YORK athlete Richard Buck is in the Great Britain squad for the World Athletics Championships in South Korea next month.

The 24-year-old, who failed to post the qualifying standard time in the British trials at Birmingham, where he was sixth in the final, before he came home in fourth place in an ‘international race’ at Crystal Palace last weekend, is included in the eight-strong squad for the 4x400 metres relay event at the championships to be held in Daegu from August 27 to September 4.

Buck, the City of York Athletics Club ace, is named alongside Chris Clarke, Jack Green, Dai Greene, Luke Lennon-Ford, Nigel Levine, Martyn Rooney and Richard Strachan.

Both Green and Greene are also in the 400m hurdles solo event.

Meanwhile, GB field just one athlete in the individual 400m class – Rooney, who was the only runner to achieve the ‘A’-standard qualification for the championships.

Buck produced an excellent performance in the heats to qualify for the national final, but then revealed that the first race had taken “too much out of him”.

His time at Crystal Palace – 46.26 seconds – was even slower than his sixth-placed finish at Birmingham in 46.02, which was quite a blow considering that at an event in Switzerland earlier in the season Buck clocked a personal best time of 45.99.