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Dina Asher-Smith: Athletics - women’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m
The headline act on the British team, Asher-Smith won three medals at the 2019 World Championships - including 200m gold - and has her sights firmly set on matching that achievement in Tokyo.
Sam Atkin: Athletics - men’s 10,000m
Based in the United States since moving there as a teenager for his studies, Atkin, now 28, made a huge breakthrough when he moved fifth on the British all-time 10,000m list in December 2020 to qualify for Tokyo.
Niclas Baker: Athletics - men’s 4x400m
Baker smashed his personal best to win the British 400m title this June and secure a first senior international call-up.
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Tom and Emily Ford from their visit to The Grange School to officially open the £6m sports centre in 2019 SIBLINGS who started rowing at The Grange School have been selected for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Tom and Emily Ford are among the 45 rowers selected to feature for Team GB at the delayed Games this summer. Both now represent the Leander club, where they moved to progress their careers as full-time athletes, and it will be their first appearance at an Olympic Games after having represented their country at international level for some time. And the symmetry continues in that they have both been selected in the eights, Tom, 29, in the men s and Emily, 26, in the women s.
LEANDER Club have 23 athletes included in the 45-strong Great Britain squad selected for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The squad, which was announ.