Gemili targets more medals after London success
BySportsbeat
Published 25/08/2017 at 16:34 GMT
World champion sprinter Adam Gemili wants more medal success at the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships in 2018 after his golden summer in London.
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The 23-year-old sprinter roared to gold at the London Olympic Stadium earlier this month as part of the British 4x100m squad at the World Championships.
It was Gemili's third senior career relay medal after European Championship success in Zurich 2014, where he also won the 200m gold, and Amsterdam 2016.
Berlin will host the championships in August next year, four months after the Gold Coast welcomes the Commonwealth Games to Australia in another busy year for athletics.
But Gemili is far from concerned about peaking for two major championships next summer and is confident he can add to his growing medal tally in 2018.
"It would mean an awful lot to go out and build on this success, I would love to go and achieve more and become hopefully one of the best sprinters in the world," he said.
"I want to do both (Commonwealths and Europeans), and I'm going to do my best to get to both championships and get myself in good shape.
"There's a good gap between them which is good for me, you'll probably be able to have a little rest after the Commonwealths, if I make that, and then push onto Europeans and try and go for medals.
"That's what I'm in the sport for, I want to win and be the best and I'll do my best to try and achieve that."
This summer's athletics season is effectively over after the Diamond League final in Zurich this week with many of the world's top talent now switching to their winter programmes.
And Gemili says he will enter his winter training programme with renewed vigour having picked up gold alongside CJ Ujah, Danny Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
"It's a great little motivation for the winter months having achieved that (gold) and working to achieve that again and have that same feeling," he added.
"It's going to really spur me on to get through the hard winter cold sessions. It's still a bit surreal and I'm still coming back down to Earth how crazy it was that we won it and became world champions.
"It's a bit nuts but it was a fantastic day and a weird few days to take it in and realise it did happen but I wouldn't change it for the world it's been amazing."
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