A TEENAGE runner from Brighton and Hove was triumphant at The School Games national finals at Loughborough University.

Amber Anning, part of the South of England team, performed outstandingly to take the women’s 300m title in a championship record of 37.79 seconds.

Well clear of the field, her personal best puts her fourth on the UK all-time list.

Amber, 16, who is a Roedean School student but trains at Horsham, was delighted with her run.

She said: “I run 200m and 400m so I have the endurance and the speed, and with the 300m being a sprint I just went off hard.

“My aim this season was to go sub 38 but I haven’t run many 300s.

“I won this last year so I was going for the time in this race and to have achieved that is awesome.

“I’m really happy to move from 13th or 14th up to fourth on the UK all-time list.

“This season has been amazing with success at the Commonwealth Youth Games and now this.”

The School Games are an integrated multi-sport event for the UK’s most talented school-age athletes with some 1,600 athletes competing across 12 sports, seven of which included disability disciplines.

Previous competitors include Paralympic champions Hannah Cockroft, Ellie Simmonds and Jonnie Peacock, Olympic champion Adam Peaty and GB sprinters Adam Gemili and Dina Asher-Smith.

The School Games are the springboard for future athletes with 56 of the 382 athletes representing Team GB at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio having competed at the School Games.

The four-day event is supported by National Lottery funding from Sport England and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust.