10 Jun 2009

Miller gains B standard for athletics world champs

12:05 pm on 10 June 2009

The New Zealand athlete Andrea Miller has taken a step closer to competing at the world championships in Berlin after breaking her national 100 metre hurdles record in Geneva.

Miller clipped her national record by two hundredths of a second in winning the race in 13.10 seconds.

Miller bettered the B standard of 13.11s for the World Athletic Championships in August. The A standard is 12.96s.