Athletics: Round-up

Denise Lewis, the only British woman to win a medal at the Olympics last year, will prepare for the World Championships by competing in the Gotzis invitational in Austria on 31 May 1 June. The Wolverhampton heptathlete, who won bronze in Atlanta, finished second to the world No 1, Gahada Shouaa, of Syria, at last year's invitational with a British record 6,645 points.

Barry Thomas, Britain's 1996 No 1 from Sheffield, has been selected to compete in the VI International DecathlonHeptathlon in Alhama, Spain, at the end of the month. Thomas is joined in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team by the world junior silver medalist, Dean Macey, of Old Gaytonians, and Wakefield's Kerry Jury.