Dina Asher Smith, 10.97 MR, highlights day one of British Trials

BIRMINGHAM (GBR, Jun 30): European 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith broke the championship record to win the 100m at the British Championships in 10.97 (-0.5), her third sub-11 clocking of the month. Daryll Neita was second in a season’s best of 11.19 ahead of Bianca Williams (11.20) and Imani Lansiquot (11.23). Reece Prescod won the men’s 100m title in still air in 10.06 from European-leader Zharnel Hughes (10.13) and CJ Ujah (10.18). Fourth Nethaneel Mitchell-Blak 10.20 and fifth Ojie Edoburun 10.27. Former world U20 champion Morgan Lake cleared a PB of 1.97m to win the high jump title before three attempts at 2.00m ahead of Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s 1.90m, Holly Bradshaw cleared 4.60m to win her sixth title in the pole vault and European U20 bronze medallist Naomi Ogbeta won the triple jump title with a 13.95m PB. Veteran Nathan Douglas recorded a wind-aided 16.83m to win the men’s triple jump and Commonwealth champion Nick Miller won the hammer as expected with 75.33m. Also on the track, Marc Scott produced a 2:32.97 last kilometre to win the 5000m title in 13:47.00 from Andy Vernon (13:47.81) and Chris Thompson (13:49.85) and Zak Seddon won the 3000m steeplechase title in 8:33.12. Matt Hudson-Smith (45.94) and Zoey Clark (52.26) were the fastest in the 400m heats.