Libby Clegg hopes gold is taste of things to come

SCOTLAND'S Libby Clegg added world gold to her Paralympic silver medal as she claimed victory for Britain in the T12 100 metres at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Clegg and her guide runner Mikail Huggins clocked a time of 12.73 seconds to edge out Slovakia's Hanka Kolnikova and secure a gold that Clegg hopes can boost her hopes of a repeat performance in London in 2012.

She said: "This is going to give me such a lot to build on going into London."

And Clegg, who also has a world 200m bronze medal to her name, added: "I was a bit down at the start but I really held it together. I didn't tense up and I stayed relaxed." Stefanie Reid was another Briton to secure a second medal at the Championships as she followed up her long jump bronze with a third-place finish in the T44 200 metres, recording a season's best time of 28.96 seconds in a race won by France's Marie Amelie Lefur.

Reid also earned bronze at the Beijing Games in a race where two athletes fell, and she was glad to pick up her latest medal in a clean race.

"I'm so excited; I won bronze in Beijing but this means so much more because I earned it in a fair race where nobody fell," she said.

"My coach Dan (Pfaff) told me to run it like a 100m and hold on. The 200m can be a scary race because you know the final 50m can be so tough but I kept my form and gave it everything and I'm beyond thrilled. This has given me so much confidence."

Sophia Warren was the third British medallist of the day as she set a new personal best and European record on her way to third in the T35 100m. Running into a strong headwind Warren clocked 17.71 seconds and the 36-year-old said: "I've changed the way I train and I've focused so much more on strength.

"I've been concentrating on getting my start right and I think I did that. I got stronger as the race went on so that bodes well for the 200m."

Welshman Aled Davies finished agonisingly close to a medal in fourth in the men's F42 shot putt with 12.84m, only marginally outside his lifetime best.

Elsewhere, 15-year-olds Jade Jones and Sally Brown finished fifth and sixth in the T54 200m and T46 100m finals respectively. Jonnie Peacock advanced to the final of T44 100m in a lifetime best where he will compete against Oscar Pistorius.