Final 12 months’s occasion was held in sweltering situations and in addition produced an excellent males’s 800m as Nice Britain’s Callum Dodds broke one minute and 45 seconds for the primary time to clinch victory in a observe file of 1:44.79, which propelled him in the direction of choice for the European Championships.
Dodds will return to the Mary Peters Monitor the place his 800m opponents will once more embody compatriot Tom Randolph who additionally went below 1:45 when ending second final Could.
Eire’s 400m star Sharlene Mawdsley, who anchored her nation to a dramatic combined 4x400m relay gold ultimately 12 months’s European Championships and received silver within the girls’s 4x400m in Rome, has additionally signed up.
Mawdsley’s opponents will embody Nice Britain’s Isabelle Boffey, who has received 800m European U18, U20 and U23 titles, and can transfer down in distance to race Eire’s Paris Olympian.
Race director Eamonn Christie opened entries for the assembly on 19 January and so they have been stuffed inside quarter-hour – emphasising the standing of an occasion which once more can have World Athletics Continental Tour standing.
“As soon as once more I am overwhelmed at how rapidly the occasion bought out,” stated Christie.
“I am delighted on the calibre of athletes who’ve entered, together with worldwide, nationwide and native athletes.
“Up to now we’ve got entries from Spain, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic in addition to Eire and Nice Britain.”
BBC Sport NI’s web site report of Gill’s Belfast victory final 12 months generated greater than 580,000 web page views.
