Athletics: Sotherton faces fitness race to Turin.KELLY Sotherton Kelly Jade Sotherton (born 13 November, 1976) is an English heptathlete. Sotherton was born in Newport on the Isle of Wight. As a teenager, she played netball for Hampshire, but also won two English Schools’ championships in the heptathlon. hopes she will be fit to compete in next month's European Indoor Championships in Turin after pulling out of Saturday's Aviva Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. . Sotherton was due to compete against Olympic heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. champion Nataliya Dobrynska in a three-event challenge at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena. But the Commonwealth champion has been told she must rest for several days after having an injection in a heel injury. The 32-year-old Birchfield Harrier has been plagued by injuries this year, missing the Aviva International in Glasgow with a back problem. She won silver in the shot put in the European Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield on Sunday, but pulled out of the high jump as a precaution with the recurrence of a hip problem. "I'm gutted not to be competing this weekend, especially as it's in Birmingham and in front of my home crowd," Sotherton said. "I love competing here so I am very frustrated that I'll have to sit out and watch it instead. "I sustained an injury at the trials which is preventing me from competing, but I'm hoping that the treatment I am receiving will enable me to be on the start line (for the pentathlon pentathlon (pĕntăth`lən), composite athletic event. In ancient Greece it comprised leaping, foot racing, wrestling, discus throwing, and casting the javelin. ) at the European Indoors." The European Indoor Championships take place between March 6-8. Olympic triple jump silver medallist Phillips Idowu is also absent this weekend with the knee injury which also saw him miss last week's trials in Sheffield. CAPTION(S): HEEL INJURY Kelly Sotherton. |
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