ASHFORD Athletic Club star runner Lisa Dobriskey made the journey down from Loughborough University on Sunday worthwhile by clobbering a 16-year old county record by a massive four and half seconds at the Julie Rose Stadium.

The student from Littlestone was one of few star internationals to compete in the county championships over the weekend and left no doubt about her class with a storming 1500m run.

Lisa has always liked being a front runner and with no-one to test her the GB international and universities champion just challenged the clock recording a tremendous 4:18.88 to smash Anna Wittekind’s 1988 record of 4:23.2. Lisa now holds the county record at every age group at 1500m and the 800m records at Under-17 and U-20 level.

Such was her dominance on Sunday she finished the length of the straight from second placed Kate Buchan (Medway and Maidstone) who clocked 4:38.44 with the defending champion Kelly Crickmore pushed back to fifth.

It was a weekend for records with the superb weather ensuring conditions were excellent. In all, 11 county records fell and one was equalled.

Another home success came for Ashford’s Stevie Langford who equalled the county Under-20 high jump mark of 1.60 but needed a countback to take gold ahead of Tonbridge’s Rebecca Smith.

Belgrave’s Chris Gearing added two metres to the U-20 men shot record also set in 1988 with 18.32m and added the senior title as well with a more modest 16.21m.

Saturday was the chance for the field eventers to shine with Francesca Ball (M&M) winning the U-17 triple jump with a new mark of 11.81m; Dartford’s Rebecca Saunders set 40.83 in the U-17 discus and Vicky Thomas (B&B) broke Sarah Dobriskey’s U-17 hammer record with 42.08m.

On Sunday the track athletes took centre stage with Dobriskey’s run and M&M’s Chris Haines having a splendid U-15 800m run with a terrific 2:01.11.

Liz Hughes (B&B) broke her own SW pole vault record with 4m and Chris Lawrence (B&B) her own U-20 javelin mark with 40.54m.