Anna Anderson has ended a perfect week by winning the fifth round of the English Junior Fell Championship at Sedbergh Hills to become the English Under-18 Champion.

Although there is still one round of the Championship to go, Beckie Taylor has clinched the bronze medal in the under-14 class, while seven other East Lancashire athletes are still in medal contention. One of them, Joe Johnston, could yet win the Under-14 boy's grouping.

Just a week before, Pendle's Anderson had earned a place in England's U20 Team for the World Mountain Trophy - effectively the sport's World Championship - with an excellent run at Keswick.

The Westholme School student then turned her attention to her A-level results, and on Thursday received the news that she had achieved four Grade As including one of the five best marks in the country for her Biology B Paper.

She is now all set to go to Cambridge next term and is already looking forward to joining the University Hare and Hounds Running Club.

Then to cap her week, she posted another accomplished run at Sedbergh on Sunday. Making light of the windy conditions, the 18-year old beat Skipton's Claire Lilley to record her fourth win in the competition.

After missing the opener at the Wrekin, she has also won at High Rigg, Lothersdale, and Pendle.

Her latest success has brought yet another England call as the first two in the U16 and U18 Championships earn automatic selection for the Open British and Irish Junior Hill Running Championship, to be held at Sugar Loaf Mountain, near Abergavenny in South Wales.

Like Anderson, Taylor attends Westholme School in Blackburn, and she is guaranteed the bronze medal in the U14 class which has been totally dominated by three athletes.

The 13-year old Blackburn Harrier has been third each time as Laura Riches and Melanie Hyder have vied for the title, leaving Emma Spencer of Pendle, currently fifth, unable to dislodge any of them in the final standings.

Blackburn sisters Rachel and Sally Searson are both lying third in class with just the Lantern Pike Race in Derbyshire to go, but Sally in the U12s would appear to have the better chance of a medal after finishing third on Sunday.

In the U16s, Rachel was sixth allowing Rossendale's Emma Flanagan to close the gap to a single point with fourth place, but Hannah Bateson and Rosie Stuart have a race in hand and could catch them.

Although Joe Johnston of Rossendale could become the U14 boys' Champion, the competition is so close that he is not yet assured of winning a medal.

The Wrekin winner could only manage seventh at Sedbergh to lose the Championship lead to Tom Doyle. Jamie Crompton, who was second on Sunday, is also emerging as a major threat and Johnston must finish in the first five in Derbyshire to guarantee a top three finish.

Rossendale's Grant Cunliffe and Phil Bolton were second and third in the U18 race, but Bolton still has a two-point advantage in their battle for second in the series.

However, race winner Jonathan Hare might yet knock them both back. Dale have medal contenders in three of the boys classes, but Joe Kelly's U16 prospects took a dive by not racing on Sunday. The runner-up at Lothersdale is now in fourth spot.

While the others are contemplating the Lantern Pike Race on September 15, Anderson is finalising her preparations for the World Trophy in Switzerland a few days earlier.

By complete co-incidence, her family is going to the Swiss Alps for their summer holidays, and now her father John, who was expecting a rest, is anticipating a completely different holiday running and training with her instead.

She will be home for just six days before flying out there again.