TOM DRUCE has made it a hat-trick of 800m golds.

The 22-year-old won the event at both Shetland in 2005 and at Rhodes two years ago.

He picked up his third last night with a comfortable win at the Wiklof Holding Arena.

‘I’m ecstatic and pretty tired – I’m a 400m sprinter,’ he said.

Druce (pictured) ran a perfect race.

The Bath-based athlete was content to sit on the shoulder of Joseph Wade until the final 200m, when he kicked.

The big Arsenal fan went past the Isle of Wight runner with 150m to go and even had the luxury of slowing up on the line to execute a Robin van Persie-style shoulder flick to go into his trademark single arm salute to the crowd in celebration.

Had he not bothered doing all this he might have broken his personal best time of 1min. 51.95sec. as he crossed the line in 1-52.04. ‘If I hadn’t done that rubbish celebration I could have beaten it,’ he said.

‘I have been training for 400m exclusively so to do that time was especially pleasing.’