Tyrone Smith will compete in his one and only indoor meet of the season at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham, England, this weekend.

The long jumper will be joined by the some of the biggest names in athletics, including Olympic champions Mo Farah, of Britain, Elaine Thompson, of Jamaica, and Britain’s top women’s sprinter Dina Asher-Smith.

Smith, a three-times Olympian, has been encouraged by his pre-season form and feels confident of breaking his national indoor record of 7.82 metres when he jumps at the Barclaycard Arena on Saturday.

“It’s financially feasible to go, they have a budget to pay for the travel and they have a good prize structure,” Smith said.

“I always have such high expectations and I have been training really, really well — better than I have been in the past few years, particularly technically.

“My coaches think I should be able to go over eight metres in Birmingham and I certainly feel that way.”

Since failing to reach the final at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Smith has changed his coach, believing he needed someone “as committed to my success as I am”.

Previously jointly coached by Kyle Tellez and United States legend Carl Lewis, the 32-year-old felt he needed a fresh voice with Wesley Bray, a former training partner and decathlete, now overseeing his progress.

Smith knows it would be foolhardy to make assumptions about his upcoming season at this early stage but believes there has been definite technical improvements since making the switch.

“I’ve made a pretty big change this year,” said Smith, who works as a car salesman for Audi.

“In Rio, my technical coach Kyle Tellez was unable to come as his doctor advised him against it as he had undergone a procedure.

“Carl Lewis, who I have worked with for many years, was there to watch me but after the qualifying round he was unable to make it because of media responsibilities.

“I decided then that I needed someone who was going to be there all of the time. I’ll still be working with Carl, but I need someone who is just as committed to my success as I am.

“Kyle is unable to sometimes be at training early in the morning and with me having a job it becomes really stressful as I have to earn a living and don’t make massive amounts money out of track and field. I need someone who can travel with me as ultimately I’ve only got a few years left and I want to make sure that when I leave the sport I don’t have any ‘what ifs’.”

Smith and Bray worked together prior to the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto where the Bermudian finished fourth with a best mark of 8.07 and believes the pair share the same long jumping philosophy.

“[Wesley] doesn’t have any pedigree, hasn’t trained any Olympians or anything like that, but we have worked together before and worked together really well,” said Smith, who said he contemplated returning to Missouri to train under his former coach Bryan Schiding.

“I’ve been training with [Bray] since October on the runway and on the technical stuff.

“It’s important for an athlete and coach to be tuned in together and I’m very confident in what we’re doing and I’m hoping that will translate into jumping far in a meet.”

Smith has a busy schedule of events with the World Championships in London in August, World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, in March next year and the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia, two months later. Losing the financial support of Tokio Millennium Re, his major sponsor, certainly has not helped his chances of challenging for medals.

“The period after an Olympics is always a trying time,” Smith said. “Everybody gets on board for the Olympics — how could you not? But after the hype dies down you’re used to losing stuff.

“I lost some sponsorship after the London [Olympics] and I’ve lost my biggest corporate sponsor, Tokio Millennium, and unfortunately we’re not going to be continuing that relationship.

“Their sponsorship department is taking things in a different direction to sponsoring individual athletes. I completely understand, but it’s a hard hit. I’ve had to cut back on my personal expenses and I’ll stitch things together and make it work.”