Bradford's Shannan Greenwood has continued her record-breaking exploits as she has blazed a trail through the West Yorkshire Track and Field League this summer.

Not content with creating new league marks, however, the Wibsey youngster has set a new unofficial British mark for ten-year-olds in the long jump.

In a West Yorkshire League meeting at South Leeds Stadium, she leapt 4.60 metres to better the previous best by six centimetres.

The record she beat was 4.54m, set by none other than British sprint ace Katharine Merry in 1984, but to reach her new mark, the ten-year-old St Joseph's Catholic Primary School pupil set a personal best by nine centimetres. Shannan's previous longest leap was 4.51m at an open meeting in Sheffield.

But far from being a long jump specialist - even though her heroine is British international Jade Johnson - the Spenborough Athletics Club member likes all sorts of disciplines. For example, she has been named the best under-11 girl for the second successive year in the West Yorkshire Boys' and Girls' League and has equalled or broken four records in that.

She equalled the league best of 10.9 seconds in the 75-metre sprint, while her records came in the shot (6.70m), the 600 metres (1min 51.4sec) and the long jump (4.60m).

Meanwhile, Shannan also has West Yorkshire Track and Field League Championship records in the long jump (4.35m) and the 600 metres (1min 51.4sec).

"They think a lot of her down at Spenborough," said her mum Melanie Hamilton.

"She would like to have a go at the pentathlon one day as she likes doing everything, but she can only compete in the 800 metres, high jump and hurdles next spring in the league when she is an under-13."

In the meantime, Shannan will have to content herself with open meetings. Last weekend she competed at York in the 75 metres, 600 metres and long jump, winning all three (11.2sec, 1min 54.1sec, 4.26m) and this weekend there is another open meeting at Wakefield.

Her mum added: "I used to go down to Spenborough myself when I was older than Shannan is now, but she is a lot better than I used to be, and now her five-year-old sister Ashton goes down there too."

It has certainly been an astonishing rise for the youngster, who was a beginner at her club only two years ago.

Her coach Stuart Hall said: "She certainly has ability, but it is always difficult to tell what is going to happen when a girl becomes a young woman because of the way their bodies change.

"There is also the danger of over-competing. It could be that Shannan will become a pentathlete or a heptathlete, but she may decide to specialise in the sprints or on middle-distance."