Reynolds hurdles into Beijing contention

Ben Reynolds has put himself into qualifying contention for the World Track and Field Championships by winning the 110m hurdles at the England Athletics Championships in a new personal best of 13.48 seconds (+0.8m/s). 

Reynolds was narrowly outside the World Track and Field Championships qualifying time of 13.47 but is inside a new selection process for the 2015 IAAF World Championship qualifying marks based on the year-end-rankings list.  

It is explained on the Athletics Ireland high performance site as follows:

"The rules are, that if an athlete does not make the standard, the IAAF will select athletes from the year-end-rankings list to fill the quota set for each event (each event has a different quota to fill). After the entries have closed on midnight on the 10th of August the IAAF will notify federations of those athletes who have been selected by their “ranking” to fill the event quota.  Our policy allows Athletics Ireland to consider and confirm those athletes that are invited."

The quota for the 110m hurdles is 40 athletes with Reynolds' time placing him 35th. There are a number of other Irish athletes still inside the quota and they are listed below. 

EVENT     RANK         NAME       TIME        EVENT QUOTA

4X4 Relay    13         Ireland       3:01.67            16

200m           51     Kelly Proper     23.24            56

800m           44    Ciara Everard  2:01.21           48

1500m         42   Ciara Mageean 4:08.32           45

3000mSC    42     Sara Treacy     9:44.14           45

Gregan wins in Belgium in season's best

Brian Gregan's upward curve continues as he won the 400m at the Memorial Rasschaert in Ninove, Begium in a season's best of 45.85. The Clonliffe Harrier is due to run a leg of the 4x400m relay for his club at the GloHealth National League Final in Tullamore. Kelly Proper recorded times of 23.24 and 23.30 in the 200m. Link to the meet results are here.