European Games: Olympic champions Charlotte Worthington & Joe Choong in GB squad

Charlotte Worthington won golden astatine the Tokyo Olympics aft becoming the archetypal pistillate to onshore a 360-degree backflip successful competition

Olympic champions Charlotte Worthington and Joe Choong are among 178 athletes chosen to correspond Team GB astatine the 2023 European Games.

Worthington claimed BMX freestyle golden successful Tokyo, portion Choong won the men's modern pentathlon.

Team GB volition vie crossed 18 Olympic disciplines, with qualification for the 2024 Paris Games connected the enactment successful many.

Qualification for the Paris Olympics volition beryllium disposable for those competing successful archery, creator swimming, boxing, breaking, canoe slalom, diving, modern pentathlon, rugby sevens, shooting and array tennis.

Meanwhile, ranking points toward places astatine the 2024 Games volition beryllium awarded to palmy athletes successful badminton, BMX freestyle, fencing, upland bike, taekwondo and triathlon.

Karam Singh (known arsenic B-Boy Kid Karam) and Sunni Brummitt (B-Boy Sunni) volition marque past arsenic the archetypal Britons to instrumentality portion successful breaking astatine a elder Games. The athletics is making its Olympic debut successful Paris.

And Ranujo Tomblin volition beryllium the archetypal antheral jock to correspond Team GB successful creator swimming.

Other erstwhile Olympic golden medallists picked for the British squad see Jade Jones, who won taekwondo titles astatine the 2012 and 2016 Games, and slalom canoeist Joe Clarke, who won successful Rio 2016.

In total, 32 athletes who competed for Team GB successful Tokyo person made the squad.

The 3rd variation of the European Games, which person antecedently been held successful Baku (2015) and Minsk (2019), volition spot astir 7,000 athletes from 48 European nations vie crossed a 12-day sporting programme.

The opening ceremonial volition instrumentality spot connected Wednesday, 21 June, astatine Krakow's Henryk Reyman Municipal Stadium.

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