Heptathlete recovers from slow start with PB in shot put‘I can see the path back now so I am really happy’
Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s heptathlon career has often resembled a wild big dipper, with incredible highs, heart-plunging lows and not a great deal else in between. But here at the prestigious HypoMeeting the full KJT experience was distilled into an extraordinary few hours.
It ended with Britain’s most talented athlete sitting in third place on 3,930 points, smiling while holding back the tears after posting her best opening-day score since winning the world title in 2019. But that barely tells the story of a day of crashes, injury fears, personal bests and, most of all, joyous optimism.
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