Great Britain & N.I.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a renowned British track and field athlete specializing in the heptathlon and pentathlon. She has achieved significant success on the world stage, including multiple world championship medals and a top-tier performance at the Commonwealth Games. Known for her versatility, she excels in a range of disciplines including the high jump and long jump.
800 Metres
The XXXIII Olympic Games
2:04.90
8/9/2024
Shot Put
The XXXIII Olympic Games
14.44
8/8/2024
Javelin Throw
World Athletics Championships, Budapest 2023
46.14
8/20/2023
Heptathlon
IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019
6981
10/4/2019
100 Metres Hurdles
IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019
13.09
10/2/2019
The XXXIII Olympic Games - Heptathlon
6844
The XXXI Olympic Games - Heptathlon
6523
IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Heptathlon
6981
IAAF World Championships in Athletics - High Jump
1.95
IAAF World Championships - Heptathlon
6449
Day 8 of track and field at the Paris Olympics featured a full slate of finals! Rai Benjamin clinched his long-awaited Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles, Sha’Carri Richardson anchored Team USA to victory in the 4x100m relay, and Nafi Thiam triumphed as a three-time defending Olympic champion, among other standout moments. In the eighth edition of Torch Talk, the team dives into all the highlights from the day...
– Rai Benjamin won his first global gold medal in the 400m hurdles, taking the Olympic title in 46.46. World record holder Karsten Warholm won silver and Alison Dos Santos won bronze.
– Sha'Carri Richardson anchored the U.S. women's 4x100m team to Olympic gold in 41.78. She did so with teammates Melissa Jefferson, TeeTee Terry, and Gabby Thomas. Team GB took silver and Germany won bronze.
– Beatrice Chebet completed the 5000m-10,000m double, winning the 10K in 30:43.25. Nadia Battocletti took silver and broke her second Italian record of the Games and Sifan Hassan won bronze.
– Nafi Thiam became the first multi-athlete in history to win three straight Olympic golds with her heptathlon title. Katarina Johnson-Thompson won silver and Noor Vidts won bronze.
– Marileidy Paulino became the 4th-fastest woman ever, winning Olympic gold in the process with her 400m time of 48.17. Salwa Eid Naser won the silver medal, and Natalia Kaczmarek won bronze in the quickest 3rd-place finish ever.
– Team Canada won the men's 4x100m relay gold, ahead of South Africa with silver and Team GB with bronze. Team USA was disqualified once again after an illegal first handoff.
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Anna Hall joins Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Jasmine Todd after earning a silver medal in the heptathlon with a total of 6720 points – just 20 points less than winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s 6740.
Hosts: Kyle Merber, Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison
Guest: Anna Hall
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DAILY CITIUS MAG NEWSLETTER: David Melly will recap all of the biggest moments, highlighting his must-watch athletes and events for each day while also pulling together some of our best content, photos and social moments that the CITIUS MAG team captures.
Dan Greaves and Martyn Rooney with their inside view of athletics including a freak and painful accident.
The boys update us on how their training's going as they head towards a big Olympic and Paralympic summer in Tokyo.
There's some reflection on the end of 2019 and the news that both Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson were shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
And they talk about Oddballs and testicular cancer
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