HE may have won three golds and one silver at these Europeans but Glasgow swimmer Duncan Scott insists he is only scratching the surface with Tokyo 2020 in mind.
The 21-year-old 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 – adding to his 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle titles.
The four set a new championship record in a time of 3min 30.44sec, beating Russia and Germany into second and third 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 after, Scott is now keen to take his European form on to 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.
“We’ll look at ways to improve or look to see if there was anything we could have done differently in the lead up to the meet that might have made it better.
“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. The team swam really well and it’s a great way to end the week.”
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 teammate 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.
The 200m lifted the packed-out Olympiastadion to their feet whilst 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 behind Greece’s Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou, second, and gold-medallist Ekaterini Stefanidi.
“I’m very happy, I knew it would be a battle trying to get one of the medals,” said Bradshaw. “There was obviously two standout favourites but I knew bronze would be up for grabs.
“In the end I managed to get it, I felt like I jumped really well, it’s my first outdoor medal not as a junior or an under-23 so I’m really happy with that.”
Liverpudlian Katarina Johnson-Thompson also leads the heptathlon overnight in Berlin as she edged ahead of long-standing nemesis Nafi Thiam after four events.
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