“My ambition now is the same as it’s always been: get faster,” says Sammi Kinghorn. “I still feel I can. I know there’s little changes in technology I can use, other things I need maybe to look at. The day when you don’t think you can get any faster is the day you say: ‘OK, I’m done.’”
Kinghorn, for most people, is rapid enough already. The fastest British female wheelchair racer in history, the 28-year-old is now a deserved Paralympic champion too, setting a Games record as she won gold in the T53 100m this summer. It was one of five medals she brought home from Paris, making her perhaps the standout British success, but, she says, her breakthrough came about in part by learning to step away from the fierce ambition that drives her.
