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LYNSEY Sharp is one of seven Scottish athletes named in Great Britain’s squad for the world championships, which take place in Beijing next month.

Sharp, who was born in Dumfries and lived in Lochmaben, will be making her World Championship debut in Bejiing.
The 25-year-old missed out on the 2013 World Championships through an injury which resulted in an operation on a leg tendon.
But last August, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she ran 2:01.34 to win a silver medal in the 800 m.
The night before the final, Sharp suffered stomach cramps and sickness and had to be placed on a drip at the Polyclinic at the Athletes’ Village until 5.30 am on the morning of the race.
Two weeks after the Commonwealth Games, she won a silver medal at the European Championships in Zürich, breaking Susan Scott’s Scottish record of 1:59.02, with a time of 1:58.80, to move to eighth on the UK all-time list.
Sharp is the daughter of former Scottish athletes Cameron and Carol Sharp.
Her father won a 1982 European silver medal in the 200 m and competed at the 1980 Olympic Games, while her mother has an 800 m best of 2:02.91 and competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

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