Jenny Meadows seeks world glory after breaking Kelly Holmes 800m record

By Gareth A Davies Published: 8:26PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

Record breaker: Jenny Meadows savours her success Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Inspiration at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday had come from dual Olympic sources as Meadows marked down the stand in Olympic hold up Holmes"s jot down by 0.1sec to finish in 1 min 59.11 sec.

Dame Kelly Holmes, a VIP guest, was trackside to extol Meadows thereafter and hours progressing Meadows had witnessed former enemy Amy Williams claiming the initial particular Winter Games bullion award for Britain given Robin Cousins in 1980.

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Williams and Meadows had been rivals in 2002 at the British Under-23 Championships in Bedford over 400m. Meadows kick Williams, who shifted to winter sports in 2003. Meadows has simply upped her area and her game.

"It is such an moving tale," she pronounced of Williams"s bullion medal. "I was examination that on the headlines and it gives you crow bumps when someone from Britain does that sort of performance. It"s one of those moments where she will go in to story and I"m anticipating I can do a small of that myself.

"When Kelly did the stand in bullion in Athens I was still using 400m and usually motionless that winter to move to the 800m. When you see a British contestant win at a tellurian eventuality it creates you think, "Maybe I"ve got a chance". She"s really been a outrageous purpose indication for me.

"It"s still utterly tough for me to get used to being on the podium. It"s a total new mindset."

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