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Ellie Baker set a new championship record to win 1500m gold at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n The 24-year-old held off Katie Snowden to claim a maiden British title and break Zola Budd’s 1986 mark with a time of four minutes 6.73 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Richard Akinyebo produced a personal best time of 21.10 to clinch men’s 200m gold ahead of Stephen Baffour.<\/span><\/p>\n In the women’s long jump, Jazmin Sawyers won gold with a 6.73m leap.<\/span><\/p>\n It was a first national indoor title in seven years for Sawyers, a triple British outdoor champion, and seals her place at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March.<\/span><\/p>\n In the men’s 1500m, <\/span>Neil Gourley<\/strong> edged George Mills to take gold in 3:41.20.<\/span><\/p>\n Success Eduan<\/strong> took the women’s 200m crown with a season’s best effort of 23.49.<\/span><\/p>\n Scott Lincoln<\/strong> secured his 15th British title in the men’s shot put with a best throw of 20.36m while <\/span>Sophie McKinna<\/strong> clinched her third indoor national crown with a 17.20m putt.<\/span><\/p>\n With a best clearance of 2.16m, <\/span>William Grimsey<\/strong> became national high jump champion for the first time while <\/span>Morgan Lake<\/strong>, who won silver at last year’s Commonwealth Games, took gold in the women’s event with a best jump of 1.90m.<\/span><\/p>\n Jude Bright-Davies<\/strong> produced a personal best of 16.05m to win the men’s triple jump.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 400m, <\/span>Sam Reardon<\/strong> clinched the men’s title with a time of 46.96, 0.11 seconds ahead of second-placed Ben Higgins, while <\/span>Amarachi Pipi<\/strong> took women’s gold in 52.52.<\/span><\/p>\n Guy Learmonth<\/strong> won his fourth UK indoor 800m title in 1:47.43, beating Ben Claridge and James McCurry, while <\/span>Isabelle Boffey<\/strong> stormed to a maiden women’s crown with a time of 2:03.27, finishing ahead of Jenny Selman and Abigail Ives.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, <\/span>James West<\/strong> secured his European spot with a 7:49.78 winning run in the men’s 3000m while <\/span>Melissa Courtney-Bryant<\/strong> fended off Hannah Nuttall to seal her second British indoor 3000m title in 8:50.76.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 3000m racewalks, <\/span>Abigail Jennings<\/strong> claimed women’s gold while <\/span>Callum Wilkinson<\/strong> won his first indoor title with a world-leading time of 11:00.98.<\/span><\/p>\n Para-athlete <\/span>Aled Davies<\/strong> broke his own world indoor shot put record, setting a new F42 best of 16.39m as he finished fifth competing against non-para competitors. <\/span><\/p>\n At the Dutch Indoor Championships, Femke Bol broke the women’s 400m indoor world record which had stood for 41 years.<\/span><\/p>\nBol breaks women’s 400m indoor world record<\/h3>\n