Oxford City's Hannah England will fly the flag for Great Britain at next month's World Junior Championships in Beijing after running the race of her life.

The 19-year-old University of Birmingham student recorded her biggest win with a brilliant success in the Norwich Union AAA Under 20-23 Championships at Bedford.

She struck gold in the under 20 1500m in a personal best and stadium record time of 4mins 17.3secs.

Now she can look forward to going to the Great Britain holding camp at Macau on August 5, before travelling on to Beijing for the championships from August 15 to 20.

"It's definitely the biggest thing I have won," said England. "It was good because it means I have been selected for the world junior championships."

England trained with Kelly Holmes in Australia at Easter, and the double Olympic champion was on hand to see her protege win.

"It was really good," added England. "Kelly turned up 40 minutes before my race and was the first person to come and congratulate me."

Radley's Lucy Boggis finished a creditable sixth in the under 20 women's 100m hurdles final.

In the under 23 women's 400m hurdles, Oxford University's Sally Hughes finished last of six in her heat in 68.50.

Frances Smithson, also from Oxford University, was 11th in the under 20 triple jump with a leap of 10.92m.

Oxfordshire's Hatti Dean has exceeded her own expectations by booking a place in Great Britain's team for next month's European Championships in Gothen- burg.

The 24-year-old former Radley AC runner stormed to victory in the 3000m steeplechase at the recent Norwich Union European Trials & UK/AAA Championships in Manchester.

And she did it in a championship record time of 9mins 52.04secs, coming home ahead of Ireland's Fenola Britton, who recorded 9.53.44.