Crawley AC star Charlotte Best emphatically won the Gold in the 800 metres at the English Schools Championships in Sheffield.

The event, which took place on Saturday, is one of the biggest youth meetings in the British athletics calendar.

Not only did Charlotte win the final, she also came first in her heat and semi-final.

The achievement has shown that Best, 18, had real determination to win after her disappointing sixth place at the AAAs Under-20s Championships in Bedford. 

Best, who is a student at Reigate College, has been in excellent form recently.

ELATED Crawley Athletics Club stars Danielle Christmas and Charlotte Best have been earned themselves a unique chance to learn how to become an Olympic champion.

They have been selected as part of a squad of only eight from Great Britain to train for a month in South Africa with double gold medallist Kelly Holmes.
Christmas and Best were among 15 of the best young middle distance runners who went for interviews with Kelly and chiefs from UK Athletics in Birmingham.
And they made the final eight, based upon attitudes to running as decided by Kelly herself.

They will fly out to Kelly's main training base in Potchefstroom, 90 minutes south west of Johannesburg on October 25.

The camp is organised by UK Athletics and is sponsored by Norwich Union.
Kelly said: "I have planned this camp since January and am very pleased that Norwich Union have agreed to fund my initiative.
"I am as keen as ever to show the next generation of athletes all sides of being a full-time athlete, both good and bad and hope these girls will enjoy the experience and return with a strong determination to success."

National Under-17s 800 metres and English Schools Under-17s 1,500m champion Christmas, 16, from Horley said: "It's an amazing opportunity to do warm weather training and altitude.
"Kelly Holmes really deserves her success – she's a real inspiration to most sports people, not just athletics and I am really looking forward to working with her.
"It would be good to make the Olympics and it's a case of sticking with athletics as long as my body allows."

She will be taking college work out with her to keep up with her A-level courses she has just started at Reigate College.
Christmas was on BBC1 TV on Saturday when she represented England against the home countries in the Junior Women's Great North Mile, finishing third behind Scotland's Morag Maclart and Azmera Gerezgi from the Republic of Ireland.

Golden girl Holmes gave another great example to her young unstudies, winning the Senior Women's race.

Best, 19, from Salfords, is a former national Under-17s 800m champion and won a bronze at the National Under-20s Championships this year.
She said: "To learn from someone like Kelly herself will be amazing. It will be springtime out in South Africa which will be nice and will be great to have a month's view of a full-time athlete.
"It will be nice to be with a friend (Danielle) and is great for Crawley Athletics Club."

Christmas' dad is club chairman Nigel. he said: "It's a trip of a lifetime for the girls. It's not just a training camp. It will give them an education into what life is like as a full-time athlete so they will learn about psychology, diet and physiotherapy.

"It's tremendous for our club to be supplying 25 percent of the athletes for this venture and it is a big achievement for their coach, Charlotte's father Mark."

Crawley Athletics Club star Charlotte Best, one of the eight girls selected by Kelly Holmes to join her in South Africa for 'On Camp with Kelly,' has been forced to withdraw due to burst appendix.