A TEENAGER who represented England at the Youth Commonwealth Games is also in the running for an Argus Community Stars Award.

Amber Anning won the bronze medal in the individual 400m race in the Bahamas in the summer, running a time of 53.68s, which was a big personal best and a new Sussex Senior Women’s record.

Amber’s was the fastest time run by a British 16-year-old girl over 400m for 33 years.

Then in the final event of the track she and her England teammates won a silver medal in the mixed 4x400m relay.

This followed a triumphant run at The School Games national finals at Loughborough University.

As part of the South of England team, she 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, 17, who was at Roedean School and is now at Bhasvic, 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 Argus Community Stars Awards celebrate the achievements of people from all parts of society.

If you would like to sponsor this, or any of our other awards contact Tina Daniels on tina.daniels@theargus.co,uk or 01273 021435.

The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony at the Brighton Dome Concert Hall on January 21. This is the 16th year of running the awards.