ANDY: GIMME WORLD SHOT

ANDREW BUTCHART has urged UK Athletics

to pick him for the World Championships today after revealing his high-speed comeback from breaking a leg just six weeks ago.

The two-time Olympic 5000metres finalist believes he has done enough to earn a ticket to Oregon next month, with the British squad due to be named this afternoon.

The 30-year-old finished fourth at the weekend’s trials in Manchester, his first race since early March.

But Butchart – fiance of 2012 European champion Lynsey Sharp – admits it has been a race against time to get back on track.

He said: “I was waiting to go on training camp and I went to see my physio.

“He said, ‘You’ve got a broken leg’. Lynsey was happy because I got to go home for a month.

“But it’s healed. I have no pain, I’m running fine and building fitness.

“I missed five races I was meant to race. I was meant to open up in mid-May.

“Now it’s almost July for my first race. But it’s a big summer. I’ve already got Commonwealth Games.

“Hopefully I can get some more races.”