South Canterbury’s Daniel Lord has been named in the Athletics New Zealand team to compete at the International Association of Athletics Federation’s World Race Walking Cup in Mexico.
Lord will join two others, Waikato pair Natasha Murrihy and Matthew Holcroft, in Chihuahua in mid-May.
Holcroft and Lord will compete in the junior men’s 10,000m track walk, while Murrihy will compete over the same distance in the junior women’s event.
Lord easily qualified for the event, breaking the 49-minute standard by three minutes in winning the New Zealand versus Australia under 21 test in Auckland in February.
The 18-year-old’s winning performance at the New Zealand Track and Field Championships in Christchurch last month clinched his selection .
Lord, along with South Canterbury clubmate Tom Walsh, have also been named in the Rio 2016 Squad to prepare for the 2016 Olympics in Rio Janiero.
Walsh is also set to compete in the shot put at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in Canada in July.
If Lord breaks the qualifying time of 43m 26s in Mexico he could be added to the squad for Canada.
Lord is studying physical education at Otago University in Dunedin, while Walsh is undertaking a building apprenticeship in Christchurch, but both still represent the South Canterbury Amateur Athletics Club.
