MELISSA Courtney-Bryant completed her disrupted track season with ninth place in the Diamond League 1,500m final.

The Poole Athletic Club star ran 3:59.75 in Brussels, exactly five seconds behind the race winner, triple Olympic champion and world record holder, Faith Kipyegon.

This was Courtney-Bryant’s second successive sub-four-minute clocking for the distance and achieved the qualifying time for next year’s World Championships in Tokyo.

She also recently finished fourth in the Fifth Avenue Mile road race in New York with 4:19.9.

Three Dorset athletes scored top-ten finishes at the rearranged English National Cross-Country Championships.

Poole AC’s Mark Ruby missed a junior men’s medal by six seconds as he finished the 10km course in fourth position (33:40). Oliver James of Bournemouth AC was sixth (33:47), having gained Welsh Championships silver earlier in the year.

His BAC club-mate Isabel Cherrett was seventh in the under-15 girls 4km event (15:15).

English National Cross-Country Championships at Weston Park: Dorset Results (Poole AC unless stated):

Senior Men (12km): 129 Felix Dennison 45:33, 148 Morgan Tame 46:43, 247 Felix Wright 50:59

Junior Men (10km): 4 Mark Ruby 33:40, 6 Oliver James (BAC) 33:47

Under-17 Men (6km): 22 Charlie Collins 19:42

Under-13 Boys (3km): 37 Theo Cobley 11:38 Under-15 Girls (4km): 7 Isabel Cherrett (BAC) 15:15

Under-13 Girls (3km): 69 Abigail Moors 13:19, 233 Jessica Moors 17:02