THERE was a brace of golds for the IoW's Bryony Frost, who led the way home in the under-20 women's 800 and 1500m - the latter in a championship best of 4min 35.17sec. On both occasions, she pipped her twin sister Kathryn to the winning line.

A surprise entrant in the senior women's discus was Southampton City stalwart Irene Timmis. Making her first county appearance in five years after a hip injury, the vet-35 took bronze with 28.38sec behind Basingstoke's 40.14 winner Joan Macpherson.

At 41, Team Solent's Carol Dawkins has only ever missed one county championships in 27 years - that because of glandular fever.

There were no medals this time round for the evergreen campaigner, but she still competed in the 400m flat and hurdles.

FOR FULL LIST OF RESULTS FOR THE HAMPSHIRE AA TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS SEE PAGE 47 OF THE DAILY ECHO ON MAY 16.