Jamieson using Commonwealth heartache to fuel World Champs tilt

Jamieson had high hopes at last summer’s Commonwealth Games, the 26-year-old becoming the poster boy in the build up for the event taking place in his home city of Glasgow.

However he was forced to settle for 200m breaststroke silver as fellow Scot Ross Murdoch recorded a new Commonwealth record of 2:07.30 minutes to take the title.

That silver, the same colour he won at London 2012, means Jamieson will head into this summer’s World Championships in Kazan still searching for his maiden major title.

And the Scot is determined to use his Glasgow heartache to finally check out the view from the top step of the podium, even if he believes he might need a world record to do exactly that.

"It's important to use that experience as motivation," Murdoch told sportinglife. "Those memories aren't just going to disappear so I think trying to ignore them and put them out of your mind completely is quite dangerous.

"The only thing you can do is try to use it to your advantage and try your best to ensure you don't experience those emotions again.

"As an event, I do look back fondly on the Games. I was in such a unique position there and it was great to be involved, especially because the city did such a great job in staging the event.

"But from a performance point of view I didn't enjoy it that week. I don’t want to go through that again and that's what I mean by using it as motivation for the future.

"The last piece of the puzzle is to get that major gold – and that's really what I've been training towards the last couple of years.

"There's been too many people bunching up close to the world record over the past 12 months so I think this will be the year it'll be broken."

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