CITY of Plymouth sprint sensation Annabelle Fasuba lowered her personal bests even further in just her second outdoor appearance of the season.
The 13-year-old had already re-written the record books in her opening run of the campaign at Brickfields at the start of April, clocking a time of 11.91 seconds for the 100m.
But she went even faster at the Yeovil Spring Open meeting at the weekend, clocking a stunning 11.6 seconds in a race where she was pushed by Torbay’s under-17 athlete Keeley Little and City of Plymouth’s under-23 runner Kinga Kudzia, who both clocked 11.9 seconds.
It was manually timed so does not qualify for the overall senior UK rankings, but if it did it would put her joint fourth and just 0.4 of a second behind number one ranked Daryll Neita, whose season’s best is 11.2 seconds.
However, it does put the English Schools’ champion at the top of the UK under-15 rankings and is also faster than any under-17 or under-20 female in the country has run so far this season and is one of the fastest under-18 times run in the world this year.
Her time at the weekend for the 100m was only 0.16 off Katherine Endacott’s club record, which she set when winning a Commonwealth Games medal in 2010 and only 0.04 off the UK all-time under-15 best set by Jodie Williams in 2008.
Fasuba also set a new PB in the 200m at Yeovil, clocking 24.02 seconds, which again is a UK-leading under-15 time and puts her third on the national all-time list behind Katherine Merry and Diane Smith, who both ran their times in 1989.
She was again pushed by Little and Kudzia in that event, with Little taking second in 24.21 seconds and Kudzia taking third in 24.51 seconds.