KATARINA Johnson-Thompson rules the women’s heptathlon event. AFP
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Katarina Johnson-Thompson drew an emphatic line under years of tears when she struck heptathlon gold at the World Championships here Thursday.
The 26-year-old British star had finished her previous two world championships left wondering where it all went wrong, often sobbing alone in her hotel room.
“This is crazy. It’s crazy for me,” Johnson-Thompson said after downing reigning world and Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium to take gold.
Johnson-Thompson finished the seven-discipline event with a world-leading 6,981 points to claim her first major outdoor crown.
Thiam finished with 6,677 points to take silver medal while Austria’s Verena Preiner claimed bronze medal with 6,560 points.
It has been a long road to the top for Johnson-Thompson, who was anointed the natural successor to British golden girl and former Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill but had struggled to live up to that billing.
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