TEESSIDE duo Jade Jones and Callum Hall have been named in an 18-strong para-athletics squad to represent England at next year’s Commonwealth Games.

Middlesbrough’s Jones, who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealths in Glasgow, will compete in the T54 1,500m and T54 marathon in the athletics programme on Australia’s Gold Coast.

The 21-year-old will be doubling up next April as she had already been named in the England squad for the para-triathlon.

Hall, who is from Stockton, will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the T54 marathon, having only taken up wheelchair racing in 2014.

The pair form part of a strong English squad which also features Paralympic and World champions Sophie Hahn and Kadeena Cox as well as Katrina Hart, who was a Commonwealth gold medallist in Delhi in 2010.

“This is the largest para programme that the Commonwealth Games has ever delivered, and I am very pleased to be welcoming these athletes as part of Team England,” said Sarah Winckless, chef de mission for Commonwealth Games England. “They will join the 75 athletes who were announced earlier this year, and will be our largest group of athletes from one sport.

“This para group is multi-talented and very strong, and I would particularly like to point out Jade Jones, who will both be competing on the track and taking her turn at the triathlon venue, a first for Team England.”