ENFIELD & Haringey athlete Ben Nagy ran the race of his life on Saturday at the England Athletics Championships to win his first national title.

He surged away over the final two laps at Bedford to take the under-20 3000m steeplechase title by a clear six seconds.

He also lowered his personal best time for this event by four seconds to 9:10.76. It took him up to number two on the UK U20 ranking list and, significantly, it was the steeplechaser ranked in first place that Nagy ran away from over those last two laps.

The 19-year-old is also ranked number one U20 over the 2000m steeplechase.

Torema Dorsett lowered her personal best time in the heats of the women’s U20 100m to 11.61 – beating the qualifying standard for the European Junior Championships - and then came back in the final with a 11.66 clocking for second place and a possible spot in the GB team.

In his first year in the under-23 age group, 19-year-old Shaun Collins finished second in the 3000m steeplechase, recording 9:12.64 and, but for the dawdling pace of the first two laps in a tactical battle, would surely have improved his PB of 9:10.60. Collins is currently ranked at number four in the U23 lists and, like Nagy, he beat one of those ranked above him.

In all, Enfield & Haringey AC saw nine athletes reach the final eight in their events, five of them medallists.

The other two EHAC athletes to mount the victory rostrum were Dee Bakre who was very close to her six-day-old PB in the U20 triple jump with her second placing 11.99m effort and Bonne Buwembo who launched the 800g javelin out to 67.34m for his second place medal in the M23 event – just 13cm short of his season’s best – and second spot on the U23 national rankings.