Elliot for World Youth Champs

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Cardiff's Elliot Slade has been rewarded for his fine progress this year with selection for the Great Britain team to take part in the IAAF World Youth Championships to be held in Lille, France, from 6th to 10th July.

Elliot is ranked Britain's number one under 17 800m runner with a best time of 1:51.82 but will find the competition in Lille very hot indeed as half a dozen or more Africans of the same age have run under 1:50.00.

This is a well deserved honour and a great new experience for Elliot, who is coached by Arwyn Davies, and we wish him well

Cardiff's former 400m specialist Tim Benjamin took part in the first ever edition of the World Championships in 1999 when he was 17 and won the 200m gold medal. Elliot has chosen a tougher event but if he could emulate Tim's subsequent international career he too could be a star of the future.