SOUTHAMPTON AC’S globe-trotting 100 metres star Oli Bromby has finished just outside the medals in the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.

The 17-year-old Shirley-based powerhouse has done the club proud, reaching his second international final in his first year on the world stage, writes Wendy Gee.

His fourth-placed finish matches his achievement earlier this summer at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Colombia.

The 100m heats, semi-finals and final all took place on the first day of the championships in Apia, Samoa.

Bromby, a student at Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, eased safely through his heat in second place and came runner-up again in his semi to book a place in the final.

South Africa’s Tlotliso Gift Leotlela struck gold in a rapid 10.20 seconds, followed by Bromby’s England teammate Rechmial Miller – the World Youth bronze medallist – in 10.39.

There was a blanket finish for bronze, with Scotland’s Cameron Tindle just edging it in 10.42 seconds, closely followed by Bromby, whose fourth-placed time of 10.45 was just outside his personal best of 10.42.

Bromby is joined in Samoa by Southampton clubmate Sophie Merritt from Newbridge, near Cadnam.

Merritt, who attends Peter Symonds College, is due to compete in the women’s discus and shot put.

Two more Southampton athletes, Adam Jones and Andy Douglas, came away with titles from the Sainbury's School Games, for under-17s, held in Manchester.

Jones cleared 2.02 metres to win the high jump and Douglas topped the pole vault with 4.50. Eddie Jenkinson was fifth in the discus, throwing 45.44.

That followed yet more club success at the England Under-15/17 Championships in Bedford where, in appallingly wet conditions, multi-eventer Amaya Scott took the under-15 girls' high jump title with 1.69 and Douglas continued his domination of the under-17 men's pole vault with 4.51.