SHEFFIELD sprint sensation Zara Hohn claimed double British University Championship gold at the weekend after dominating on the track.
Hohn, who is studying at Sheffield Hallam and is in her third year doing Sports and Leisure Management, stormed to 60m sprint gold on Saturday night, before the repeating the trick in the 60m hurdles 24 hours later.
The 20-year-old held off Hull's
Annabelle Lewis and Liverpool's Helen Asher in the straight sprint, winning in 7.63 seconds, while pipping Nicola Robinson and Dom Blaze to hurdles gold on Sunday, setting a new personal best of 8.44 seconds in the process.
"I've been working on my starts since the Inter City Challenge, where I got caught up in my blocks and just didn't react to the gun," said Hohn. "So in my warm up for both events I was really focusing on getting a good start to this race."
Meanwhile, there was further success on the track for Sheffield as Amy Hill won gold in the shot put with a throw of 13.88m.
Hill, a former High Storrs School pupil who runs for the City of Sheffield, was not happy with her championship form despite topping the podium, with Leeds Met's Chloe Beckett claiming silver and Birmingham's Alice Simpson the bronze.
"I definitely think I could have thrown further," said Hill, who is in the first year of a Physiotherapy degree at Sheffield Hallam. "It was a pretty poor series of throws.
"The winning throw was good but it is not really a high standard of competition. I'm actually a multi-eventer but this year I have decided to concentrate on shot.
"Everything has gone well but I have been competing every single weekend since January so I haven't really prepared for this."
Oxford's Hannah England became the first British athlete in five years to win a US national indoor collegiate title with victory in the women's mile at the NCAA Indoor track and field championships on Saturday.
The 20-year-old, who transferred to Florida State University from Birmingham at the end of the 2006/07 academic year, used a powerful kick to move from fourth to first over the final lap, hitting the front at the final turn and winning in a personal best and Florida State record time of 4:35.30.
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