Action from Day 2 of the British Athletics Championships

Sprinter James Dasaolu ran 9.93 seconds in a wind-assisted men's 100m final to win the battle of the British sprint kings and book a seat on the plane to his second Olympic Games.  The 2014 European 100m champion held off the fast-finishing James Ellington (9.96) and CJ Ujah (9.97) in a final that thrilled the crowd at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham.  Ellington was elated to claim seecond place and an automatic Olympic place.  With the men's 200m runners also in good form this season it bodes well for the relays at both distances.

Earlier Asha Philip won her third British 100m title with Dina Asher-Smith saving herself for the 200m, and Tiffany Porter beat her younger sister Cindy Ofili in the women's 100m hurdles final.

More Olympic places for Andy Butchart and Tom Farrell in the men's 5,000m.   Sophie Hitchon confirmed her place in the hammer, and Holly Bradshaw did the same in the pole vault with a season's best clearance of 4.60m.

Some photos of the action from Day 2 of the 2016 British Athletics Championships sponsored by Muller.

 Dwain Chambers (Belgrave Harriers) running 10.31 in heat 3 of the men's 100m

 Rachel Hunter (Shaftesbury Barnet) who threw 61.37 in the women's hammer

 David Dempsey (City of Sheffield) ran 1:50.51 in men's 1500m heats

 Nicholas Percy (Shaftesbury) winning the men's discus with 60.43m

 Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Harriers) winning heat 2 of the men's 800m in 1:50.77

 Nigel Levine (Windsor, Slough & Eton) and Martyn Rooney (Croydon) in heat 3 of the men's 400m

 Rob Mullett (Lewes) winning the men's 3000m steeplechase in 8:41.67

 Andrew Butchart (Central AC) winning the men's 5000m in 13:44.0

 Tiffany Porter (Woodford Green & Essex) winning the women's 100m hurdles in 12.91

 James Dasoulu (right) winning the men's 100m final ahead of Jamess Ellington (left) and Chijindu Ujah (centre) with times 9.96, 9.97 and 9.93

 James Dasoulu (Croydon) and Asha Philip (Newham Essex Beagles) - winners of the men's and women's 100m

 Rebecca Campsall (City of York) running 11.76 in the women's 100m semi-final

 Karla Drew (City of Sheffield) winning heat 3 of the women's 100m hurdles in 13.39

 Emily Diamond (Bristol & West) winning heat 1 of the women's 400m in 52.87

 Dai Greene (Swansea) second in heat 4 of the men's 400m in 51.16

Eilidh Doyle (Pitreavie AC) winning heat 2 of the women's 400m hurdles in 56.30

Action from the Manchester Great City Games

Some action from the Great City Games in Manchester last night. Thankfully, the rain stayed off long enough to get all the events pretty much completed and there were some good performances for an early season outdoor meet.

Britain’s Greg Rutherford returned from a 3 month training camp in Arizona to win the long jump with a Games record 8.20m.

Dafne Schippers won the women’s 100m in 10.94 well ahead of the rest of the field, while Kim Collins showed a clean pair of heels to the younger runners with a time 10.08 secs, with 60m world indoor champion Trayvon Bromell second, and Britons Chijindu Ujah and Richard Kilty third and fourth respectively.

Tiffany Porter won the 100m hurdles in 12.89 ahead of Lucy Hatton. Britain's David King clipped teh last hurdle and was unlucky to lose out to Ryan Wilson of the United States.

In the women's pole vault, America's Katie Nageotte won with a 4.50m vault.
 

 Lucy Bryan

 Chloe Henry from Belgium

Canada's Anicka Newell

 

 Sally Peake

America's Katie Nageotte

 Greg Rutherford

 Netherland's Ronald Hertog

 Greg Rutherford

 

 J J Jegede

 

Men's 100m T44  L to R: Michail Setis (Greece); Felix Streng (Germany); Jarryd Wallace (USA); Paul Peterson (USA)

 Women's 100m hurdles  L to R:  Isabelle Pedersen (Norway); Serita Solomon; Tiffany Porter; Lucy Hatton

 Men's 100m hurdles  L to R: Andreas Martinsen (Denmark); Ryan Wilson (USA); David King; Rene Mahlmann (Germany)

 

 Women's 100m  L to R: Laura Muller (Germany); Tianna Bartoletta (USA); Dafne Schippers (Netherlands); Cleo Vanburen (USA)

Men's 100m  L to R: Richard Kilty; Kim Collins (St Kitts & Nevis); Trayvon Bromell (USA); Chijindu Ujah

Press call for the Manchester Great City Games

In a move away from the traditional Saturday afternoon session of city athletics, this year's Great City Games in Manchester will be run from 6pm on Friday evening.

This meant that the press call was bumped forward to Thursday, but at least the sun was shining a bit for the athletes as they walked down the still-being-built-mind-the-wet-paint track.

The athletes: Greg Rutherford, Chijindu Ujah, Lucy Hatton, Tiffany Porter, Treyvon Bromell

 The runners: Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba, Zane Robertson

 Kenenisa Bekele and Anthony Crolla swap bling

 Lucy Hatton, Silver at the 2015 European Indoor Championships, 60m hurdles

 Greg Rutherford - Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth long jump champion

 Tiffany Porter - 2014 European Champion at 100m hurdles

 Trayvon Bromell - 2016 World Indoor 60m Champion

 Chijindu Ujah - 2015 British 100m Champion

Kenenisa Bekele - 2004 Olympic 10000m Champion; 2008 Olympic Champion at 5000m and 10000m; 16 times a World Champion

Tirunesh Dibaba - 2008 Olympic Champion at 5000m and 10000m, 2012 Olympic 10000m Champion

Zane Robertson - New Zealand record holder at half-marathon