JENNY Brown, the backbone of so many Ashford women's athletics teams over the years, achieved a fine set of results at the European Masters Athletics Championships in Aarhus in Denmark.

Competing as a W45 veteran for the first time, Brown won three European gold medals, three silver medals and set four British records in the process.

It was a hectic 12 days of competition for the Ashford veteran who opened with a British record in the heptathlon and also went close to the old world mark which was broken by the only woman to best her forcing the Ashford athglete into the silver medal slot despite a brilliant 5,665 points.

Highlight was the high jump where she set a British record also for the event with 1.63m.

High jump is her favourite event and she showed again what a class athlete she is in the individual high jump competition taking the gold medal equalling her British record of 1.63m with her very first jump. She went close to improving the mark clearing 1.66m but just clipping the bar as she came down.

Sadly the 400m clashed with the pentathlon competition and although she went into the final as favourite after winning her heat and semi-final with the fastest times the final came right on the back of the high jump competition for the pentathlon.

Having cleared 1.60m to win that section she then had to dash stright off to the 400m final and the lack of preparation showed as she trailed in fifth having felt capaable of adding another medal to her haul.

However, she responded by winning the gold in pentathlon by a mere 12 points after a brilliant battle with a Spanish rival who had led after the initial hurdles.

Brown's win in the high jump pulled her back and there was not much between them until the final event which the Ashford athlete had to win by 35m to take the gold.

She just did it to set a British record for the pentathlon aand they are still checking to see if her mark bettered the world mark as well.

The Spaniard got her revenge winning ther triple jump but Brown again showed her grit claiming the silver and another British record with a 10.61m leap with her final jump.

The relay events also brought medals with a silver in the 4x100m and then gold with the 4x400m quartet.

The only setback came in the 800m where she just missed making the final by a hundreth of second.