Christian Malcolm Disappointed With Bronze

Christian Malcolm has revealed that he is bitterly disappointed at only picking up a bronze medal in the 200m final yesterday.

It was at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur that Malcolm claimed his first major medal at the age of nineteen. Now, twelve years later, Malcolm was hoping to be stood on top of the medal podium.

But it was not to be for the veteran sprinter as England's Leon Baptiste who took the gold medal with Lansford Spence, who finished like a train, taking silver.

Speaking to Yahoo Sports the Welshman said: "I came here for gold, so I'm pretty disappointed to be leaving with a bronze.

"It's very tough but it wasn't to be.  If I am honest, it's been a good year for me because I only started training this year in about April.

"I missed a lot of winter training with Achilles issues and two weeks before the AAAs, I didn't know if I'd be fit enough to run them. However, I ran it and I won it.

"Then I went to the Europeans and I got a medal there. At one point I thought I hadn't got enough in the tank for the Commonwealths, but I've got a medal here too."

And while he was disappointed for himself Malcolm had nothing but praise for winner Baptiste. "Hats off to Leon. He's turned it round this season and maybe proved to the selectors he should have got a chance at the Europeans. Well done to him because he deserves it."

Malcolm had bee blighted by injury in recent years but proved that he could still mix it on a global stage when he took a silver medal at the European championships earlier this summer, just piped to gold by Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre.

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