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Didi Okoh insists her battling World Championship bronze is just a ‘building block’ for climbing two steps higher on the podium at the Los Angeles Paralympics.

The Stirchley sprinter, 22, finished third in her T63 100m final as a time of 14.66s saw her narrowly beat Swiss star Elena Kratter to bronze.

Okoh, who completed a degree in Law and Criminology at the birmingham > University of Birmingham last year, also banked bronze at the Paris Paralympics to catapult herself onto the para sport map.

The West Midlands star is just two years into her burgeoning career but has a crystal-clear ambition about what she hopes to achieve at the next Games in LA in three years’ time.

“It’s not been just about the medal perspective here – it’s about what I’ve been working on with my

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