Visually impaired sprinter Zac Shaw dedicated his men’s 100m T12 gold medal to his mother who died of cancer last August.

The 30-year-old surged to a stunning victory in 10.89, made all the more remarkable by the impact his mum Evette’s death has had on him over the last year.

Shaw, from Grimsby, pulled out a hand-written sign saying “Gold for you Mum” during his celebrations.

“She is with me in every part and I wanted today to be a moment to make sure nobody will forget who my mum was,” Shaw explained.

“It’s almost a year to the day since she was put on end of life. It’s crazy what can happen in a year. I’m so proud I could do it.”

Evette had watched from the sidelines as Shaw won silver in Birmingham in 2022.

While he was delighted to upgrade that silver, Shaw acknowledged it has been a long road to get here.

He added: “It’s been tough. Even a year ago, I remember thinking, 'how am I going to stand on the start line?', let alone compete. It’s been such a long journey to be here.

“My journey through grief has been very much centred around this as my goal. I’m so happy I was able to do it.

“Anyone who has been through grief will resonate and in a way I’m lucky to have this to look forward to because not many people have something like this so I’m really fortunate for that.”

Elsewhere in the athletics, Scott Lincoln made it back-to-back shot put bronzes, but was frustrated not to upgrade on his position from Birmingham.

His throw of 20.99m was only four centimetres off silver and eight off gold.

“I was so close to both the silver and the gold, just centimetres,” he said.

“But that’s professional sport, that’s elite sport and everything that goes with it. I thought I’d pipped him in the last round, it landed in a similar divot but not to be.”

Sammy Ball is well placed to medal in the men’s decathlon, third in the standings after five events on 4249 points, 53 points clear of fourth and 90 points off second.

The final five events take place tomorrow.

Georgina Forde-Wells finished fifth in the women’s triple jump, as did Hannah Nuttall in the women’s 5000m, ahead of Innes Fitzgerald in 11th.

Alex Botterill and Ben Pattison both qualified for Saturday’s men’s 800m final but Max Burgin missed out.

Success Eduan qualified for the women’s 200m final while Zharnel Hughes missed out on qualification for the men’s 200m final.

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