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Britain’s Molly Caudery claimed the overall World Indoor Tour Gold title with victory at the final meeting of the series in Madrid.<\/p>\n
Reigning world indoor pole vault champion Caudery, 24, cleared a season’s best 4.85m as she took maximum points and beat Slovenia’s Tina Sutej to the title.<\/p>\n
Sutej, who had led the standings going into the final, was the only other athlete to clear 4.70m but she had no response to Caudery’s first-time vault over 4.75m.<\/p>\n
It meant England’s Caudery, who added to her win in Karlsruhe and second place in Lievin, accumulated 27 points with her best three series performances – three points ahead of Sutej.<\/p>\n
She will be one of Britain’s medal hopes at next week’s European Indoor Athletics Championships, one year after winning her first major title at the World Indoors in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The European Indoor Championships take place in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, from 6-9 March.<\/p>\n
Also competing will be fellow Briton Bianca Williams, who ran a personal best time of 7.16 seconds in the women’s 60m to place second on the night in Madrid.<\/p>\n
That performance came one week after Williams lowered her best to 7.19 secs when winning the British indoor title for the first time.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n