British sprinter Zharnel Hughes has been granted a medical exemption from participating within the UK Athletics Championships in Manchester later this month, British Athletics has mentioned., exterior
The 28-year-old, Britain’s quickest man ever over each 100m and 200m, remains to be anticipated to obtain a discretionary place to symbolize Workforce GB on the Olympics in Paris this summer season.
The UK Athletics Championships will double because the official observe and subject trial for choice for the Paris Olympic Video games for all occasions apart from the ten,000m.
Hughes just isn’t in a position to take to the observe although after selecting up a hamstring harm throughout a gathering in Jamaica earlier this month.
“Zharnel Hughes has been granted a medical exemption from competing on this weekend’s UK Athletics Championship in Manchester as he continues to get well from a hamstring harm,” British Athletics mentioned.
The Anguillan-born sprinter broke a 30-year British 200m report in London final yr with a time of 19.73 seconds after which went on to smash the British 100m report a month later on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, claiming a bronze medal within the course of.
Nevertheless, he missed the current European Athletics Championships in Rome as a result of harm, which can now maintain him out this weekend’s Olympic trials.
Posting the information on social media, British Athletics appeared to depart the door open for Hughes to make the Olympic workforce although, saying: “We stay up for seeing Zharnel again on the observe throughout a giant summer season of athletics.”