Katarina Johnson-Thompson faces Anna Corridor amongst others within the huge mixed occasions assembly this weekend in Austria as Damian Warner heads the lads’s line-up
Among the greatest decathletes and heptathletes on the planet will descend on Götzis this weekend (Might 31-June 1) for the fiftieth anniversary of the well-known Hypomeeting.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the British curiosity with the 2019 and 2023 world heptathlon champion making an attempt to win in Götzis for the third time. She is joined by Abi Pawlett within the heptathlon whereas Lewis Church, Sammy Ball and Jack Turner are within the decathlon in an occasion that’s dwell streamed by Eurovision Sport.
Johnson-Thompson limbered up for this weekend’s huge assembly with a 13.57 (2.2) for 100m hurdles and 40.74m for javelin on the Loughborough Worldwide earlier this month. In Götzis she faces Anna Corridor, the American who received impressively right here in 2023 earlier than present process knee surgical procedure within the run-up to the Paris Olympics, the place she completed fifth.
Johnson-Thompson took silver in Paris final 12 months behind Nafi Thiam of Belgium, the latter being one of many absentees this weekend.
Different heptathlon contenders in Götzis embrace Xénia Krizsán of Hungary, the 2021 Götzis winner, plus Adrianna Sulek-Schubert of Poland, Annik Kalin of Switzerland and Sofie Dokter of the Netherlands.
Warner leads the decathlon entries and goes for an unbelievable ninth victory in Götzis. Now aged 35, he did not clear a peak within the pole vault within the Olympics final 12 months however might be hoping for higher luck this weekend as he takes on world champion and fellow Canadian Pierce LaPage.
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Look out too for Sander Skotheim, the Norwegian who received European and world indoor titles earlier this 12 months. Extra on Skotheim right here.
Olympic champion Markus Rooth, additionally of Norway, won’t be in Götzis however the silver and bronze medallists from Paris final 12 months, Leo Neugebauer of Germany and Lindon Victory of Grenada, might be competing.
Additional contenders embrace 2019 world champion Niklas Kaul of Germany and final 12 months’s world indoor gold medallist Simon Ehammer of Switzerland.
The occasion is dwell streamed through Eurovision Sport right here.
