Olympic silver medallist Matt Hudson-Smith made no excuses as his bid for a first global gold medal ended in disappointment.

The 30-year-old European record holder arrived in Tokyo ranked number one in the world but crashed out at the semi-final stage of the men’s 400m.

The signs had already been there in the heats, where he struggled through as one of the fastest losers before admitting that a hip was troubling him.

And despite battling valiantly from lane two in his semi-final, he could only finish sixth in a time of 44.95s more than a second and a half off the European record he ran on his way to silver in Paris last summer.

But Hudson-Smith, from Wolverhampton, refused to blame injury for his exit from the competition, while vowing to rethink his entire approach.

He said: “It was

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