Set Osho has run the second fastest time in history by a Sussex junior over 400m.

Only Olympic legend Steve Ovett has run faster than the 47.99sec Osho set at the Loughborough International.

The under-20 athete, from Brighton, was fourth in the senior race.

His Eastbourne-based training partner Jason Hussain, also a junior, was fifth.

Hussain recently clocked 48.12sec when he won the Sussex Championships, a time which put him second behind Ovett.

Mark Gregory, who coaches Osho and Hussain, said: "Set has come back strongly from the disappointment of the County Championships when Jason beat him and is now in the limelight. They are both pushing each other to new levels and now Set has his sights on breaking Sean Baldock's Sussex Schools' record on Saturday."

Charlotte Best boosted her hopes of selection for the World Junior Championships by moving up to second in the United Kingdom under-20 rankings after clocking 2min.05.27sec in the international at Loughborough.

It was the 19-year-old Crawley AC athlete's second personal best of the season, knocking more than a second off the time she set at Solihull, and it earned her fifth place.

Her time was well inside the World Championship qualifying time of 2min.7sec but Best knows she still faces stiff competition to secure her place in the Great Britain squad for Grossetto, Italy.

She said: "It's very close for World Junior selection. So far this year I've not had people in front of me, so it was good to have someone to push me. I was really happy with my time."

Danielle Christmas was in sensational form during Crawley AC's Southern Women's League match at Eton on Saturday.

The junior won the 400m and 800m, setting personal bests and club records in the process. Christmas clocked 58.4sec for 400m and 2min.08.2sec for 800m.