Abbie Wood: 'Winning European Games gold was surreal'

Abbie Wood has said that winning her 4x100m medley gold medal at the European Games was "surreal".

The Brit finished in a time of 4:41.97, two seconds ahead of Italy's Ilaria Cusinato.

"It's my first European medal and I'm so excited. It's just surreal. The breaststroke hurt a lot and the pressure was on me because I qualified fastest," Wood told reporters.

"I can't believe it. I didn't expect it. I was hurting so much after my heats and I never normally qualify fastest, which made me even more nervous.

"With Team GB doing so well here [in the diving] we felt we had to as well."

The 16-year-old spoke to Sports Mole after her victory, which can be read in full here

Written by
Jonathan McIntosh