Caudery claims World Indoor Tour Gold title

Britain's Molly Caudery claimed the overall World Indoor Tour Gold title with victory at the final meeting of the series in Madrid.

Reigning world indoor pole vault champion Caudery, 24, cleared a season's best 4.85m as she took maximum points and beat Slovenia's Tina Sutej to the title.

Sutej, who had led the standings going into the final, was the only other athlete to clear 4.70m but she had no response to Caudery's first-time vault over 4.75m.

It meant England's Caudery, who added to her win in Karlsruhe and second place in Lievin, accumulated 27 points with her best three series performances - three points ahead of Sutej.

She will be one of Britain's medal hopes at next week's European Indoor Athletics Championships, one year after winning her first major title at the World Indoors in Glasgow.

The European Indoor Championships take place in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands from 6-9 March.

Also competing will be fellow Briton Bianca Williams, who ran a personal best time of 7.16 seconds in the women's 60m to place second on the night in Madrid.

That performance came one week after Williams lowered her personal best to 7.19 secs to win the British indoor title for the first time.