Cardiff sprinter Jeremiah Azu has secured his place at this summer’s Paris Olympics with a silver medal at the UK Athletics Championships.

The European 100m individual Bronze medallist from 2022 in Munich clocked 10.25s in poor conditions to secure his place alongside Louie Hinchliffe on the train to Paris.

Azu and Hinchliffe were two of three British sprinters who had run the 100 metres in 10 seconds or less this year alongside Reece Prescod who finished eighth in the final on Saturday.

“When you start the sport it’s what you dream of,” said Azu in an interview with BBC Sport Wales.

“Getting to the big stage fighting for the medals I’m super happy.

“I’ve had the dream for five or six years now. Since I started athletics, I always wanted to be an Olympic medallist so to make my first Olympics is a dream come true.”

The third competitor in the individual 100m for Great Britain will be Zharnel Hughes with the world bronze medallist from Budapest in 2023 given a medical exemption from the national trials as he recovers from a hamstring injury.

Hughes might double up with the 200m having won European gold in that event two years ago.

All three will also hope to compete for a medal as part of the men’s 4x100m relay.

Three years ago at Tokyo, Hughes, Richard Kilty, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and CJ Ujah were part of the team which finished second in the final, only to have their silver medal stripped following a positive drugs test by Ujah at the games.

“I hope we can come back with some medals,” said Azu.

“Relay we always have a good shout and put a team together. I’d also like to make the final in the individual.

“Once you make the final, the odds are in your favour, it can go any way and that’s the focus for me.”

Elsewhere at the trials there was further Welsh success as Patrick Swan won a silver medal in the shot put with a throw of 17.83m and Freya Jones matched the feat with a 51.97m throw in the women’s javelin.

In the paralympic events Harrison Walsh won para discus gold with a throw of 54.82m.

Performance of the weekend from a Welsh perspective however goes to 17-year-old Gracie Griffiths who won gold in the 5-kilometre walk.

Unsurprisingly it was the Pembrokeshire athletes first British title in a time of 23:53.93.

Speaking after the race Griffiths said: “I think my time wasn’t the best, but I have come away as British Champion.”

“I am over the moon and I don’t think I could have given any more today, so I am happy with that.

“I was feeling a lot stronger as the race went on. I am happy about that because I have struggled in the past so finishing strong is a real positive for me.

“Since the end of last season, I wanted to come here and win the gold medal and challenge myself.”

Melissa Courtney-Bryant just missed out on a place to Paris in the women’s 1500m as she finished fourth behind a strong field including Tokyo silver medallist Laura Muir and race winner Georgia Bell.

Adele Nicholl also finished fourth in the women’s shot-put final while James Tomlinson missed out on a bronze medal by one centimetre to Nick Wedderman in the Discus final.

Meanwhile outside of athletics, there was good news for Jade Jones as the taekwondo gold medallist from London and Rio was announced as part of GB’s team for the Olympics.

Jones is set to equal Sarah Stevenson’s record by competing in her fourth Olympic games.

Jones said: “This will be my fourth Olympic Games, fifth including the Youth Olympics.”

“This one feels extra special, almost like the very first again when I was 19!

“People don’t understand how hard it is to even quality for an Olympics, so I am super proud and can’t wait to fight my heart out for GB and myself once again.”