{"id":17774,"date":"2025-07-31T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/uk-athletics-championships-british-stars-target-world-championships-spot-on-bbc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:34:06","slug":"uk-athletics-championships-british-stars-target-world-championships-spot-on-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/uk-athletics-championships-british-stars-target-world-championships-spot-on-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Athletics Championships: British stars target World Championships spot on BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In the sprints, Dina Asher-Smith contests the women’s 200m, with Daryll Neita and Amy Hunt doubling up by adding the 100m.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Azu and Zharnel Hughes are among those aiming for glory in the men’s events, with Louie Hinchliffe focusing his attention on retaining his 100m crown.<\/p>\n

Charlie Dobson is favourite to retain his 400m title in the absence of Hudson-Smith, as is world indoor champion Amber Anning in the women’s event.<\/p>\n

In the field events, high jumper Morgan Lake will seek to continue her good form following her London Diamond League victory, while Molly Caudery is in pole vault action.<\/p>\n

Johnson-Thompson is entered in the 100m hurdles, javelin and shot put as she builds towards her bid for a third world title.<\/p>\n

With the World Para Athletics Championships taking place in New Delhi, India, from 26 September, Kare Adenegan, Zachary Shaw and Sophie Hahn are among the British stars also in action. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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In the sprints, Dina Asher-Smith contests the women’s 200m, with Daryll Neita and Amy Hunt doubling up by adding the 100m. Jeremiah Azu and Zharnel Hughes are among those aiming for glory in the men’s events, with Louie Hinchliffe focusing his attention on retaining his 100m crown. Charlie Dobson is favourite to retain his 400m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17776,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions\/17776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}