ANOTHER scorching personal best time was not enough for Ashley Nemits to win a medal in tonight’s Under 20s European Athletics Championships 400m final in Israel.

Appleton-based Nemits came home fifth, just 0.15 of a second outside of the bronze medal place.

Her time, 53.00 seconds, knocked a further 0.38 seconds off the stunning PB she had set in the semi-finals.

This means over the space of three races, including Monday’s heat, she has run the distance faster than she has done before by more than a second – a huge amount in this event.

Women’s 400m final result:

1 (CZE) MANUEL Lurdes Gloria 51.94

2 (FRA) DEAU Alexe 52.53

3 (NED) VAN DER SCHOOT Myrte 52.85

4 (SLO) ZBIČAJNIK Karolina 52.99

5 (GBR) NEMITS Ashley 53.00

6 (TUR) TULUM Eda Nur 53.45

7 (ESP) PRIETO Ana 53.54

8 (NED) DE BLAAUW Britt 54.09

The 19-year-old former Bridgewater High School student, who continued her education at Warrington and Vale Royal College, has been making her major championship debut for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the International Athletics Stadium in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.

Nemits is ex-Warrington Athletics Club who now runs for Wigan and District under Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows.

She has been in the form of her life for much of the year.

She achieved a then personal best of 54.01secs as she won silver for the Great Britain under 20s team at the Mannheim Gala in Germany in June.

There she also raced the third leg of the 4x400m relay in which GB secured silver.

Those achievements followed up the Co-op employee's previous weekend's success in the England Athletics U20/U23 Open Championships in Chelmsford, where she won her 400m heat and then finished second in the final.

The Cheshire champion’s performances were all the more impressive because she had been suffering with a foot injury.