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Johnson-Thompson amasses a world-leading score of 6813 points in Gotzis

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Katarina Johnson-Thompson led overnight with a commanding lead and she further extended her advantage in the last three events, producing the best second day score of her career thus far to win the Gotzis Hypo-Meeting with a lifetime best and world-leading total of 6813 points.

The Brit won by nearly 350 points over a field which included all of the world’s leading heptathletes with the exception of Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam who makes her season’s debut in the heptathlon in Talence next month. Latvia’s Laura Ikauniece continued her resurgence after two years of injuries to finish second with 6476 points - her first completed heptathlon since Gotzis two years ago when she set a national record of 6815 points - while Hungary’s Xenia Krizsan made it an all-European podium, improving her lifetime best to 6469 points.

Johnson-Thompson led the individual standings on Saturday in the high jump (1.95m) and 200m (23.21) and the Brit followed suit in the first ever of the second day, reaching out to 6.68m in the long jump which matched her performance at the European Championships in Berlin last summer when she won silver.

She might have ceded more than 10 metres to the likes of Ikauniece in the javelin who led the two groups with 54.13m but Johnson-Thompson still had cause for celebration as her second throw hit the turf at a lifetime best of 42.92m, the second time she has improved her lifetime best in the event in as many heptathlons.

 

The 6800 point-mark was in view with a fast time over 800m and Johnson-Thompson ran it with venom, hitting the bell at sub-two minute pace at 59.41. The reigning European and world indoor pentathlon champion was swimming in lactic down the home straight but she fell across the finish line with a 2:08.28 performance to her credit - her fastest time since the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.

Johnson-Thompson added 54 points to her lifetime best total but believes there is still room to improve. “I’ve not always put it all together and I still haven’t this time so it just gives me so much confidence going forward. While this was a personal best, I can still see room to improve,” she told The Guardian after the competition.

Canada’s Damian Warner won his fourth successive title in the decathlon with a world-leading score of 8711 points ahead of Grenada’s Lindon Victor (8473 points) and Estonia’s Maicel Uibo (8353 points) who was typically brilliantly in the vertical jumps, topping the individual standings in the high jump with 2.15m and in the pole vault with 5.30m.

Reigning European U20 champion Niklas Kaul was the best of the Germans as he improved his lifetime best to 8336 points to finish fourth - the same place he occupied in the decathlon at the European Championships last summer - with former European U23 champion Pieter Braun fifth with 8306 points.




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