Six-time Paralympic gold medal winner Jason Smyth has announced his retirement at the age of 35 and will join Paralympics Ireland as a strategy manager.
Born in Derry and living just outside Belfast, Smyth had hoped to make it to a fifth Paralympics in Paris next year to compete for a seventh gold.
The sprinter has called time on his career this morning, making the call ahead of this summer's World Paralympics Games and with an unbeaten record in Paralympic competition that stretches over 19 years.
