on her international debut at the World Cross 12 months ago. Unbeaten domestically this year, the track specialist is on course for a top 20 finish on the flat, fast terrain expected in Spain.
"The World Cross moves to a bi-annual fixture from 2011 and we were really keen to capitalise on the continued forward momentum of UK endurance running by selecting full teams on this occasion," said Ian Stewart, Aviva GB & NI Team Leader; "although we knew we'd be without a few of our strongest athletes, particularly in the senior races, we felt it was appropriate - and justified - to do so."
AVIVA GB & NI TEAM
SENIOR WOMEN
Julia Bleasdale (self-coached) - Hillingdon; Hatti Dean (Bud Baldaro] - Hallamshire Harriers; Charlotte Purdue (Mick Woods) - AFD; Gemma Steel (Roy Stowell) - Charnwood AC; Stevie Stockton (George Gandy) - Vale Royal; Naomi Taschimowitz (Charlotte Fisher) - Taunton
JUNIOR WOMEN
Beth Carter (Mick Woods) - AFD; Emelia Gorceka (Mick Woods) - AFD; Annabel Gummow (Chris Wooldridge) - Bristol & West; Ruth Haynes (Mick Woods) - AFD; Georgia Peel (Mick Woods) - AFD; Louise Small (Mick Woods) – AFD
Image of Charlotte Purdue courtesy of
