VICTORIA WEIR
HAVING won the English Schools senior girls’ 1500m steeplechase title in a UK age-group record earlier this year, 18-year-old Victoria Weir cannot help but wonder where her athletics career could take her.
Although the City of Plymouth athlete’s long-term goal is to race internationally, she is not forgetting the real reason she is in the sport. “A dream would be to represent my country,” she says. “However, my definite long-term target is to make sure that whatever I end up doing in athletics, I am doing it because I love running and want to use my talent, rather than anything else. I’ll continue to train hard and see where that takes me.”