Katarina Johnson-Thompson suffered a painful reality check in her first heptathlon since tearing her calf at last year’s Olympics. She ended day one of the prestigious Hypomeeting with her knee badly bruised and her ambitions of defending her world title in July seriously blunted.
After four of the seven events, Johnson-Thompson sits in ninth place with 3,695 points – 245 off the lead held by the young Pole Adrianna Sulek, but broadly in line with her own expectations as she seeks to return to peak form.
