Amber Anning announced herself on the global stage by becoming Great Britain’s first women’s 400m champion at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
At the beginning of her first season as a professional athlete, the 24-year-old clocked 50.60 seconds to edge a dramatic race to the line against American Alexis Holmes.
It is only two weeks since Anning was left devastated at the European indoors, where her medal bid was ended by a disqualification for a lane infringement.
But she held her nerve following a mid-race shove from Holmes before measuring her final effort to perfection to claim her first international title in Nanjing, China.
Anning initially showed little emotion after her hard-fought victory, before collecting a British flag and beginning a lap of honour at the Nanjing Cube.
Attempting to defend her place on the inside of the track at the start of the final lap, Holmes fell across the line as Anning clinched victory by three one hundredths of a second.
Henriette Jaeger of Norway took the bronze in 50.92.
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