Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

UK Athletics announced a team of 67 athletes on August 9 in preparation for the competition.^[1] Team GB wwas represented by defending world champions Phillips Idowu and Jessica Ennis in the triple jump and the heptathlon respectively, as well as Lisa Dobriskey and Jenny Meadows who won silver and bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships respectively. Selected athletes had achieved at least one of the competition's A or B qualifying standards.

Head coach Charles van Commenne had expressed a target of 10 medal opportunities ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Apart from the defending medallists, the team also includes the women's 400m gold and silver medallists from the 2007 World Championships, Christine Ohuruogu and Nicola Sanders, respectively and two individual medallists from the 1999 World Championships, 100m bronze medallist Dwain Chambers and women's triple jump silver medallist Yamila Aldama.

In addition, the team included 2 athletes invited by the IPC for exhibition events: Michael Bushell, 400m T53 (wheelchair) men, and Rochelle Woods, 800m T54 (wheelchair) women.^[2]

The following athletes appeared on the preliminary entry list,^[2] but not on the official start list of the specific event,^[3] resulting in total number of 59 competitors:

The following British competitors won medals at the Championships

Medal	Name	Event	Date
Gold	Jessica Ennis	Heptathlon	30 August
Gold	Dai Greene	400 metres hurdles	1 September
Gold	Mo Farah	5000 metres	4 September
Silver	Mo Farah	10 000 metres	28 August
Silver	Hannah England	1500 metres	1 September
Silver	Phillips Idowu	Triple jump	4 September
Bronze	Andy Turner	110 metres hurdles	29 August

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	100 metres			10.29	2 Q	10.23	3	Did not advance
Dwain Chambers	100 metres			10.34	4 q	DQ		Did not advance
Marlon Devonish	100 metres			10.28	2 Q	10.25	7	Did not advance
James Ellington	200 metres			20.82	4	Did not advance
Christian Malcolm	200 metres			20.66	4 q	20.88	5	Did not advance
Martyn Rooney	400 metres			45.30 (SB)	2 Q	46.09	7	Did not advance
Andrew Osagie	800 metres			1:46.08	2 Q	1:46.12	4	Did not advance
Michael Rimmer	800 metres			1.47:11	5	Did not advance
James Shane	1500 metres			3:41.17	19	Did not advance
Mo Farah	5000 metres			13:38.03	2 Q			13:23.36
Mo Farah	10,000 metres							27:14.07
Andrew Lemoncello	Marathon							DNS
Lee Merrien	Marathon							2:16:59	22
Dave Webb	Marathon							2:15:48 (SB)	15
Lawrence Clarke	110 m hurdles			13.65	5	Did not advance
Andy Turner	110 m hurdles			13.32	2 Q	13.44	4 q	13.44
William Sharman	110 m hurdles			13.52	4 q	13.51	3 Q	13.67	5
Dai Greene	400 m hurdles			48.52	1 Q	48.62	1 Q	48.26
Jack Green	400 m hurdles			50.39	4 Q	49.62	5	Did not advance
Nathan Woodward	400 m hurdles			49.06	2 Q	49.57	6	Did not advance
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Marlon Devonish Christian Malcolm Craig Pickering	4 x 100 metres relay			38.29	1 Q			DNF
Richard Strachan Nigel Levine Chris Clarke Martyn Rooney	4 x 400 metres relay			3:00.38 (SB)	4 q			3:01.16	7
Greg Rutherford	Long jump	8.00	7					Did not advance
Chris Tomlinson	Long jump	8.02	7 q					7.87	11
Phillips Idowu	Triple jump	17.17	2 Q					17.77 (SB)
Martyn Bernard	High jump	2.21	29					Did not advance
Tom Parsons	High jump	2.25	19					Did not advance
Steve Lewis	Pole vault	5.50	6 q					5.65 (SB)	9
Abdul Buhari	Discus throw	60.21	13					Did not advance
Brett Morse	Discus throw	62.38	5 q					62.69	12
Carl Myerscough	Discus throw	60.29	17					Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank	Time Width Height	Rank
Jeanette Kwakye	100 metres	BYE		11.42	3 Q	11.48	6	Did not advance
Anyika Onuora	100 metres	BYE		11.41	5	Did not advance
Laura Turner	100 metres	BYE		11.45	4	Did not advance
Anyika Onuora	200 metres			22.93 (PB)	5 q	23.08	7	Did not advance
Lee McConnell	400 metres			52.75	3 Q	51.97	7	Did not advance
Christine Ohuruogu	400 metres			DQ		Did not advance
Nicola Sanders	400 metres			52.65	5 q	52.47	6	Did not advance
Emma Jackson	800 metres			2:01.17	5 q	1:59.77 (PB)	5	Did not advance
Jenny Meadows	800 metres			2:01.11	1 Q	1:59.07	3	Did not advance
Marilyn Okoro	800 metres			1:59.74	4 Q	2:01.54	7	Did not advance
Lisa Dobriskey	1500 metres			4:12.70	11	Did not advance
Hannah England	1500 metres			4:13.45	1 Q	4:08.31	6 q	4:05.68
Helen Clitheroe	5000 metres			5:37.73	8 q			15:21.22	12
Alyson Dixon	Marathon							2:50:51	42
Susan Partridge	Marathon							2:35:57	24
Tiffany Porter	100 m hurdles			12.84	1 Q	12.56 (NR)	1 Q	12.63	4
Eilidh Child	400 m hurdles			56.18	3 Q	55.89	6	Did not advance
Perri Shakes-Drayton	400 m hurdles			55.90	2 Q	55.07	3	Did not advance
Barbara Parker	3000 metres steeplechase			9:38.21	5 q			9:56.66	14
Jeanette Kwakye Anyika Onuora Tiffany Porter Laura Turner	4 x 100 metres relay			43.95	5			Did not advance
Christine Ohuruogu Nicola Sanders Lee McConnell Perri Shakes-Drayton	4 x 400 metres relay			3:23.05 (SB)	2 Q			3:23.63	4
Johanna Jackson	20 kilometres walk							1:35:32	23
Shara Proctor	Long jump	6.34	11					Did not advance
Yamilé Aldama	Triple jump	14.35 (SB)	2 q					14.50 (SB)	5
Holly Bleasdale	Pole vault	NM						Did not advance
Kate Dennison	Pole vault	4.50m	8					Did not advance
Sophie Hitchon	Hammer throw	64.93	13					Did not advance
Goldie Sayers	Javelin throw	62.19	4 Q					58.18	10

Heptathlon

• Official competition website