| Biography | Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson is an English track and field athlete specialising in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 European Indoor champion in the pentathlon with a British record score of 5000 points, and the 2018 World Indoor champion in the pentathlon. In the Long jump, she is the 2012 World Junior champion and the 2014 World Indoor silver medalist. She also holds the British high jump records with 1.98m outdoors (2016) and 1.97m indoors (2015).
Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon results include finishing 14th at the 2012 London Olympics, fifth at the 2013 World Championships, sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics and fifth at the 2017 World Championships, She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, before winning the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships with a personal best score of 6759 points, which moved her into the World all-time Top 25. |