BOURNEMOUTH 800 metres star Charlotte Moore justified her invitation as a guest runner by securing a stunning second place at the Norwich Union Great Britain against USA junior international.

Sixteen-year-old Moore's training has been hampered recently by an ankle injury she sustained when tripped in the European Youth Olympics final in Spain four weeks ago.

But the Bournemouth School for Girls pupil showed no ill effects as she clocked two minutes 6.89 seconds - her second fastest time of the year - to take silver behind fierce rival Sheffield's Rebecca Lyne at Stoke-on-Trent.

Moore looked comfortable on the last lap and made her trademark break for home 250m out.

However, Lyne, who is three years older than Moore, tracked her younger opponent all the way and secured victory in 2.06:10.

The BAC girl, who wore her club vest during the race, finished almost a second ahead of Britain's second string runner Olivia Hines (Herne Hill).

Moore's mother Alison believes her daughter should take a lot of heart from the race.

She said: "Both Rebecca and Olivia are in their last year as under-20s and represented GB at the European Junior Championships in Italy last month.

"Charlotte's had a horrendous graze on her ankle since Spain which is only just healing. She was having trouble training because the graze kept opening up, it was quite nasty.

"She was devastated after what happened at the Youth Olympics so we entered her for an event in Manchester a few days later to get Spain out of her system and she smashed her pb.

"Charlotte also raced in Glasgow and although she's never beaten Rebecca Lyne, she's getting closer with each race which is very encouraging. Charlotte was the underdog on Saturday, she had nothing to prove and she put in a very good performance."

Moore was not the only BAC athlete to enjoy success at Stoke.

Triple jumper Rachel Peacock leapt an excellent 12.01 metres, just short of her personal best, to take third place behind American N Tony (12.87m).

And GB representative hurdler Sian Scott, who clinched silver at the European Youth Olympics, finished fourth in the 400m event in 61.02 secs.

But there was disappointment for Louise Damen, representing Great Britain, who was forced to pull out of the 3,000m at the 2,000m mark.

Damen, who begins her degree at Loughborough University next month, has struggled to return to full fitness after being laid low by a virus earlier this year.

The talented 18-year-old also missed out on her fifth consecutive English Schools' title in July after sustaining a septic blister and her coach Julie Davies has advised Damen to take a month off to recuperate fully.