Swindon Harriers youngster Lucy Bull has become an English Schools champion in the javelin breaking the championship record after a marvellous display.

Still only aged 14 Bull is celebrating her own slice of athletics history after winning the junior girls’ javelin at the English Schools’ Track and Field Championships at the Birmingham Alexander Stadium last weekend.

The Farmor’s School student not only won gold but also broke the championship record with a mighty throw of 43.52 metres in the final round to beat the previous record set six years ago as she blew away the competition.

“I still cannot believe it!” said Bull, who is coached at the Harriers by Alan Brown

“This is definitely my finest individual sporting performance. I must thank my coach Alan and everyone at the club who has been so supportive and kind to me. It has been really good.”

Bull got her first taste of the throws in the club’s Quadkids section with the howler event and progressed from there into the javelin, where she has become a consistently strong performer and has now taken the national crown.

Laila-Jae Belgrave, coached by Tony Jackson, delivered a terrific performance to finish fourth in the final of the inter girls’ 80-metre hurdles clocking a sparkling legal personal best of 11.64 seconds in the final, an agonising 0.1 seconds off the bronze medal.

To record a personal best in the biggest event of the season is all one can ask of any athlete and that is what Kalina Karacheva accomplished as she put in her best performance to record a time of 41.78 seconds in the heats of the inter-girls’ 300 metres.

There were mixed results in the hammer. You have to feel for Holly Scott and Lottie Harding who both suffered the disappointment of failing to register a legal throw in the inter and junior girls’ events respectively but in the inter boys’ hammer Archie Kinneir finished ninth and Billy Dickinson was eighth in the seniors.

In the sprints, Emmanual Daramola clocked a legal personal best of 11.11 seconds in the semi-finals of the inter boys 100 metres and in the inters 200 metres Jonathan Dumbutshena recorded a lifetime best of 22.33 seconds in his heats.

Ella Spencer produced a battling performance to finish 13th in the inter girls’ 3000 metres while Jesse Bryant and Elliot Cox made solid debuts on their first appearance on the national stage.