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Briggs Athletics Classic preview - Newsroom - 03-02-2012
Australian Flame Ben St Lawrence (NSW) and Collis Birmingham (Vic) will battle it out across 5000m at the Briggs Athletics Classic this Saturday, February 4.
Birmingham already boasts one qualifier after clocking 13:15.70 at the Birmingham (GBR) instalment of the Samsung Diamond League last July, while St Lawrence, who is the national 5000m and 10,000m champion, is looking to add a 5000m mark to his previously recorded 27:24.95 for the 10,000m in Palo Alto (USA).
The duo will be joined on middle distance start lists by a bounty of Australian stars including Oceania 1500m record holder Ryan Gregson (NSW) and local favourite Ryan Foster (TAS).
Foster and Gregson will lead out in the two-lap event, where they will be joined by James Kaan (NSW), the national 800m champion.
In the field, Henry Frayne (Qld, triple Jump) and Dale Stevenson (Vic, shot put) will join international starters Tosin Oke (NGR, triple jump) and Russ Winger (USA, shot put).
Up and coming jumper Frayne, who trains alongside world championships silver medallist Mitchell Watt, will be looking to continue the form that saw him burst onto the international scene for ninth at the IAAF world championships last year. At the same meet in 2011, he soared 16.91m to move to fourth on the Australian All-Time list.
Stevenson is the Commonwealth Games shot put bronze medallist and last year in Hobart recorded a personal best of 20.05m. This competition will be his second outing on the National Athletics Series after a 19.11m throw at the Hunter Track Classic a fortnight ago.