Luke Cutts has now retained both his indoor and outdoor British Championships titles and is hoping to represent Great Britain at the World Championships in London next month.

The 29-year-old pole vaulter from Thurnscoe took the national title in Birmingham on Sunday after a 'jump-off' with Scotsman Jax Thoirs, meaning he has now won the outdoor gold for the last two years as well four successive indoor championships.

The British record holder has still not managed to clear the qualifying height of 5.7m for the World Championships – which he has not competed in since going to Berlin in 2009.

But the home nation often selects one athlete in every event whether they have achieved the qualifying standard or not.

Cutts – who missed three months of training earlier this year with a fractured shoulder – said: "It's nice to keep winning the British golds and I am not planning to give up any time soon so hopefully I will win a lot more. I'd like to stay vaulting for the next seven or eight years and go for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and the Olympics after that as well.

"I was happy to win it, but I wasn't that happy about the height. I am just coming back into it and getting into some good rhythm so I feel I could go higher. I will try to get the qualifying height in the few next weeks.

"British Athletics have the option to take me anyway but I have missed out on their selections so many times before so I'm not holding my breath. I am in shape to jump 5.7m. It would be great to compete in another World Championships and in front of a home crowd. There would be 80,000 people there and it is a really good stadium."

Cutts has now returned to work this week as a van-fitter in Doncaster. He will take time off next week to compete in Dublin then he has a British League meeting as he looks to clear the qualifying height for London.

Cutts failed to get through the qualifying round in last summer's Olympics but coach Trevor Fox is confident that he will thrive on the home crowd if he makes it to the World Championships.

Fox said: "Luke is looking on really good form at the moment and he could do really well in the World Championships. He always performs well on home turf and to be in the World Championships in that London stadium would be a fantastic experience for him.

"He will probably need to be clearing 5.7 or 5.8 to compete for a medal but he's capable of that."

Cutts cleared 5.3 and 5.4 in Birmingham but, after failing at 5.5, he entered a jump-off with Thoirs which he eventually won with 5.45. Cutts – who lost a jump-off to England team-mate Steve Lewis for Commonwealth gold in 2014 – said: "I always thought I was going to win. It was just a bit of extra competition. It was the same as the Commonwealths but with a different opponent and a different result."

Fox said: "Luke was jumping off two new poles which have just been shipped over from the USA and the longer he uses them the better he will get with them. He showed fantastic talent and skill. It was a great contest until the end, especially the jump-off, but Luke always looked a lot better than the others and I never doubted that he would win it.

"He showed so much flair and willpower that there was no chance he would lose it. He got stuck in and did us all proud. He seems to be British Champion every year."It's great to see him dominating."

Cutts' Dearne ALC team-mate Abigail Roberts, who is from Normanton but goes to Barnsley College, finished fifth in the senior women's event at the British Championship. The 19-year-old cleared four metres.