Wightman, who won the world title in 2022, missed last year’s Olympics with a hamstring injury on the back of foot and calf problems preventing him from competing in the 2023 World Championships and UK Championships respectively.The Paris disappointment was the final straw, and led Wightman to change his personal and training life as a “last roll of the dice”.”I got within a week of the Olympics, and thought was this literally my body telling me I’ve given everything I possibly could,” he added. “So I relocated myself and my fiancee from London to Manchester, which felt like a big deal – my whole life and our friend group was down there. “And then in February, I decided to part ways with my dad as my coach, which was an even bigger deal, because he’s been my coach since I was 15.”They are decisions I hoped I wouldn’t regret, and luckily for me, they paid off. This is the outcome I hoped for, making those hard choices.”Even although he isn’t my coach anymore, he doesn’t lose his role as my father. “He was proud of me on Wednesday and sent me a message and some advice on how he thought the race would go. It’s funny how he has gone from the figurehead in all my career and all of a sudden he isn’t involved. It is a big change.”
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World Athletics Championships: Jake Wightman karaoke celebration
