Injured heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson out until March with Achilles problem
ByReuters
Published 01/02/2021 at 09:44 GMT
Team GB Olympic hopeful Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be out of action until March after picking up an Achilles tendon injury in training. However, the 28-year-old is still on track to recover in time to feature at the Tokyo Games this summer, where she is one of her country's best medal prospects.
Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson pictured during the women's high jump competition, at the 2020 edition of the AG Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting, part of the Diamond league, Friday 04 September 2020 in Brussels.
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Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be out of action until March after sustaining an Achilles tendon injury in training at the end of the year but she says the issue has not affected her plans for the Tokyo Olympics.
The 28-year-old emerged as one of Britain's top gold medal prospects for Tokyo after winning the world title in Doha in 2019 ahead of Rio Olympics champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium.
Johnson-Thompson said she was recovering back home in Liverpool and that her protective boot was due to come off on Monday. She would then head to her training base in Montpellier, France.
"This is not the start to the year I was hoping for but I'm pleased to be able to share this off the back of a positive few weeks ... This news doesn't impact my plans for 2021, Tokyo is still very much the focus," she wrote in an Instagram post.
Johnson-Thompson finished 14th at the 2012 London Olympics and was sixth in Rio four years later. The Tokyo Games are due to begin on July 23.
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