Andrew Pozzi became the latest English medal hope to crumble on the Gold Coast – and the hurdler admitted it was no more than he deserved. 

The World and European indoor champion had looked supreme in qualifying for the Commonwealth 110m hurdles final on Tuesday at the Carrara Stadium.

But, like the Brownlee brothers, Adam Peaty and Max Whitlock before him, Pozzi failed to deliver when it mattered, ending up sixth in a time of 13.53seconds.

And the damage was done from the outset, the 25-year-old clattering the first hurdle and he was always playing catch-up from there.

“You have to take it at face value, I hit too many hurdles right from number one which is a stupid thing to do, it ruins the momentum early on,” he said. 

“I tried to build again and I felt like I did a reasonable job and started to move through but I was just rushing things – timing and rhythm is everything in hurdles and by rushing, you are getting too close to some and you make more mistakes.

“We can sit and overthink things but you plough into hurdle number one and you are asking for trouble.

“I was rushing to get back into it and that is where some of the mistakes came – that is my fault.

“It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that I should have been fighting for the medals here.”

Indeed with world and Olympic champion Omar McLeod absent from these Games in Australia – the field was wide open.

But it was Jamaica who sealed a one-two through Ronald Levy and Hansle Parchment with Australia’s Nicholas Hough scooping bronze.

And Pozzi was making no excuses for his failure to convert indoor silverware to outdoor success as England's wait for a first track medal of these games went on.

“There are some outstanding hurdlers in the Commonwealths, you know the Caribbean islands are very strong,” he added.

“But I think I was easily good enough to win a medal. And these opportunities do not come around very often – I will have to wait another four years now and that just wasn’t good enough.

“I wouldn’t have come here if I didn’t want a medal. You have seen some people pick indoors or pick this. It is incredibly frustrating.

“There are Europeans and indoors but I wouldn’t have showed up I didn’t want a medal here.

“Everyone raced on the same night and several people did it better than me."

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