Olympic-bound Isle of Wight heptathlete Kelly Sotherton has been selected for the Spar European Cup in Bydgoszcz, Poland this weekend.

She will tackle the long jump, following another successful weekend for the 27-year-old all-rounder, when she soared to two more personal bests in the Bedford International.

Turning her attention to the track, Sotherton celebrated her Athens call-up by improving on two of the events she felt had let her down last month despite achieving a new heptathlon high of 6,406 points in Gotzis, Austria.

She clocked 23.57sec in the 200m, won by Croydon Harriers' Donna Fraser in 23.14, then cleared the 100m hurdles in 13.39 behind a brilliant 13.01 run from UK number one Sarah Claxton of Belgrave Harriers.

A training partner of Olympic champion Denise Lewis in Birmingham, Sotherton breached the 6,000-point barrier for the first time last summer, qualifying her for valuable lottery funding.

It allowed her to give up her day job and concentrate her energies full-time on perfecting the seven heptathlon disciplines.

Her reward came in Gotzis where she achieved an astonishing five lifetime-bests and two second-bests to finish runner-up to Swedish world champion Carolina Kluft, the gold medal favourite for Athens.

Sotherton's Dutch coach, Charles van Commenee, the man who guided Lewis to Olympic gold in Sydney, said of his rising Island star: "If she reproduces what she does in training then she will be a better athlete in Athens.

"She has really just started and it would be reasonable to expect her to be even better in the next few years.

"Athens is perhaps a little too early for her, but next year she'll rank higher. She's a perfect example of what can be achieved in a professional environment."

Two other Hampshire athletes are included in the Great Britain squad for Poland - Portsmouth's Commonwealth 1500m champion Michael East of Newham & Essex Beagles and Aldershot, Farnham & District's 3,000m man Chris Thompson.