SAMTHING SPECIAL!

Kinghorn bids for more golds

World Para Athletics Championship

WHEELCHAIR superstar Sammi Kinghorn has warned her rivals she is not the athlete who bombed in Brazil as she goes for a double dose of gold today.

The Scot, paralysed in a gruesome forklift accident when she was 14, is set to take part in the T53 100m and 800m finals (12.45pm and 6.51pm) and is aiming for a hat-trick of titles.

The 21-year-old has already got the 200m gold in the bag and nicked a bronze in the 400m on Wednesday.

Kinghorn failed to get a medal at the Paralympics in Rio last year but has got shot of her slow start and insists she is flying from the off.

And Kinghorn reckons that she will be motoring at the start and at the finish of the longer race – and her opponents know it.

She said: “My coach Ian Mirfin said after Rio that I lost everyone as soon as the gun went. That’s what I worked on all winter. Now I can say when the gun goes I’m ahead of the girls.

“I have got my 100m on Sunday morning and the 800m at night. I’m glad it’s that way round. The 800m is a tough one, it is tactical – I am going to go out hard. I have got that sprint at the end and all the girls know that.”

The Brits, who have beaten the 13 golds they won at the Doha games two years ago, have other medal chances in Mickey Bushell in the T53 100m and Polly Maton in the T47 long jump.

But Laura Sugar is up against it in the T44 200m where she faces Holland’s ‘Blade Babe’ Marlou van Rhijn who broke the championship record in yesterday’s heat.

Brit Jonathan Broom-edwards (below) admitted he missed a golden chance to finally nail a world title and get one over Polish rival Maciej Lepiato.

Broom-edwards was kicking himself after failing to overhaul Lepiato’s leap of 2.14m in the T44 contest handing the Pole a fourth world gold. But the 29-year-old, who has a club foot, reckons he is narrowing the gap.

He said: “He was there to be had – I clipped 2.16m the other day and I know I’m in a position to push my technique to the next level.”