My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.