Brighton & Hove’s 20-year-old Amber Anning broke her own Sussex Women’s 400m record at the weekend.
Running for Louisiana State University in the Quarter finals of the NCAA East championships Amber finished third in Jacksonville in a county record time of 51.78s. This gives her automatic qualifying to the NCAA finals, the week after next at Eugene, Oregon.
Amber, also ran second leg in the 4x4 LSU relay team which also qualified for Eugene with a season's best of 3:28.84.
After Eugene Amber will be heading home for the British Championships at Manchester from 25th - 27th June, which incorporates the Olympic trials. She is currently the fourth fastest British 400 metres runner, but only Jodie Williams has achieved the Olympic qualifying standard of 51.35s this year.