TWO Warrington athletes are among the 27 named to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Cali Colombia, from July 15-19.

Warrington Athletics Club's Harriet Knowles-Jones, coached by Paul Roden, and Carys McAuley, coached by Phil Hicken, will tackle the 1,500m and 800m respectively in Cali.

They will be among a talented bunch looking to do their country proud.

Team Leader Alan Richardson said: “We have a really promising team heading to Cali and I’m looking forward to seeing how they perform on the world stage in this age-group.

“The athletes selected show potential to be competitive at world level and I am sure they will perform excellently as well as using this championship as a springboard to longer term senior success.”

Hannah Brier (Swansea) will be looking to continue her spectacular start to the season after clocking 11.44 at the England Athletics U20/U23 Championships a fortnight ago.

The Welsh junior record holder, who is ranked sixth in the world in her age-group, will be keen to push the competition to the wire as she targets world glory in South America.

European Youth leader Cameron Tindle (Edinburgh) headlines the men’s 200m alongside Brighton’s Toby Harries (Brighton Phoenix) with another European number one Alex Yee (Kent) confirmed in the 3000m.

The women’s 400m will be one of the highlights of the competition as Isle of Man athlete Catherine Reid and Hannah Williams (Herts Phoenix), sister of European 200m silver medallist Jodie are selected for GB & NI. Both impressed at the recent U20/U23 Championships with European Youth leader Reid finishing second and Williams fourth in the U20 race.

Chesterfield’s Alicia Barrett has been in excellent form so far this season and is unbeaten in her age-group over 100m hurdles this year.

She won the U18 race in Bedford and will head to the Colombian city targeting a high placing in the final.

Naomi Ogbeta (Trafford) is ranked joint seventh in the 2015 World Youth rankings in the triple jump so will have her eyes set on a spot in the final.

Similarly, George Evans (Shaftesbury Barnet) is seventh in the men’s discus rankings after a 60.21m throw in Loughborough earlier this year, and Joel Leon Benitez (Notts) goes in the men’s pole vault.

Women:

100m: Hannah Brier (Neal Merry/Swansea)

400m: Catherine Reid (Di Shimell/Manx), Hannah Williams (Colin Gaynor/Herts Phoenix)

800m: Carys McAuley (Philip Hicken/Warrington)

1500m: Harriet Knowles-Jones (Paul Roden/Warrington), Sabrina Sinha (Mark Newell/Peter Mullervy/Cambridge Harriers)

100m Hurdles: Alicia Barrett (Daniel Duke/Chesterfield), Hope Sarti (Len Peckham/Guildford & Godalming)

High Jump: Ada’ora Chigbo (Ken Holmes/North Somerset)

Long Jump: Emily Wright (Dan Cossins/Bristol & West)

Triple Jump: Naomi Ogbeta (Tom Cullen/Trafford)

Javelin: Emma Hamplett (David Parker/Birchfield Harriers)

Heptathlon: Niamh Emerson (David Feeney/Amber Valley), Michelle Hughes (Tony Benton/Havering)

Men:

100m: Oliver Bromby (Sara MacDonald-Gray/Southampton), Rechmial Miller (Ryan Freckleton/Hercules Wimbledon)

200m: Toby Harries (Jon Bigg/Brighton Phoenix), Cameron Tindle (Henry Gray/Edinburgh)

800m: Ben Greenwood (Catriona Helen Taverdale/Perth Strathtay)

1500m: James Gormley (John Wood/City of Sheffield), Markhim Lonsdale (David Lowes/Crook) 3000m: Alex Yee (Kenneth Pike/Kent)

2000m Steeplechase: William Battershill (Kirk Salmon/Erme Valley)

Pole Vault: Joel Leon Benitez (Alan Richardson/Notts)

Discus: George Evans (Duncan Flockhart/Shaftesbury Barnet)

Hammer: Jake Norris (Paul Dickenson/Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow)

Decathlon: Sam Talbot (Eldon Lake/Exeter)