Belgrave Harriers William Sharman is determined to have a better campaign in 2016 with reaching Rio Olympics being his ultimate target.

The 30-year-old 110m hurdles specialist, who returned to the circuit last month following a lengthy hamstring injury, continued his rehabilitation last weekend.

Having timed 13.88sec for sixth at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, Sharman competed at the ISTAF IAAF World Challenge in Berlin 24 hours later, clocking 13.98secs for eighth.

“I hit a hurdle from the Berlin race and that cost me,” said Sharman, the former British champion.

“But coming back from the injury it’s not so simple because my leg's healed, but it’s not flexible enough yet so I struggle with the high hurdles and I get pain.”

Sharman has used the past few races purely to see if his injury has healed properly.

“It’s just like getting back here with more practises,” Sharman added.

“I’ve been only been doing high hurdles for a couple of months since the injury.

“To do what I did last year and the year before, that takes a lot of training. But I’ll be fine, I just need to do the training.”

Sharman heads to up to Newcastle on Saturday for the Great CityGames, an event you can see live on BBC1 from 2pm.

“After the street meet this Saturday, I’m going to go straight into training and prepare for Rio,” Sharman added.

“I’ve had long enough off with the injury. I don’t need any more time off so I really need to get cracking and sort it all out.”