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Just a week after opening her season with a personal best, Fife's Eilidh Child bettered her fastest 400m hurdles time at the Inter Counties event in Bedford yesterday.
The 22-year-old Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport supported athlete set a lifetime best of 55.52, becoming the first Scottish athlete to achieve a Commonwealth Games qualifying mark twice on the run up to Delhi 2010.
Her new time was just two hundredths of a second off the A standard (55.50) for the World Championships of 55.50 in Berlin. But almost two seconds inside the qualifying mark (57.40) for the European Under-23 Championships in Lithuania this July. Having placed fifth in the 2007 event, Child will be one of the favourites to challenge for the gold medal this time.
After her first two events of the season she is ranked eighth in the world and number one in Europe.
