Oxford City's Hannah England (pictured) is to 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.

Jessica Sparke (Woodford Green & Essex Ladies) took silver in 4.19.38, with Emma Pallant (Aldershot Farnham & District) third in 4.22.88.

England had earlier finished second in her heat in 4.34.8 on the shoulder of Sparke, who was first home in 4.34.37.

Now she can look forward to going to the Great Britain holding camp at Mikao 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.

"I guess that might have helped me win it a bit because I knew it meant I was going to Beijing."

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.

The 17-year-old recorded 14.50 as she finished out of the medals behind Wakefield & District's Zara Hohn, who took gold in 13.75.

Boggis, the newly-crowned English Schools' champion, qualified for the final by finishing third in her heat in 14.44 behind Sarah Adam (Leicester Coritanian) and Jade Surman (Birchfield Harriers), who both posted 13.97.

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.