FINAL GB & NI TEAM SELECTIONS FOR 2025 EUROPEAN ROAD RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS

UK Athletics has selected ten athletes to represent GB & NI in the 10k competition, completing the full squad for the European Road Running Championships in Belgium on the 12 and 13 April 2025.

Paris Olympic Triathlon medallist, Beth Potter (Shaftesbury Barnet) is one of five women who will look to compete in Leuven. She will be joined by the 2024 U23 European Cross Country Champion, Phoebe Anderson (Wayne Vinton, Herne Hill), Verity Ockenden (Swansea), Amelia Quirk (Mick Woods, Bracknell AC), Sarah Astin (Andrew Hobdell, Belgrave) and Jenny Nesbitt (Dave Long, Pontypridd). Nesbitt was originally selected for the half marathon earlier this year but has opted to compete in the 10k race instead.

Rory Leonard (Andy, Hobdell, Morpeth), who broke the men’s British 10k record earlier this year in Valencia, is one of four athletes selected for the men’s team. Alfie Manthorpe (John Wood, Hallamshire), Charles Wheeler (MK Distance Project), and Ellis Cross (Andrew Hobdell, Aldershot, Farnham & District) have also been selected for the 10k team.

The inaugural event, which will combine elite race championships with mass participation opportunities, will also comprise a marathon and a half-marathon.

In December UKA announced the marathon athletes competing in April. Since this announcement, Mhairi Maclennan has withdrawn from the women’s marathon. In addition, Clara Evans Graham and Tom Anderson have withdrawn from the half marathon team which was confirmed earlier this year.

The full team for GB & NI for the European Road Running Championships 2025;

GB & NI Team for 10k

Women

Pheobe Anderson (Wayne Vinton, Herne Hill)

Sarah Astin (Andrew Hobdell, Belgrave)

Jenny Nesbitt (Dave Long, Pontypridd)

Verity Ockenden (Chris Thompson, Swansea)

Beth Potter (Shaftesbury Barnet)

Amelia Quirk (Mick Woods, Bracknell AC)

Men

Ellis Cross (Andrew Hobdell, Aldershot, Farnham & District)

Rory Leonard (Andy Hobdell, Morpeth)

Alfie Manthorpe (John Wood, Hallamshire)

Charles Wheeler (MK Distance Project)

GB & NI Team for Half Marathon (selected February 2025)

Women

Hannah Irwin (Gavin Pavey, Cambridge & Coleridge)

Natasha Phillips (Vince Wilson, Dundee Hawkhill)

Men

Ben Connor (Derby)

GB & NI Team for Marathon (selected December 2024):

Women

Georgina Schwiening (Cambridge Runners)

Men

George James (Rob Russell, Dorking & Mole Valley)