Oyepitan in running for double sprint slot

Abi Oyepitan will learn this week if she has found a back door route into the Olympic 100 metres after becoming the fourth fastest Briton in history at the Norwich Union International.

Finishing third on a cold Sunday in Birmingham is not normally a reason for celebration, but Oyepitan's performance in running 11.17seconds, behind winner Jamaican Aleen Bailey (11.04secs), took her to a different level.

It was the quickest time a British woman has run the distance for 15 years and puts her behind only Kathy Smallwood, Paula Thomas and Andrea Lynch in the UK alltime rankings.

Londoner Oyepitan, 24, who runs for Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, has already qualified for the 200m in Athens next month and had won the 100m at the trials in Manchester.

But she did not make the 100m team because she did not have the qualifying time before the final selections were made a week ago to comply with the British Olympic Association and UK Athletics' deadline.

The fact Oyepitan is in the 200m squad anyway, it is possible, under 'exceptional circumstances', that she can appeal to the BOA to be entered into the 100m.