Scott: Euro success only the beginning ahead of world stage
HE may have won three golds and one silver at these Europeans but Duncan Scott insists he is only scratching the surface with Tokyo 2020 in mind.
The 21- year- old Glaswegian finished off a superb individual week with victory in the men’s 4x100m medley relay last night, alongside Nicholas Pyle, James Guy and Adam Peaty.
The four set a new championship record in a time of 3min 30.44sec, beating Russia and Germany, to complete a superb week for Great Britain in the pool that saw them claim nine golds and 24 medals in total.
And with the World Championships in South Korea next year, followed by the Olympics in Tokyo 12 months later, Scott is now keen to take his European form onto the world stage.
“It’s about looking at the little things and the finer details which will make a bigger difference in years to come,” he said. “Coming into that relay team a couple of years ago I had to step up my performances with the likes of Jimmy and Peaty being in the team.
“They’re world- class performers and to be in a team with them and then to have someone like Nick come in and raise his performance is amazing.”
Two more medals came Britain’s way on the track in Berlin as Nethaneel Mitchell- Blake stormed to silver and Holly Bradshaw took bronze in the pole vault. London’s Mitchell- Blake lined up with team- mate Adam Gemili in the 200m final and raced to second, pipping Switzerland’s Alex Wilson to the post by milliseconds with a time of
20.04. Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev set a new Championships record at 19.76 and Gemili ran a season’s best time but could only finish fifth.
Inside the track Bradshaw was jumping her way to European bronze. The British record holder hit her mark with her first two jumps and cleared 4.75m on the third attempt to take third place.
Liverpudlian Katarina JohnsonThompson also leads the heptathlon overnight in Berlin as she edged ahead of long- standing nemesis Nafi Thiam after four events.
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