A CARDENDEN athlete has eyes on taking on the world after throwing up another national track and field championship title win.

Andy Bruce was in action at the British Masters Championships in London at the weekend 12 months after picking up a javelin gold medal at the British Masters Indoor Track & Field and Winter Throws Championships, and he maintained that form with another winning performance.

The championship took place at the capital's prestigious Lee Valley Athletics Centre and Andy, 46, competed in the JT800 M45 category for athletes aged between 45-50.

He won the event last year with a season's best throw of 39.08 metres but this year he produced an even longer distance of 41.06m, a season's best.

Andy, who is a former 400m runner and javelin thrower with Pitreavie Amateur Athletics Club, is currently ranked number one in the UK in the V45 category and 11th overall in the JT800 discipline, was pleased to take the title and is already looking towards next year.

The World Master Athletics Championships will take place in Malaga, Spain, in September 2018 and he said: "There are a lot of things for me to work on but there were some good guys from England that were competing. It comes at one of the hardest times of the year for training; I've only really been back after the winter in the last couple of weeks, so I'm happy. I've got a lot more in the tank and know what I'm doing wrong.

"A couple of the English guys actually train at Lee Valley, where they have indoor facilities for javelin, which already puts me at a bit of a disadvantage. I was a bit rusty but I was pleased with my performance, and I'll be competing at the East of Scotland (district) then the Scottish Masters at the end of June.

"The European Masters are in Denmark in the first week of August, so I've got my eye on that and the World Masters in Malaga next year. I've never been to a World Masters so it would be great and I think with another couple of good winters, I'd be there or thereabouts."

Andy's winning throw of 41.06m placed him ahead of second-placed Peter Evans (36.17) and third-placed Dutchman Jeroen Van Calker (33.16).