Meet ascending sprint star Reece Prescod

Striving, training, fighting for every centimeter—it’s what emergent 100-meter specialist #reeceprescod does every day as he prepares for the 2018 European Athletics Championships, where #nike is the official partner. The 22-year-old already holds the British 100m title, and is looking to break 10 seconds in this month’s championship race in Berlin.

In this one-minute video, director Ian Derry relates Prescod’s personal quest for success through candid insights and shots of the #nike athlete sprinting through iconic Berlin locations such as the Messendam subway. “My vision was to try and articulate what it takes to become faster; the tiny margins of potentially training a whole lifetime to gain just a few centimeters,” says Derry, who produced this video and two others on 200-meter World Champion Dafne Schippers and 1500m runner Konstanze Klosterhalven for a series called Portraits of Speed. “Capturing a visual portrait of their physicality to bring to life their voice and story was a real privilege."

The 2018 European Athletics Championships begins August 6. Watch the other Portraits of Speed here and here.