Chris Langridge will be returning to Epsom with a badminton men’s double bronze medal from the Rio Olympics, and he has a message for wannabe stars of tomorrow.

The 31-year-old and Team GB partner Marcus Ellis beat the fourth seeded pairing of Chai Biao and Hong Wei from China 2-1 (21-18, 19-21, 21-10) yesterday to claim the gong.

It marked a first ever Olympic men’s doubles medal for Great Britain, and the first in any event since Athens 2004.

Langridge said: “On the day we are dangerous. We both believe we are good and you have to believe you are good to achieve things.

“Most of the time the pressure is on our opponents because we are lower ranked.

“They had all the pressure on them and we just played free. We enjoyed it, played for each other and we work so well as a team.

“If you don’t believe you can achieve, you won’t, you really have to believe and we did, that is the difference, we really did.”

He added: “We know that there are almost no pairs in the world we can’t beat and we showed that in this tournament.

“On our day we are so dangerous and I am so glad we could show it.

“People have noticed us because we are fighters and never give up as a team.”