- Johnson-Thompson finishes eighth in long jump
- ‘I have three weeks to get in the best shape for Tokyo’
Katarina Johnson-Thompson has already defied the odds to make the Olympic Games after rupturing her achilles in December. And on the evidence of an understandably hesitant return to elite competition in Gateshead, she will need to do so again to claim a dream medal in Tokyo.
Johnson-Thompson, however, was keen to take the positives from her first long-jump performance of the year despite leaping a modest 6.10m – 67cm down on her best when winning heptathlon gold in the 2019 world championships in Doha.
Written by Sean Ingle
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