ATHLETICS: Misery as Marlon misses his dream; COVENTRY SPRINTER MAY HAVE TO SETTLE FOR RELAY PLACE.COVENTRY sprinter Marlon Devonish Marlon Devonish (born June 1, 1976 in Coventry, England) is an English sprint athlete. He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. saw his Athens hopes all but disappear as he could only manage fourth place in the final of the 200 metres at the Olympic Trials in Manchester yesterday. Drawn in lane one, the Godiva Harrier ran a strong bend but was unable to hold his position in the home straight as Chris Lambert Chris Lambert (born April 6, 1981) is a sprinter from England. He was a reserve for the British 4 x 100 m relay team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. and Christian Malcolm Christian Sean Malcolm (born June 3, 1979) is a British athlete, specialising in the 200m. Malcolm was born in Newport, South Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds. made sure of the two automatic places in the Olympic team and Dwayne Grant came through to snatch third place in 21.27, a fifth of a second ahead of Devonish. With Sydney silver medallist Darren Campbell For former Reading Midfielder, see . Darren Campbell (born September 12 1973 in Moss Side, Manchester, England) is a retired English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 m and 200 m, as well as the 4 x 100 m relay. forced to pull out of the final after suffering a rib injury in a fall at the end of the 100 metres, the selectors will choose between him and Grant for the discretionary third place in Athens - leaving Devonish, the world indoor champion at 200 metres in 2003, with only the possibility of a place in the 4 x 100 metres relay squad. There was title joy for Godiva's Tina Brown in the inaugural women's 3,000 metres steeplechase championship as she took the gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize in 10 min 13.19 sec, beating her previous best - set in Poland last month - by exactly three seconds and moving her to second place on the all-time British rankings. Coventry University students, twins Dominic and Daniel King scored a one-two in the 5,000 metres walk, the former finishing 35 seconds clear in 20-11.35. Godiva's Glynn Tromans (13-53.74) was less than a second away from the bronze medal in the 5,000 metres as he finished strongly for fourth place behind clear winner Chris Thompson (13-42.10), and there was a fourth place for Rugby & Northampton AC's Rebecca Roles (52.60) in the women's discus behind her sister Philippa who was the winner with 58.57. Rugby's Steve Phillips (7.48) finished fifth in the long jump and clubmate Matthew Twigg (14.77) sixth in the shot, while Leamington's Sara McGreavy (13.75) took fifth place in the women's 100 metres hurdles. CAPTION(S): BEATEN: Marlon Devonish; LONG JUMP WOE: Britain's golden girl Denise Lewis (above) is facing Olympic heartbreak after being forced to limp out of the trials with a recurrence of the foot injury which has plagued her recently |
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