Lewis-Francis loses funding

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The 27-year-old, a member of Great Britain's gold medal-winning quartet in Athens in 2004, is not among the athletes invited on to the World Class Performance Programme for the 2009/2010 season.

Lewis-Francis, a former world junior champion, missed the entire 2008 season, including the Beijing Olympics, with an Achilles tendon injury. He was not selected for the GB team for the World Championships in Berlin in the summer.

There is also no place on the funding programme for Welsh sprinter Christian Malcolm, who finished fifth in the Olympic 200m final in 2004 and 2008.

Wigan runner Jenny Meadows has been rewarded for her 800m bronze medal in Berlin by having her funding upgraded from development to podium level.

Swansea's David Greene has also had his funding increased on the back of reaching the 400m hurdles final at the World Championships, while 110m hurdler Andy Turner is back on the WCPP after an impressive season.

Another high hurdler, William Sharman, is handed podium funding after a stunning and unexpected fourth place in the final in Berlin.

Charlene Thomas, the surprise winner of the 1500m at the UK Championships, and Jodie Williams, the teenager who won the sprint double at the World Youth Championships, are handed development funding.

UKA head coach Charles van Commenee said: "The criteria and selection process has been redeveloped to be much clearer and more transparent for all involved, and I am confident it has produced a crop of athletes who will deliver to the aims of the programme, namely success on the global stage."