Meadows runs under two minutes to break British record

JENNY Meadows has broken the two minute barrier on her way to winning 800m gold at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham.

RECORD BREAKING: Jenny Meadows runs under two minutes to break Kelly Holmes's seven year British record (Getty Images)

The 28-year-old ran a time of 1:59.11 minutes to break Kelly Holmes' seven year old British indoor record by one hundredth of a second.

Ukranian Yuliya Krevsun set a personal best to win silver and Great Britain's Vicky Griffiths ran a season's best to claim the bronze finishing more than two seconds behind teammate Meadows.

The world bronze medallist had stated her intention to run under two minutes before next month's World Indoor Championships and will now be confident of continuing this season's success in Doha.

"I knew I was in shape and it's amazing to rewrite the record books," she said.

"My training partner was pacing the race and I felt so good in early in the race that I wanted to pass her!

"But I thought that's too cheeky so I waited and I made my move in the third lap and it felt so good. 

"I wanted to push it on and thought that I wanted to win the race.

 "Of course I am happy with the British record. I wish I had run 1.58 but I am never happy, I always want more."  

In the men's 800m Poland's Marcin Lewandowski topped the podium ahead of Richard Kiplagat from Kenya and a personal best from Great Britain's Andrew Osagie, who won silver and bronze respectively.

Meanwhile, Kate Dennison set her eleventh British pole vault record flying over the bar at 4.60m to finish fifth in the competition.

 "That was good because I was disappointed not to get the height last week at the World trials so I was determined today," said Dennison.

"It's fantastic coming here and jumping with these girls. That is what it is all about.

"It's good to know I'm close to them now. I think once I'm hitting the 4.70s I'll really be in the mix."

Brazilian vaulter Fabiana Murer took the win with a national record of 4.82m.

World champion Phillips Idowu lost out in the triple jump as he could only finish in fifth while Christian Olsson come out with the win on his comeback from injury with 17.32m.

The women's 1500m saw rivals Tirunesh Dibaba and Vivian Cheruyiot go head to head as they both had Meseret Defar's world record in their sights.

The pair were both more than six seconds off world record pace however and it was Dibaba who came out on top to win gold.

Ethiopia's Sentayehu Ejigu came through to win bronze.