Reigning champions Keely Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith headline the squad for Birmingham 2026, although Josh Kerr is not going to be amongst them after constructing his season round Glasgow as an alternative.
A complete of 98 athletes have been chosen to characterize Novuna Nice Britain and Northern Eire on the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, which run from August 10-16.
With the championships making their debut on British soil at Alexander Stadium, choice goals to bolster GB & NI’s place as one among Europe’s main athletics nations, choosing athletes able to difficult for medals whereas additionally offering priceless championship expertise for the following era of observe and discipline expertise.
Hometown hero Matthew Hudson-Smith, a four-time European champion and two-time Paris Olympic medallist, will compete within the 400m, having not too long ago had a short lived stand at Alexander Stadium named in his honour. He’s joined by 2024 European silver medallist Charlie Dobson.
Reigning European champions Keely Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith will each look to defend their titles in Birmingham. Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Amy Hunt joins Asher-Smith in contesting each the 100m and 200m, whereas Daryll Neita, who received silver within the 200m on the 2022 European Championships, will solely compete within the 100m this time round.
Georgia Hunter Bell, the world indoor champion and 2024 European silver medallist within the 1500m, returns aiming for an additional main championship podium. She is joined by Laura Muir, who claimed European 1500m gold in 2022.
Double world champion and Paris Olympic medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson will compete within the heptathlon, alongside Jade O’Dowda, who completed seventh on the 2024 European Championships.
Within the males’s 1500m, world silver medallist Jake Wightman returns alongside 2026 British champion Arlo Ludwick, who is ready to make his senior worldwide debut. Jake Heyward, a silver medallist on the 2022 European Championships, is again in a GB vest after overcoming two injury-hit seasons; he not too long ago recorded the third-fastest British mile time of all time and a brand new Welsh report on the London Diamond League.
European bronze medallist Romell Glave arrives in wonderful kind after securing the British 100m title earlier this summer season and can be joined by Wales’s quickest man and 2025 world indoor champion Jeremiah Azu.
British report holder Zharnel Hughes will compete within the 200m, a self-discipline wherein he received European gold in 2022. The skilled Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and rising expertise Ebuka Nwokeji full the line-up, with Nwokeji set for his senior worldwide debut.
British report holder and 2025 world indoor champion Amber Anning will lead the cost within the girls’s 400m. She is joined by Yemi Mary John, who has damaged 50 seconds this season, and 19-year-old Charlotte Henrich, who has been on an upward trajectory this season and ran a brand new private greatest on her Diamond League debut in London.
Megan Keith returns to championship motion within the 10,000m after successful European bronze in 2024.
Within the discipline occasions, Scott Lincoln will push for the rostrum within the shot put after ending fourth on the World Indoor Championships earlier this season. British report holder Morgan Lake will contest the excessive bounce, whereas Jazmin Sawyers returns to European competitors within the lengthy bounce, having received bronze in Munich in 2022.
The Novuna GB & NI workforce will compete in all occasions, together with the combined 4x100m, which can make its championship debut. The ladies’s 4x100m squad goes in as reigning champions.
Efficiency Director Paula Dunn mentioned: „Congratulations to all of the athletes chosen to characterize the Novuna Nice Britain & Northern Eire workforce at this summer season’s European Championships. To compete at a significant championship is all the time an incredible achievement, and it makes the event much more particular with the occasion going down on house soil at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium, a venue many of those athletes know nicely.
„This workforce displays the power and depth of expertise now we have throughout observe and discipline, bringing collectively established worldwide medallists alongside an thrilling group of rising athletes. Competing in entrance of household, buddies and passionate British followers offers a novel alternative, and one which I do know this workforce will you’ll want to embrace. A house championship means we will showcase the easiest of our sport, encourage the following era and create memorable moments for the nation.
„A giant thanks to the athlete help groups, to each coach, member of the family and good friend who’ve helped all 98 athletes attain the beginning line. And due to the Nationwide Lottery gamers for his or her ongoing help of elite and grassroots athletics on this nation. I’ve each confidence that this workforce will rise to the event and characterize Nice Britain & Northern Eire with nice satisfaction in Birmingham this summer season.“
Dunn additionally addressed the notable absence of Josh Kerr, who as an alternative competes for Scotland on the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow this week: „The European Championships had been by no means a part of Josh Kerr’s 2026 race programme, along with his season being constructed round his profitable world report try and representing Scotland in his house Commonwealth Video games. His intentions had been communicated upfront and we supported his choices round his race programme. We all know he’ll be cheering on his team-mates as they line as much as compete subsequent month.“
The Novuna Nice Britain & Northern Eire workforce for the European Championships, Birmingham, August 10-16
Ladies
100m: Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley), Amy Hunt (Charnwood), Imani-Lara Lansiquot (Sutton and District), Daryll Neita (Cambridge Harriers); 200m: Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley), Success Eduan (Sale Harriers Manchester), Amy Hunt (Charnwood); 400m: Amber Anning (Brighton & Hove AC), Charlotte Henrich (Invicta East Kent), Yemi Mary John (Woodford Inexperienced with Essex Women); 800m: Issy Boffey (Enfield and Haringey AC), Keely Hodgkinson (Leigh Harriers & AC), Jemma Reekie (Kilbarchan AAC), Erin Wallace (Giffnock North AC); 1500m: Georgia Hunter Bell (Belgrave Harriers), Laura Muir (Dundee Hawkhill), Katie Snowden (Herne Hill Harriers); 5000m: Innes FitzGerald (Exeter), Hannah Nuttall (Charnwood AC), India Weir (Thames Valley Harriers); 10,000m: Izzy Fry (Newbury AC), Megan Keith (Inverness Harriers AAC), Poppy Tank (Metropolis of Plymouth, topic to rating); 3000m steeplechase: Stevie Lawrence-Wrist (Croydon Harriers, topic to rating), Elise Thorner (Wells Metropolis Harriers), Sarah Tait (Lasswade AC); 100m hurdles: Emma Nwofor (Thames Valley Harriers), Marcia Sey (Blackheath & Bromley); 400m hurdles: Emily Newnham (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers), Lina Nielsen (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers); Excessive bounce: Morgan Lake (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow AC); Lengthy bounce: Lucy Hadaway (Metropolis of York AC, topic to rating), Molly Palmer (Thames Valley Harriers, topic to rating), Jazmin Sawyers (Metropolis of Stoke AC); Pole vault: Gemma Tutton (Lewes AC, topic to rating); Shot put: Serena Vincent (Metropolis of Portsmouth AC, topic to rating); Discus: Zara Obamakinwa (Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC); Hammer: Charlotte Payne (Newbury AC); Javelin: Freya Jones (Harrow AC, topic to rating); Heptathlon: Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Liverpool Harriers & AC), Jade O’Dowda (Newham & Essex Beagles AC); Marathon: Abbie Donnelly (Lincoln Wellington AC), Natasha Wilson (Micky Morris Racing Staff), Rose Harvey (Clapham Chasers), Clara Evans-Graham (Pontypridd Roadents AC, topic to rating), Louise Small (Aldershot, Farnham And District Athletic Membership, topic to rating)
Relay: 4×100: Mabel Akande (Lincoln Wellington), Kristal Ama-Awuah (Herne Hill Harriers), Aleeya Sibbons (Newnham & Essex Beagles); 4×400: Laviai Nielsen (Enfield & Harringey), Nicole Yeargin (Pitreavie)
All relays will embrace athletes from the person occasions.
Males
100m: Jeremiah Azu (Cardiff Athletics), Romell Glave (Croydon Harriers), Louie Hinchliffe (Metropolis of Sheffield and Dearne AC); 200m: Zharnel Hughes (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers), Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (Newham & Essex Beagles AC), Ebuka Nwokeji (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, topic to rating); 400m: Charlie Dobson (Colchester Harriers AC), Matthew Hudson-Smith (Birchfield Harriers), Ben Jefferies (Bristol and West AC); 800m: Max Burgin (Halifax Harriers), Alex Botterill (Metropolis of York AC), Ben Pattison (Basingstoke & Mid Hants); 1500m: Jake Heyward (Cardiff Athletics), Arlo Ludwick (Herne Hill Harriers), Jake Wightman (Edinburgh AC); 5000m: James West (Tonbridge AC, topic to rating); 10,000m: Scott Beattie (Morpeth Harriers & AC), Joe Wigfield (Wirral AC), David Mullarkey (Leeds Metropolis Athletic Membership); 3000m steeplechase: Will Battershill (Bristol and West AC, topic to rating), Kristian Imroth (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers), Zak Seddon (Bracknell AC); 110m hurdles: Samuel Bennett (Basildon AC, topic to rating), Tade Ojora (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow AC); 400m hurdles: Alastair Chalmers (Guernsey AC), Josh Faulds (Rugby & Northampton AC), Jake Minshull (Coventry Godiva Harriers); Excessive bounce: Joel Clarke-Khan (Thames Valley Harriers), Kimani Jack (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers); Lengthy bounce: Stephen Mackenzie (Edinburgh AC), Archie Yeo (Thames Valley Harriers); Pole vault: Owen Heard (Harrow AC, topic to rating); Shot put: Scott Lincoln (Metropolis of York AC); Discus: Lawrence Okoye (Croydon Harriers); Hammer: Jake Norris (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow AC); Javelin: Benjamin East (Staff Kennet Triathlon & AC, topic to rating); Marathon: Jonny Mellor (Liverpool Harriers AC), Mahamed Mahamed (Southampton AC), Tewelde Menges (Medway and Maidstone AC, topic to rating), Ellis Cross (Leeds Metropolis Athletics Membership, topic to rating); Marathon stroll: Cameron Corbishley (Medway and Maidstone, topic to rating)
Relay: 4×100: Elliot Jones, Nicholas Walsh (Sale Harriers Manchester); 4×400: Toby Harries (Brighton Phoenix), Sam Lunt, Sam Reardon (Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC), Malique Smith-Band, Brodie Younger (Airdrie Harriers)
All relays will embrace athletes from the person occasions.
