ONLY months shy of his 40th birthday, sprinter Darren Scott shows no signs of slowing down. Instead, he just gets faster!

The Frodsham-based athlete has just completed a remarkable clean sweep of international 200m titles by winning the European Veterans Championship in a personal best 21.15 seconds.

Scott’s fastest ever wind-assisted time gave him a third championship record of the meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the 35-39 age group.

With the following wind, Scott knocked four hundredths of a second off the 21.19 he ran 10 years ago and wasn’t very far away from his all-time ‘legal’ PB of 21.00.

“It was a fantastic result for me,” he admitted.

His 21.88 in the heats had bettered Willie Magee’s 2006 European V35 indoor championship record of 22.55.

And Scott’s semi-final time of 21.53 was six hundredths faster than the overall event best – set four years ago.

His gold medal display equates to a ‘legal’ run of 21.22.

Scottish international Scott already held the European indoor title and world championships outdoors and also on the boards.

“I am absolutely overjoyed – I wanted to do the grand slam of current titles. To get that time was phenomenal,” he added.

Trafford AC member Scott paid tribute to coach Morris Condon after maintaining a knack of peaking at major events.

“I knew I was in great shape even before I left,” added the 39-year-old. “I had discussed it with Morris and said I wouldn’t be surprised if I ran fast.

“But everyone was just amazed at how fast and said it was awesome to watch.

“I just put it down to Morris and I getting everything right through the track work and doing combinations with the weights.”

This was Scott’s swansong in his current age group of what is in this country known as masters, rather than veterans, athletics.

But he bowed out on a high by helping GB to 4x100m silver.

He now rounds off his season with a club appearance in a British League meeting this Saturday and then the Stewarts Scottish National Championships at Pitreavie, Dunfermline, on August 30-31.

But for Scott, who is 40 in March, attentions are already turning to 2009 and, if slightly reluctantly, beyond.

“I now move up to 40-45s and am looking to break the British, European and world records next year,” he said.

“Morris keeps winding me up, saying I may get into Scotland’s Commonwealth Games team in 2010.

“I will be 41 then, but you never know.”