{"id":28492,"date":"2021-01-28T05:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/dina-asher-smith-targets-european-gold-in-her-first-indoor-season-for-three-years\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T05:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:28:44","slug":"dina-asher-smith-targets-european-gold-in-her-first-indoor-season-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/dina-asher-smith-targets-european-gold-in-her-first-indoor-season-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Asher-Smith targets European gold in her first indoor season for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dina Asher-Smith has given a huge boost to British medal hopes for the upcoming European Indoor Championships with confirmation that she plans to complete her first full indoor season for three years by targeting gold at the event. Asher-Smith – like many of the world\u2019s leading athletes – has opted to miss the short indoor season for most of her senior career, instead using the winter period to focus on training for the summer outdoor campaign. But with the coronavirus pandemic meaning she has not competed internationally since winning the world 200 metres title in October 2019, Asher-Smith will attempt to claim a confidence-boosting 60m gold in Torun, Poland, at the start of March, ahead of the Olympics later this year. \u201cI\u2019d love to go to the European Indoors,\u201d Asher-Smith told Telegraph Sport ahead of her first international race for 16 months at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meet in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Friday. \u201cThis year is unique so whatever my plans may be, we\u2019re all going to have to be flexible. I haven\u2019t done a championships indoors since 2016. I\u2019m a completely different athlete now and it would be really fun to do a 60m championships. Hopefully I\u2019ll do European Indoors.\u201d Asher-Smith equalled the British 60m record when she ran 7.08sec in 2015, but a lack of subsequent focus on indoor competition has seen her lose that crown to Asha Philip, who clocked 7.06sec in 2017. Philip will line up against Asher-Smith at the Karlsruhe meet, which also features fellow British athletes Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Elliot Giles and Andrew Butchart. On her prospects for the race, Asher-Smith, who holds British 100m and 200m records said: \u201cI\u2019m honestly just so excited to race. I am unbelievably excited to get out there and not just do my job but do what I\u2019m passionate about. \u201cI haven\u2019t done 60m since 2018 because I\u2019ve always been trying to train through and focus on the outdoor season so I\u2019m really excited to give it a genuine go this year. \u201cI have absolutely no idea about what I can do. It\u2019s been a very, very long time since I\u2019ve done a 60m season. \u201cI would love to get the British record but we\u2019ll see. It has been a strange year so we\u2019re just going to try and go out there and race as quickly as we can. If that comes with some fast performances then we\u2019re all happy.\u201d Since winning three medals at the 2019 World Championships, Asher-Smith\u2019s only appearances on the track have been low-key 75m and 750m races at her local track in Bromley last summer. On why she chose not to compete on the Diamond League circuit last year, she said: \u201cI only had eyes for Tokyo [Olympics] and once [lockdown] lifted I thought I\u2019m not going to pretend to myself that everything is the same. I wasn\u2019t going to pretend that everything was normal. \u201cWe had an extra year so what was the wisest and best way to use that time? We came to the decision that it was best to build – an opportunity to get stronger in bits that might have otherwise have taken more time to work on. \u201cSo we thought it was best to get a strong foundation and use that time to train. Then when 2021 came I would be in a good place physically and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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