Lisa Dobriskey will make her first appearance of the season, at the Loughborough International Athletics match on Sunday.

The New Romney-born Ashford AC star, 29, will make her bow in an unusual event for her, the 3,000m. It means there will be no highly-anticipated clash between the former Commonwealth gold and World Championship silver-medallist and promising Canterbury youngster Bobby Clay, who turns 16 on Sunday, who will run for GB’s under-20 squad in the 1,500m.

Dobriskey added: “I am really looking forward to watching Bobby run the 1,500m though.”
Clay is part of the Green Machine Sport talent stable run by Hythe’s Jack Green, who will also take part at Loughborough in the 400m hurdles.

The London 2012 Olympic semi-finalist, 21, suffered disappointment in his outdoor season opener in the Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday, pulling up after clattering a hurdle around the bend.

Green said: “It was another technical problem and a lack of concentration. I was concentrating on a certain stride pattern to the opening hurdle and the positive is that I managed to do that into a headwind, but having done it, I switched off after that, got too close to a hurdle and hit it.

“I’ve had my wrist slapped but I will take the positives and move on. You need to see progress with hurdles and the progress is there.”

He added: “I’m not overly concerned at the moment. I have all the speed and physical capability to run quick times.It’s early in the season, no medals are handed out in May.”

The following weekend Green is set to run a 200m hurdles against GB’s Andy Turner and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Felix Sanchez at the Manchester Street Race.