Former 60 metres world and European indoor champion Richard Kilty has announced his retirement from athletics.

The 35-year-old "Teesside Tornado" won gold at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Poland, taking the title with a time of 6.49 seconds. Kilty, from Stockton, was also part of the British team which secured 4x100m relay gold at the European Championships in Zurich that year, as well as winning a Commonwealth Games relay silver medal for England in Glasgow.

The British sprinter continued his individual success over 60m, winning back-to-back European indoor titles in 2015 and 2017, then collected Commonwealth gold as part of the England 4x100m relay team on the Gold Coast in 2018. Kilty also picked up a 4x100m World Championships silver medal alongside Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake in 2019, the British team's time of 37.36secs in Doha still a national record.

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Kilty made his Olympic debut in Rio in 2016, and was part of the Team GB group for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, where the 4x100m squad claimed silver, but were later stripped of their medals after CJ Ujah's failed doping test. Having battled back to fitness after injuries, Kilty competed at a third Olympics in Paris last summer, again part of the 4x100m relay team.

A torn Achilles tendon prevented him from taking part in the final, with Hughes, Jeremiah Azu, Mitchell-Blake and Louie Hinchliffe going on to clinch bronze. Kilty has moved into coaching, working with Hinchliffe, 22, as well as other promising young sprinters.

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