The 25-year-old took home gold in the T36 400m in Tokyo, and a world record, alongside silver in the 100m after movement on the start line from another runner distracted him.

And he wants to make sure it does not happen again heading into his next big meet - the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan next year - by jumping straight back into training.

"I'm hoping to improve on some of the mistakes I made in Tokyo," Turner said.

"The start of the 100 did kind of cost me the race a little bit. So I would like to brush up on that and do a better job next time.

"It was a bit a little bit nerves all around and being coordination-impaired, the guy behind me had a twitch in his arm just before the gun went off. And I told myself not to react ... by the time I went, 'Don't react to it', I'd already reacted to it. So I was off-balance and that was the way it goes.

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"You always want to cut down your time but you do that by fixing little things. I'd like to be a little bit fitter, a bit more prepared for the heat, and obviously, I'd like to have my start technique, improve a little bit. I kind of dropped the ball on that one this time around."

After Kobe, he will have his sights set on qualifying for Paris 2024.

The International Paralympic Committee on Saturday announced it would cull three male athletics events in Paris, with one being the T46 marathon, leaving Australian Michael Roeger with only one long-distance event.

Turner knows the struggle of the IPC culling events well. In Rio he won gold in the T36 800m but the event was cut for Tokyo, so he switched his focus to shorter distances - the 100m and 400m.

Both will feature in Paris 2024 and he will be looking forward to it, as he said Tokyo was amazing.

"It was absolutely amazing to be able to get over there and compete, it was very 'will they, won't they' with it. But I managed to get there with the help of my coach Iryna [Dyoskina], who has been instrumental in everything that I've been able to achieve," he said.

"It was fantastic to back up and get another gold, but Rio does have a special place in my heart being my first foray into the Paralympics. Tokyo was also special though, because we had to wait for it and it's almost surreal."

The sprinter has been nominated as a finalist in the Canberra sports awards. Tokyo Paralympians dominated the para sport category for Athlete of the Year, with rower Nikki Ayers, gold medallist Vanessa Low and Turner named as finalists.

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