‘I’m revved up and able to go’: Daryll Neita revels in ‘supercar’ comparisons as she will get set to do battle with fellow Brit Dina Asher-Smith in subsequent week’s World Indoor Tour last after victory over 60m in Birmingham
- Daryll Neita ran a brand new 60m private greatest of seven.05seconds in Berlin final week
- The sprinter will race in opposition to British rival Dina Asher-Smith in Birmingham
- Won on the UK Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Saturday
Daryll Neita says she is ‘revved up and ready’ to problem team-mate Dina Asher-Smith this 12 months after turning into British 60metres champion on Saturday.
Neita was likened to a ‘supercar’ by her Italian coach Marco Airale this week and he or she raced to victory on the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham in a time of seven.17secs.
The 26-year-old ran a brand new 60m private greatest of seven.05secs in Berlin final week, only one hundredth of a second exterior the nationwide file lately set by Asher-Smith, who skipped Saturday’s occasion.
Neita will tackle Asher-Smith in subsequent week’s World Indoor Tour Final on the identical Utilita Arena observe, forward of additional head-to-heads outside this summer time, culminating in the World Championships in Budapest in August.
‘I read my coach comparing me to a supercar and he is right – I am revved up and ready to go,’ stated Neita, who received bronze medals in the 100m finally summer time’s Commonwealth Games and European Championships and can race on the European Indoors subsequent month.
Daryll Neita welcomed the ‘supercar’ comparisons as she maintained her spectacular kind
The sprinter received in Birmingham over 60m forward of subsequent week’s battle with Dina Asher-Smith
’I don’t suppose we’ve seen something near what I’m able to but. It was superb to get so near the British file and I hope to have the ability to problem that subsequent week right here.
‘It will be really good to race Dina. We are both in great form. It is good to have that rivalry at home because we push each other. We can expect some really fast times this summer, especially seeing the form we are in indoors.
‘I missed out on two gold medals last year at the Europeans and Commonwealths. That has really driven me this year. I want individual medals at Budapest.’
Neita’s coaching accomplice Reece Prescod – the European 100m silver medallist – received the lads’s 60m in a season’s greatest time of 6.54secs. ‘Things are heading in the right direction,’ he stated. ‘Living in Italy is where it’s at.’
David King beat Andrew Pozzi in the lads’s 60m hurdles last, whereas Cindy Sember received the ladies’s occasion.
Neita stated she was wanting ahead to her conflict with Asher-Smith in Birmingham subsequent week