Morgan Lake, one of the brightest young talents in the sport, will bid for glory at next month’s European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna.
Great Britain star Lake, 17, is the world junior heptathlon and high jump champion and she will compete in the individual event in Sweden.
She was among a series of leading European juniors who were in the first wave of names in the British team for the championships held from 16-19 July.
Among those joining Lake will be Ojie Edoburun, 19, who tops the European junior men’s 100m rankings, Shannon Hylton, 18, who is first on the 200m lists, and Bobby Clay, 18, who has the best women’s 1500m times.
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Lake has progressed through the ranks with a series of junior records, with some of her heptathlon points-scoring at this young age being even better than her fellow Britons Jessica Ennis, the Olympic champion, and Katrina Johnson-Thompson, the European pentathlon champion, had achieved at the same stage of their career.
In fact, as Johnson-Thompson won European indoor pentathlon gold in Prague in March with 5000 points, Lake was back in ninth with a personal best of 4527 as she took a big step as a junior in a major senior event.
Her brilliance was shown last summer when she won the heptathlon at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene with a personal best of 6148 points and took the high jump with 1.93m.
She leads the European Athletics junior high jump rankings after going over at 1.94m at the England Athletics U20/23 Championships in Bedford last Sunday equalling the national junior record.
In the men’s 100m, Edouorun will head to Eskilstuna as a big gold medal hope for Britain after moving to the top of the European Athletics rankings with 10.25 in Bedford in May.
He is the 2013 World Youth silver medallist and will surely be disappointed if he does not make the podium.
Hylton broke 23 seconds with her win in 22.94 in Loughborough in May and it will be quite a family affair as her twin Cheriece is running in the 400m.
Clay’s mark of 4:12.20 in Manchester last month sent her to the top of the rankings, a list where she is four seconds clear of the next athlete, fellow Briton Amy Griffiths, who will be in the event with her.
Jo Summers, Britain’s team leader, said: 'We have had some fantastic performances over the last few months and collectively as a team, we are heading to Sweden in really good shape.'