Asher-Smith vows to go faster after national 100m record

The 19-year old stormed to a national 100m record in 11.02 seconds at a World Challenge Meeting in Holland.

It erased Montell Douglas's previous best of 11.05 secs from the record books and Asher-Smith believes it's only a matter of time before she goes below 11 seconds.

"I think it being May is hopefully a good point for me to go faster later in the season," said Asher-Smith, who is a former world junior champion and won 60m silver at this year's European Indoor Championships.

"I was absolutely over the moon. I really wasn't expecting to run that time with the kind of race that I ran so I was really happy.

"I've got a few things to work on so I think that points to me being able to replicate and do a bit better later in the season.

"It went in a bit of a blur. I remember finishing and I wasn’t completely happy with it because my start was alright but it wasn’t as good as it was in Manchester and in the end bit I felt like I tightened up and lost my form."

Three years ago Great Britain failed to qualify a women's 4x100m team to the London 2012 but encouragingly a host of sprinting talent is now breaking through alongside Asher-Smith.

Asha Philip ran a 11.10 sec personal best to set the third fastest time by a British woman in Hengelo.

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