HEREFORD polevaulter Irie Hill has gone a long way to achieving her double aim for the summer and qualify for both the European Championships and Commonwealth Games.

At the AAA Championships in Birmingham, which doubled as the European trials, Hill cleared a season best 4.15m, the same height she cleared at the Commonwealth Games trials last month.

This gave her the silver medal behind British record holder Janine Whitlock, who won the event with 4.35m but who may not now make either Games after a positive drugs test at the Commonwealth Games trials.

Hill needs to clear 4.25m before next weekend in order to guarantee a place in the European team, but she has cleared the European standard of 4m, and finished in the first two at the trials, so she may get a place based on this.

Her aim will now be to put this beyond date by clearing 4.25m at the British League cup match next Sunday.

Hill said: "I really wanted to jump 4.25m today, I know I can get it, and I will just have to work on it for next weekend. At least I will have my coach, and husband, back from his four-week trip to Australia, so that might just give me the extra incentive I need."