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Britain’s former world champion sprinter Richard Kilty has announced his retirement from athletics.<\/b><\/p>\n
Kilty, 35, won 60m gold at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland in 2014 before claiming back-to-back European indoor 60m titles in 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n
He was part of Team GB’s bronze medal-winning men’s 4x100m relay squad at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, competing in the heats before Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Zharnel Hughes ran in the final.<\/p>\n
That Olympic medal ensured he would end his career having made every major international podium available to him – both indoors and outdoors.<\/p>\n
In total Kilty, known as the Teesside Tornado, won eight major international medals during his career, including five in relay events.<\/p>\n
As part of Britain’s men’s 4x100m team he also won European Championship gold in 2014, the Commonwealth Games title in 2018, and World Championship silver in 2019.<\/p>\n
However, the British team featuring Kilty, Hughes and Mitchell-Blake was stripped of their Olympic silver medals achieved in Tokyo two years later, after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kilty said that winning a bronze medal at Paris 2024 had completed his Olympic “recovery mission”<\/a> as he ensured he completed the set of major championship medals across his career.<\/p>\n He did not compete in the Olympic final after tearing his Achilles tendon in ensuring Team GB earned automatic qualification for the medal race.<\/p>\n Since the Paris Games, Kilty has begun coaching Britain’s exciting young sprinting talent Louie Hinchliffe, following his stunning breakthrough season<\/a> which led to the 22-year-old joining Kilty on the Olympic podium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n