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Dobriskey handed Olympics place
Dobriskey handed Olympics place

Lisa Dobriskey will be competing at the Olympics after it was announced that she had been selected to be part of Team GB.

The 28 year old Ashford Athletics Club runner was announced as having joined Kent athletes Jack Green and Adam Gemili at the London Olympics after finishing second in the British Olympic Trials in Birmingham last month.

Dobriskey has had an injury plagued last year, but will now be one of three British runners competing in the 1500 metres.

Kent trampolinist Kat Driscoll should also be confirmed as going to the Olympics in the next few days after she won the latest trial.

The athletes selected to Team GB today are:

Men

Adam Gemili – 100m and 4 x 100m (age: 18, born: London, lives: Dartford)

Dwain Chambers – 100m and 4 x 100m (age: 34, born: London, Lives: London)

James Dasaolu- 100 and 4x100m (age: 24, born: Croydon, lives: Loughborough)

Christian Malcolm- 200m and 4x100m (age: 33, born: Cardiff, lives: Newport)

James Ellington- 200m and 4x100m (age: 26, born: Lewisham, lives: London

Martyn Rooney- 400m and 4x400m (age: 25, born: Croydon, lives: Loughborough)

Conrad Williams- 400m and 4x400m (age: 30, born: Kingston, Jamaica, lives: Hither Green)

Nigel Levine- 400m* and 4x400m (age: 23, born: Bedford, lives: Bedford)

Andrew Osagie- 800m (age: 24, born: Harlow, lives: Twickenham)

Michael Rimmer – 800m (age: 26, born: Southport, lives: Manchester)

Ross Murray- 1500m (age: 22, born: Gateshead, lives: Twickenham

Andrew Baddeley- 1500m (age: 30, born: Merseyside lives: London)

Nick McCormick- 5000m (age:30, born: Newcastle, lives: Loughborough)

Mo Farah- 5,000 and 10,000 (age:28, born: Somalia, lives: Portland, USA)

Chris Thompson – 10,000m (age: 31, born: Barrow-in-Furness, lives Oregon USA)

Stuart Stokes – 3000mSC (age: 35, born: Bolton, lives: Bolton)

Lawrence Clarke- 110mh (age: 22, born: London, lives: Bath)

Andrew Pozzi- 110mh (age: 19, born: Leamington Spa, lives: Bristol)

Andy Turner- 110mh (age: 31, born: Nottingham, lives: Sutton)

Dai Greene- 400mh and 4x400m (age: 26, born: Llanelli, lives: Trowbridge)

Jack Green- 400mh and 4x400m (age: 20, born: Maidstone, lives: Bath)

Rhys Williams – 400mh (age: 28, born: Cardiff, lives: London)

Robbie Grabarz- high jump (age: 24, born: Enfield, lives: Birmingham)

Steve Lewis- pole vault (age: 26, born: Stoke on Trent, lives:London)

Greg Rutherford- long jump (age: 24, born: Milton Keynes, lives: Milton Keynes)

Chris Tomlinson- long jump (age: 30, born: Middlesbrough, lives: London)

Philips Idowu- triple jump (age: 33, born: Hackney, lives: Birmingham)

Mervyn Luckwell – javelin (age: 27, born: Milton Keynes, lives: Loughborough)

Lawrence Okoye- discus (age: 20, born: Croydon, lives Croydon)

Brett Morse – discus (age: 23, born:Cardiff, lives: Penarth)

Abdul Buhari – discus (age: 30, born: Nigeria, lives: London)

Carl Myerscough – Shotput (age: 32, born: Blackpool, lives: USA)

Alex Smith – Hammer (age:24, born: Hull, lives Hull)

Daniel Awde – Decathlon (age: 24, born: Essex, lives Essex)

Dominic King – 50k Walk (age: 29. Born: Colchester. Lives: Colchester)

Danny Talbot – 4x100m (age 21, born: Sailisbury, lives: Trowbridge)

Simeon Williamson – 4x100m (age: 26, born: London, lives: Enfield)

Mark Lewis-Francis – 4x100m (age: 29, born: Birmingham, lives: London)

Richard Buck- 4x400m (age: 25, born: York, lives: Loughborough)

Luke Lennon-Ford – 4x400m (age: 23, born: Sutton Coldfield, lives: London)

Rob Tobin- 4x400m (age: 28, born: Lincoln, lives: Basingstoke)

Women

Abi Oyepitan – 100m and 200m (age: 32, born: London , lives: London)

Anyika Onuora- 100m* and 200m (age: 27, born: Liverpool, lives: London)

Margaret Adeoye- 200m (age: 27, born: London, lives: London)

Christine Ohuruogu- 400m and 4x400m (age: 28, born: London, lives: London)

Shana Cox- 400m and 4x400m (age: 27, born: Brooklyn, USA, lives: London)

Lee McConnell – 400m* and 4x400m (age: 33, born: Glasgow, lives: Glasgow)

Lynsey Sharp – 800m (age: 21, born: Edinburgh, lives: Edinburgh )

Laura Weightman- 1500m (age: 21, born: Alnwick, lives: Leeds)

Lisa Dobriskey- 1500m (age:28, born: Ashford, lives:Loughborough)

Hannah England- 1500m (age: 25, born: Oxford, lives: Birmingham)

Jo Pavey- 5000m and 10,000m (age: 38, born: Exeter, lives: Exeter)

Julia Bleasdale – 5000m* and 10,000m (age: 30, born: Surry, lives: Surrey)

Barbara Parker- 5000m and 3000mSC (age:29, born: King’s Lynn, lives: California, USA)

Eilish McColgan- 3000mSC (age: 21, born: Dundee, lives: Carnousie )

Johanna Jackson 20km walk (age: 27, born: Middlesbrough, lives: Leeds )

Tiffany Porter- 100mh (age: 24, born: Michigan, USA, lives: London)

Perri Shakes-Drayton- 400mh (age: 23, born: London, lives: London)

Eilidh Child- 400mh (age:25, born: Perth, lives: Kinross/Bath)

Holly Bleasdale- pole valut (age: 20, born: Preston, lives: Chorley)

Kate Dennison- pole vault (age:28, born: Durban, SA, lives: Loughborough)

Shara Proctor- long jump (age: 23, born: Anguilla, lives: Atlanta, USA)

Yamile Aldama – triple jump (age: 39, born: Havana, Cuba,lives: London)

Sophie Hitchon- hammer (age: 20, born: Burnley, lives: Loughborough)

Goldie Sayers- javelin (age: 29, born: Newmarket, lives: London)

Jessica Ennis- heptathlon and 100mh (age: 26, born: Sheffield, lives: Sheffield)

Katarina Johnson-Thompson – heptathlon (age: 18, born: Liverpool, lives: Liverpool)

Louise Hazel- heptathlon – heptathlon (age: 26, born: Southwark, lives: Birmingham)

Marilyn Okoro- 4x400m (age: 27, born: London, lives: London)

Nicola Sanders- 4x400m (age: 30, born: High Wycombe,lives: Bourne End)

Emily Diamond – 4x400m (age:21 born: Bristol, lives: Bristol)


 
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