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Alex Bell and Keely Hodgkinson among athletes with Leeds Beckett connections going for gold in Rome

07 June 2024

A large contingent of athletes connected to Leeds Beckett have been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the European Athletics championships in Rome this weekend.

Six of the elite athletes train with the Leeds Talent Hub - a partnership between England Athletics, Leeds Beckett University, London Marathon and the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS).

Alex Bell (Coach: Andrew Henderson, Club: Leeds) and Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh) will go head-to-head in the women's 800m in a showdown they hope to repeat for the second successive Olympic final in Paris later this summer.

Lizzie Bird (Pat McCurry, Shaftesbury Barnet) enters the 3000m Steeple Chase, while Calli Hauger-Thackery (Hallamshire) competes in the half-marathon ahead of her tilt at the full marathon in the Olympics this summer.

Calli was on Leeds Beckett's Headingley Campus on Friday 31 May for blood screening and a session in the state-of-the-art environmental chambers at Leeds Beckett. One of our sports scientists breaks down what this is and why it helps athletes prepare for peak performance.

In the field, Jacob Fincham-Dukes (Matt Barton, Leeds) enters his second European Championships as Great Britain's only entrant in the long jump, while Olympian Scott Lincoln (Paul Wilson, City of York) aims to build on last month's personal best of 21.31.

Alongside the Talent Hub athletes, Leeds Beckett graduate Callum Wilkinson (Robert Heffernan, Enfield & Haringey) will compete in the 20km race walk.

Talent Hub Manager and Olympic Games Athletics Coach, Andrew Drake, said: "The Talent Hub exists to put promising athletes on the path to compete and medal at major championships, so it is encouraging to see such a strong cohort of athletes connected to the hub heading out to Rome.

"Reaching those standards is the result of the enormous personal dedication and talent of the athletes, supported by the world-class coaches, nutritionists, psychologists and other sports scientists in the Talent Hub and the wider university."

About Leeds Talent Hub

The Talent Hub programme aims to grow opportunities for everyone to reach their full potential in athletics. The partnership between England Athletics, Leeds Beckett University, London Marathon and the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) offers a professional coaching environment for athletes and coaches to represent the country and compete for medals at a national a global stage.

The Talent Hub offers world-class coaching, state of the art facilities and complimentary support from the Leeds Beckett's Carnegie School of Sport. The university's gold standard expertise in sport psychology, sports nutrition, exercise physiology and sports biomechanics services, compliments the hub's strength and conditioning, performance lifestyle support and physiotherapy delivery.

Prep for Paris: Calli Hauger-Thackery

Calli Hauger-Thackery running on a treadmill

Yes, so I'm here for a full profile today. Basically, I got my bloods done first, I'm just getting some like female blood work testing. It just be really useful to know where my hormones are at and all of that going into Paris.

I'm also going to go on the heat chamber because in Paris, it's looking like it could be hot in August. You just never know, so I just want to be prepared for the worst in terms of like heat acclamation, so we'll be going on the heat chamber today for 75 minutes on the treadmill which is going to be set to like 34 degrees, so it's going to be a warm one. Also after that, I'm going to be seeing the physio I work with, and then also after that, I'll be going and do some strength and conditioning as well.

This hub is amazing. It's got everything we need like in terms of like an incredible track, incredible support with coaches, and then also like the physios. You've got everything here, like you got nutritionists, psychologists, strength and conditioning coaches. So, yeah, I feel like it's all in one hub which is amazing for someone like me to come here and just get everything I need basically, yeah.

It's going to be historical, this race I think, which is amazing to be a part of. It's not your classic, like, it's not loops or it's not, you know, it's one big loop around Paris. Yeah, it's very, very hilly. There's one hill what's 13% in gradient, so I've just got to be prepared for that, and yeah it's been... it's been a lot obviously doing all the little things like the hill work, often and the long runs, just making sure I'm always, like, getting those hills conditioning my legs to the downs as well, not just the ups but the downs because there some steep, steep downhills.

I do feel like I've got a lot more to give which is exciting, and I just hope to go as close as that British record as I can one day. Yeah, it might take a year, two years, three years but I'm going to keep at it, and I can't wait to see, like, where else this distance takes me now.