Jeanette Kwakye has not ruled out springing a surprise on her 100m World Championship rivals in Daegu despite having spent the last three years in the global athletics wilderness.

The Woodford Green with Essex Ladies sprinter was the top-finishing European at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when she finished sixth in the 100m final - the first British athlete since the 1984 Games to make the final.

However that Beijing zenith has quickly been replaced by three years of injury-ridden pain, the nadir coming last summer when the 28-year-old watched the European Championships in Barcelona on TV while preparing for a low-key local meet.

The chief tormentor has been a knee injury but the Kwakye re-announced herself on the GB stage with victory at the Aviva UK Trials and Championships last month.

That display secured a berth on the plane to South Korea and while admitting returning to the UK with her health intact tops the priority list, she has not ruled out having something else to declare.

“I feel really good and this season has gone in the right direction,” said Kwakye, who is currently preparing for the World Championships in the heat, humidity and rain of Ulsan, South Korea, at a training camp funded by Aviva – supporters of British athletes since 1999.

“Now that I am here I need to kind of see and test myself against the best in the world.

“My goals haven’t changed during the year despite how it has gone because they are always quite clear and again the inconsistencies that I had ranging from indoors to just before the trials are things I expected.

“To be back in the fold I am trying to relish and to come away healthy and having given a true reflection of the training that I have been through would be great.

“I wouldn’t like to say I am going to make the final or be on the podium but given the right conditions and the attitude that I have I think it could be quite a successful trip for me.

“The lowest point for me with all my injuries was watching Barcelona and seeing the guys doing so well and not being a part of that set up it was tough.

“Coming out of Beijing I was top European and that was kind of tough thinking that ‘wow, that was a title that I could have been shooting for’ and I am sitting at home getting ready for a Watford Open meet.”

Kwakye has two chances to help herself to some silverware in Daegu, with the 4x100m relay hot on the heels of the individual event.

But as skipper of the relay squad the Waltham Forest ace is not allowing the squad to get too carried away with medal dreams just yet.

“I am team captain for the relay so I have a responsibility to make sure I am up as up for it as I am for my 100m and that I have got a good squad who believe in what they are doing,” she added.

“I sit in the middle between saying we should be getting into the final and saying we should be challenging for a medal.

“We have certainly got enough speed to get into the final and we certainly all know when you get into a final that anything can happen.

“Selection for the Aviva GB & NI team paves the way for me to achieve my dreams.”

Jeanette Kwakye has been selected for the Aviva GB & NI Team and is at an Aviva funded preparation camp in Ulsan, Korea.

Aviva's support, both at home and abroad, is helping the team prepare to compete at their best.

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