Katarina Johnson-Thompson broke Jessica Ennis-Hill’s British record to land pentathlon gold at the European Indoor Championships in Prague – but her immediate reaction was devastation at falling agonisingly short of the world record.
The Liverpool athlete amassed 5,000 points, just shy of Ukrainian Nataliya Dobrynska’s haul of 5,013, to land the first major title of her career in commanding fashion at the O2 Arena, in what was her first pentathlon for three years.
