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LINA NIELSEN NAMED TEAM CAPTAIN FOR GB & NI TEAM AT WORLD RELAYS IN CHINA

In Athlete
May 10, 2025

The athletics of the United Kingdom (UKA) has announced Lina Nielsen (Tony Lester, Shaftesbury Barnet) as captain of the Great Britain and Ireland of the North (GB & Ni) in the world relay of athletics in Guangzhou, China, this weekend.

The 400M Hurdler is part of the 400M female relay team and will compete this weekend for a place of qualification for the World Championship in Tokyo at the end of this year. The tradition is that the team captain give a speech to the event team before the competition. As a trained Yoga Instructor, Lina made the team do a breathing exercise to start their speech. Then he touched his experiences and the power of belief in his teammates.

Last summer, Lina was part of the 4x400m female relay team that won an Olympic bronze medal at the Paris Games. Since then, he has managed to break the 300 m record of British women in a time or 36.53 seconds earlier this year in front of a local crowd at the Kole Classic in Birmingham.

In the European Indoor Championship of 2025 in Apeledoorn, the first stage of the 4x400M Femalem GB & Ni Ni, which made a dominant career to claim the silver medal, which adds to its bronze of the mixed relay event previously previously previously ran.

Nielsen, Hurdle National 400m champion of 2024 UK Athletics, he said;

“I am really honors. It is good that they call me to be a team captain. I have made me realize that I have had many experiences that I can get and, hopefully, give people a team moral before we move forward.

“Well, as a yoga professor, I had to start my speech with some navigation exercises, but I feel that he really made everyone calm down. I wanted everyone to be children or breathe in unison so that we can all understand the objective of this disaster of what moves to move to move to move to move MoveageWageWagawageWagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaagaageayey

The team leader said Darren Campbell;

“Perseverance and resilience that are two necessary ingredients to be a successful athlete, and Lina has shown qualities on and off the track. Last year, with all the different obstacles in front of its lumbril or gave home for the team for the team for the team. Bronze medal.