Molly Caudery: Pole vaulter targets Olympics after World Indoor gold

Molly Caudery improved her personal best leading up to the World Indoors and has a world-leading height of 4.86m this year

Molly Caudery says her World Indoor Championship gold medal will set her up well for this summer's Olympic Games.

The 23-year-old from Cornwall took pole vault gold in Glasgow, beating reigning Olympic and world champion Katie Moon and two other Olympic medallists.

It was her first major title and capped an impressive upturn in form in the past year that also saw her finish fifth at the World Championships.

"It almost sets me up better," she told BBC South West about her indoor title.

"Some people maybe wouldn't like that and all the pressures that come with it, but I do thrive under pressure.

"I've always said that I enjoy being an underdog, but coming into this championship I was in the spotlight a little bit more and I still managed to perform.

"So I think it's not a bad thing for me, and if I can just stay consistent, keep building in my training and take what I've done indoors into outdoors then I could be in really good shape for the Olympics."

Caudery became the first person from Cornwall to win a major international athletics title.

The athlete from Redruth first tried the pole vault at the town's Carn Brea leisure centre before going on to represent Great Britain first at junior then at senior level.

Caudery says growing up in Cornwall has helped turn her into the athlete that she is now.

"I'll never forget my roots, they have really shaped me to be the person I am today," she added.

"I'll be back down in Cornwall in a couple of weeks to see everyone and I'll go back down to the track and go back to everyone who was there from the beginning.

"I feel like Cornwall is such a supportive community and if some talent or something happens everyone gets on board.

"They've just been so great, I've spoken to so many people and everyone I know has messaged me and supported me and even my family's friends and their friends of friends are talking to them.

"My grandparents in the village are being stopped and congratulated. It's just such a nice warm feeling and it's so nice knowing I've got all that support back home."