TAEKWONDO starlet Lauren Williams will look to put the disappointment of a World Championships quarter-final exit firmly behind her today.

Blackwood’s 2016 European champion is part of an eight-strong British squad taking part in the Moscow World Grand Prix.

The teenager goes for gold in Russia following a heart-breaking last-eight loss to China’s Mengyu Zhang on her senior world championships debut earlier this summer.

Leading by one point with 10 seconds of their bout to go, Williams ended up slipping to a 31-22 defeat and left the mat in Muju, South Korea in tears.

Williams, fighting in the -67kg weight category, double world champion Bianca Walkden (+67kg) and world silver medallist Mahama Cho (+80kg) lead Britain’s medal charge on day one of the Moscow event.

Muju bronze medal winner Damon Sansum (-80kg), who’s in action tomorrow, is chasing a first ever World Grand Prix title.

“I have had lots of quarter-final and golden-point exits,” said the 30-year-old Scottish fighter.

“I am sick of that now. I am not doing that anymore.

“I am going out there to put on a performance to make the final and come away with a gold rather than bronze.

“The training I have done and the focus I have got is going to make that right.

“All the focus since January for me was the World Championship.

“That came and went so the focus was then on preparing for the next goal and not going off the boil, which could have been easy to do.

“I’ve not had much time off but I’m looking forward to getting back on the mat and competing with everyone again.”

While Max Cater (-58kg) is also in action tomorrow, Peter Longobardi-Radford, Christian McNeish (both -68kg) and Rachelle Booth (-57kg) fight on Sunday.