JUMPS specialist Becky White has won two gold medals at the British Universities Championships at Birmingham setting Championship Records in both the triple jump and long jump.

The 22-year-old former Blackburn Harrier, from Haslingden, nowadays concentrates on the triple jump and she has risen to eighth in the British all time list with a distance of 12 metres 95 centimetres, only two centimetres below her outdoor best.

Surely that 13 metre barrier will not elude her much longer. The icing on the cake was her victory in the long jump, 5.95m was again an indoor best and within touching distance of the 6.01m she has attained outdoors.

She has improved in each of her competitions this year since being called into the Great Britain Team at the last minute for the Norwich Union International in Glasgow a month ago.

There White managed 12.66m for sixth place, and it was enough for the selectors to choose her for the Spar European Indoor Cup at Leipzig, Germany two weeks ago.

That could have been a disaster as she fell heavily during the warm up then opened with two no jumps, but she kept her cool to post 12.85 metres.

White's reward was a bronze medal as part of the third placed Great Britain Women's Team.

This week she will be competing in both jumps at the AAAs Indoor Championships at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, and in a fortnight the Bath University student will be back in the North West representing a combined Manchester and Liverpool team in a special Inter City contest at Sports City in Manchester.

White qualifies for the team as a member of the Manchester club Sale Harriers.