Molly Caudery says she is “living my dream” after setting a world-leading mark this year of 4.85m in the pole vault at the UK Indoor Championships.
The 23-year-old from Cornwall’s jump was the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist’s personal best clearance.
Her effort in Birmingham puts her among the favourites for next month’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
“It’s just amazing. It’s unbelievable to have opened my season like this,” she told BBC Sport.
“I’m so grateful and I’m loving every minute of it.”
Caudery, who was fifth in last summer’s World Championships in Budapest, has had a superb start to 2024 having increased her personal best by 0.10m from the 4.75m she set in the final in Hungary, external in August.
“My expectations have gone through the roof and I’ve achieved already more than I wanted to,” she added.
“But that puts me in such a good place for the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
“I think having a home crowd there – the noise in here today was amazing and I think being there, it’s going to be great.”
