Britain’s former world champion sprinter Richard Kilty has announced his retirement from athletics.

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.

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.

That Olympic medal ensured he would end his career having made every major international podium available to him – both indoors and outdoors.

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In total Kilty, known as the Teesside Tornado, won eight major international medals during his career, including five in relay events.