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KENT runner Lisa Dobriskey, of Ashford AC, had a brilliant run in the BUSA indoor athletics championships at Sheffield smashing the women’s 3,000m record by 10 seconds.
Another great display of front running saw Dobriskey, from Littlestone, near Folkestone, dominate the final to finish over 14 seconds ahead of her nearest rival and Loughborough University teammate Sarah Maude.
Dobriskey clocked 9:08.08 to shatter the record set last year of (.18.95 set by Kate Reed.
In the heats Lisa again qualified comfortably with the only sub 10 tim of the qualifiers clocking 9:32.71.
Ashford AC’s Gary Carr was also int he medals taking a fine bronze in the men’s 200m with a season’s best 22.21.
Carr, who coaches at Aldington’s Panther Club, was running for the University of Kent and won his heat and semi-final and is hoping to get selection for the Scottish Commonwealth Games team this season.
The Games are being staged in Australia in March next year.
Meanwhile, three Ashford athletes won medals in the regional Sportshall games.
Tom Bennett and Alex Vegara-Lansdell from the Ashford AC Kent Active Sports Panther Club were competing fot the first time for Kent.
Bennett won gold in the U-13 speed bounce with an outstanding 82 bounces in 30 seconds and Alex won bronze in the vertical jump with a pb 53 cm. Sarah Packham cleared 1.25m in the U-13 high jump in her first outing for Kent.