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- Updated: May 28, 2016
A lifetime best in the 200m together with a PB-equalling 100m hurdles performance and an outdoor high jump PB helped Katarina Johnson-Thompson to sit second in the heptathlon at the end of day one at the Gotzis Hypo Meeting.
After clocking 13.37 to match the hurdles time she ran at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing last summer, the 23-year-old added two centimetres to her previous best ever outdoor high jump mark with 1.92m. After dropping down the table following her throw of 11.55m in the shot put, which put her last in that event, Johnson-Thompson returned to the track to run a PB of 22.79 for 200m and win that event.
The Briton, who was the 2014 world No.1 and winner in Gotzis two years ago, is aiming for the 6200-point qualifying standard for the Rio Olympics and after four events had achieved 3932 points.
That tally puts Johnson-Thompson second overall, 40 points behind …
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