Merry was one of many first to congratulate her, with the Olympic bronze medallist posting on X, exterior: “The file stood for a very good period of time. Amber wasn’t even born once I sped my brief again and sides across the NIA [National Indoor Arena]!”
Anning has already had a style of medal success, profitable 4x400m relay bronze on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, following a silver in the identical occasion on the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
The Scottish metropolis will host the World Indoors in March and that might be the place Anning breaks her subsequent goal – the 50.02-second UK indoor 400m file, held by five-time world medallist Nicola Sanders since 2007.
Anning is one in all a variety of British athletes hoping to enhance their performances by coaching in America, with three of the ladies’s relay quartet that received world bronze final 12 months all residing there.
There will probably be fierce competitors for locations in Crew GB’s Olympic squad this summer time, with a top-two end on the UK Athletics Championships wanted to ensure particular person 400m choice.
A decrease end at these trials will go away selectors to think about different standards, together with world rankings, kind and former worldwide success.
“There’s tons extra to offer – I do not need to be complacent,” mentioned Anning, who was dissatisfied to overlook out on the earlier Olympics in Tokyo three years in the past.