Carley Wenham and Craig Ivemy have raced to national gold medal glory.

Wenham (Ifield Community College) won the junior girls' 100m title and Ivemy (Ringmer Community College) the intermediate boys' 3,000m at the All England Schools Championships in Nottingham.

Ivemy will now represent England at the Home Schools' Under-17s International in Glasgow this weekend, while Wenham is considering whether to bid for the AAA Junior Championships in Birmingham next month.

Wenham, who competes for the Crawley club, dedicated her triumph to her grandfather Ralph.

She said: "He has not been very well. I hope my win cheers him up. I'll show the gold medal to him this week.

"He has always supported my athletics and I love him lots."

Wenham was delighted to go one better after winning a silver medal last year.

She said: "It was amazing feeling when I crossed the line and knew I'd got the gold. It put me on Cloud Nine. It was the best moment of my life.

"After what happened last year I was determined to go for gold. I had a smashing time."

Wenham breezed through her heat in 12.21sec and set the same time in the semi-final.

She saved her best until last to win the final by nearly three metres in a personal best 12.08sec.

Wenham said: "The final did not feel that easy and I thought it was a good race. Joscelynn Hopeson, the Surrey girl, always starts fast so I was fighting to catch her because she was leading at half distance.

"I thought she was much closer to me at the finish so I could not ease off. I was surprised she finished more than two metres behind. The final was a repeat of our first round heat where Joscelynn again started very fast and I had to catch her.

"I have not decided whether I will run in the AAA Championships next month but I might enter the 100m and 200m."

Ivemy was in a class of his own in the under-17s' 3,000m He finished seventh last year but dominated at Nottingham.

Ivemy was always up with the frontrunners and swept to victory by nearly 20m in 8min.43.94sec, just one second outside his personal best.

He said: "I'm overjoyed. I thought I was in with a chance of a medal and was determined to make it a good colour.

"The early pace was slow and conditions quite warm, but the race went more or less as I had planned with my coach Tony Elder.

"I led after two laps and lifted the pace, but after five laps I still felt it was a little slow so I injected a little more. This spread the field and when I upped the pace again with just over one lap to go, no one stayed with me.

"I did not come under any pressure on the final lap and despite the early pace, I was still only one second off my personal best which suggests I could run several seconds faster if the early tempo is quicker."

There were intermediate silver medals for Angmering's Emma Perkins, defending her high jump title, Worthing High sprinter Wade Bennett-Jackson, who won the junior 100m last year, and Chichester High's Ellen Howarth-Brown in the 300m hurdles.

Howarth-Brown was entered in the wrong event at the Sussex Schools Championships where she chased home Eastbourne's Amala Onuora in the 200m.

She was selected instead for Sussex in the 300m hurdles in which county schools' champion Jenny Bliss (Blatchington Mill), fifth last year, was expected to challenge for a medal.

Unfortunately for Bliss she hit a hurdle in the home straight, was thrown off her stride and failed to make the final.

Howarth-Brown proved an able deputy and was second in a personal best 44.36sec to earn an England vest for Glasgow.

Perkins had a tremendous battle with South Yorkshire's Jessica Ennis and they both soared to a personal best 1.80m for a dead heat.

She lost the jump-off but will compete with Ennis in Glasgow.

Bennett-Jackson went close to completing a title double at 100m.

Craig Pickering, from Buckinghamshire, fifth behind the Worthing runner last year, just managed to hang on for victory.

Amala Onuora (Willingdon), sixth in the Intermediate 100m 12 months ago, stepped up to the 200m this season and repeated the placing. She clocked 25.49sec.

Ivemy completed a double triumph 24 hours later when he successfully defended his Sussex under-17s' 3,000m title at Broadbridge Heath.

Helped in the early stages by Stephen Jules, from Hastings, who ran the first 1,000m faster than the runners at Nottingham, Ivemy eased to a comfortable victory in 9min.06.6sec.