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Brothers Derek and Callum Hawkins on GB Olympic marathon team
- Updated: April 26, 2016
Derek Hawkins (pictured above, left) is to join his younger brother Callum (above, right) on Great Britain’s team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The British Olympic Association and UK Athletics has announced the first six members of the athletics squad that will represent Team GB in Brazil this summer.
Callum Hawkins and Tsegai Tewelde both qualified automatically as the first two British athletes with the qualifying time across the finishing line in Sunday’s Virgin Money London Marathon, placing eighth and 12th respectively. Derek Hawkins was the third British runner in that race, placing 14th overall, and he also clocked a time within British Athletics’ 2:14 qualifying standard. London 2012 Olympian Scott Overall had the qualifying time from the Berlin Marathon last September but dropped out in London after 25km.
Alyson Dixon and Sonia Samuels had also both already run British Athletics’ qualifying time in Berlin last September as they went sub-2:31, and the duo sealed their …
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