Controversial ‘plastic Brit’ Cindy Ofili joined sister Tiffany Porter in qualifying for next month’s World Championships by finishing second to Porter in the 100m hurdles at the British Championships in Birmingham on Saturday.

The American-born duo – both wearing Woodford Green with Essex Ladies vests – will represent Great Britain in Beijing after Ofili, 20, followed in Porter’s footsteps and opted to run for the country of their mother Lilian’s birth as opposed to that she has spent her entire life in until this week.

Ofili is one of five athletes at the centre of a new ‘plastic Brit’ storm which Porter has sparked some five years earlier after switching allegiance to Britain in 2010.

Asked if she felt British, Ofili said: “I do, definitely. Obviously I don’t have the accent but I feel ties here. My mum was born here and she has told me so many great things. My brothers were also both born here, in Birmingham and Plymouth.

“I definitely can see [why people may be unhappy] but people are going to say things and I’m just going to continue doing what I do. I’m not worried about other people. I had the choice to run for America, Great Britain and Nigeria and I chose to run for Great Britain so I’m just happy to have the chance to represent them.”

In Birmingham on Saturday Porter and Ofili put the off-track furore behind them to seal success.

Porter, who had qualified by winning heat two in a time of 12.96 whilst Ofili came through heat three victorious in 13.21.

And a couple of hours later it was a Porter-Ofili one-two as the elder of the two clinched gold in 12.83 with the younger sister was just behind in 12.96.

London Olympic Games gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill was beaten into third despite running a season’s best time of 13.10.

In the men’s hammer, Woodford Green with Essex Ladies’ Mark Dry took silver. The 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist managed 73.02 to finish second by just shy of three metres in the final.

On Sunday there was bronze for 2014 Commonwealth Games relay bronze medallist Shana Cox, who secured third in the women’s 400m final.

A time of 52. 64 was enough to clinch bronze but the New York-born sprinter was just outside of the automatic qualification mark for the World Championships in China.

Hollie Redman was seventh in the women’s discus final with a distance of 44.81m, whilst in the women’s pole vault, Katie James cleared 3.75m to finish tied for sixth in the final standings.

Zainab Ceesay took fifth place in the final of the women’s triple jump, her jump of 12.83 coming at the fourth attempt and leaving her 22cm short of the medal positions.

Youcef Zatat missed out on a medal on Sunday in the final of the men’s shot put. His best put of 16.76m came at the third attempt, after opening with a distance of 16.25m.

Scott Rider (Birchfield) took bronze with a put of 17.88m. In fifth was Woodford’s Anthony Oshodi, who managed a best of 16.44.