Sprint star Maria Lyle is celebrating once more after breaking another world record, her third, just days after her 15th birthday.

The teenager, who has cerebral palsy, broke the world record for the 200m T35 event at an IPC Grand Prix in Dubai last Wednesday by clocking 30:53secs – beating her own previous best time of 30.71secs, set last year.

After success in Dubai, she then took part in the Sharjah International Open Athletics meeting, holding off the challenge of experienced Japanese competitor Maya Nakanishi to claim victory (see image above).

And for Lyle, success at the Dubai Grand Prix came as a surprise.

She told Courier Sport: “I am really, really pleased with how it all went – we definitely didn’t expect a world record time, so it was great.” And the Dunbar Gramar School pupil was delighted with the win in the Dubai heat, reward for her efforts closer to home during the winter.

She added: “It’s nice, training at home can be really cold and we weren’t sure how fast my times were [in comparison to others] so it was good to know that my times were good.” And mum Susan echoed that view.

She added: “It can be really tough for her, especially through the winter months so it was good for her. It’s reward for her putting in all the work at Meadowmill over the winter, so fair play to her.” Susan also told how it was a first success for the prodigious Dunbar teenager – a double European championship gold medallist last summer - under the guidance of new coach, Tabo Huntley.

“Maria ran really well in the 100m, and she finished third behind the world champion [Netherlands’ Marlou Van Rhijn] in the mixed category 100m, and then broke the world record in the 200m so it was great for them both, because he’s worked hard with Maria so it was really nice,” she said.

Following success in Dubai, the county sprint ace is now focused on securing selection for this year’s World Championships, which will take place in Doha in October.

Lyle, in her third year at Dunbar Grammar School, explained her preparation for that event.

She said: “I’m going off to for some warm weather training in Tenerife later this month, and then I’ve got a competition in Barcelona in May, and we’ll just see what happens after that.

“Hopefully I get selected for the 100m, 200m and maybe even the relay, and I can do well in those.” And although the World Championships are this season’s goal, Lyle acknowledged that her training regime is geared towards the ‘big one’, the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

“It’s really not that far away – that’s the goal, and that’s what all my training is about, just making sure that everything is geared towards Rio”, she added. Lyle’s on-track success was not the only highlight of her trip to Dubai, though, as she bumped into tennis star Andy Murray just moments after landing in the UAE.

She explained: “I got off the plane in Dubai and saw a woman with an Andy Murray sign, so I asked ‘is that for the real Andy Murray?’ and when she said it was, I decided to wait about for a bit, and when I met him, I decided to ask for a picture.” She later took to social media site Twitter and posted the picture with the tennis ace, who she admits looking up to “as he’s Scottish, and we watch him a lot on the telly”.

Lyle will be hoping to emulate the achievements of her other sporting heroes – Sir Chris Hoy, Usain Bolt and Eric Liddell – as her career progresses.

At just 15, and having broken her own T35 200m world record, and holding the T35 100m record, it seems the possibilities are endless.

Mum Susan added: “She’s got a lot of growing to do, and she’s only going to get stronger, and more experienced, so who knows what lies in front of her.”