Skipper Andrew Pozzi insists he is out to mark his breakthrough anniversary with more silverware at the World Indoor Championships.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland joint captain starts his bid for gold in the 60 metre hurdles in Birmingham on Saturday.

It will be exactly 12 months since Pozzi won his first major title when he claimed the European Indoor title in Belgrade.

“I’m looking to medal, I’ve shown I have the quality to do that,” he said, with the Championships starting on Thursday. “It’s a cool little anniversary but I won’t go out to celebrate on Saturday.

“I’m in form and training has been going well. I want to medal and, from the World Indoors in the past (where he finished fourth twice) this is where my career needs to have a step on.

“My preparation has gone well and I’ve got a lot more volume and quality in. My racing hasn’t shown that just yet but I’m confident it will this Championships.”

Pozzi is joint captain with Shelayna Oskan-Clarke having won the British Trials in Birmingham in February.

He came third in the Glasgow Grand Prix on Sunday and faces London 2012 Olympic champion Aries Merritt and Jamaica’s Ronald Levy in a strong line-up this weekend.

But the 25-year-old feels relaxed heading into Birmingham having set an indoor personal best on the track last year.

2018 SPAR British Indoor Athletics Championships – Day One – Arena Brimingham
Andrew Pozzi won the British Trials in Birmingham in February. (Simon Cooper/PA)

He said: “I ran 7.43s which is typically good enough to win any World Indoors, so I’m familiar with the track.

“I’ve always raced well in Birmingham, I broke the national junior record in 2010, so this is a good place for me.

“I’ve got such fond memories. My first athletics competition I ever watched was in Birmingham, the trials in 2003, and then the World Indoors. So 15 years later it has come full circle.

“I saw Christian Malcolm back then, I was sat where you first came out and there was a delay so he got a volunteer to bring a chair and he stood and spoke to me and a bunch of other kids.

“Mark (Lewis-Francis) won the trials in the 60m that year and I went to school the next day and I’d been on TV climbing over chairs to get his autograph.

“The Worlds was Colin’s (Jackson) last indoor race and I was captured by the hurdles and Liu Xiang came third at 19-years-old. It was a really important time for me and got me in to really loving athletics.”

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Laura Muir could claim the hosts’ first medal when she races in the 3000m final along with Eilish McColgan while Morgan Lake and Robbie Grabarz, who won 2012 Olympic bronze, compete in the women’s and men’s high jump.