Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson won the long jump in an outdoor personal best of 6.81m to give herself three different options for the European Championships.

Rising heptathlon star Katarina Johnson-Thompson is relishing the prospect of a future showdown with Olympic champion and Great Britain team-mate Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson explains the pain of missing out on the European Championships and Commonwealth Games, but says best is yet to come.

At the age of 21, the Liverpudlian already achieved gold medals at junior championships, the World indoors and has a British long jump record. 

Katarina Johnson-Thompson bounced back from last year’s injury frustrations with a British high jump record — but she then insisted that she should have gone even higher.

Few of the athletes competing at the European Indoor Championships will have had to factor in room for textbooks in their luggage but Morgan Lake is making sure her school grades don’t suffer.

There are few British sportspeople who have legitimate claims to being the best in the world however Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill are in that category.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill’s rivalry has all the ingredients to propel athletics into the spotlight in a similar manner to the Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett.

Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill has confirmed she will return to competition in London this July following her break from athletics to become a mother.

Jessica Ennis-Hill has revealed she faces her ‘biggest challenge ever’ as she attempts to juggle being a mother with winning gold at next year’s Rio Olympics.

If athletics wants Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson to become the Coe and Ovett of their day, one can only hope that a bit of good old competition spices things up.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson may not defend her heptathlon title at the prestigious Hypomeeting in Gotzis, Austria later this month because her coach is wary of people taking 'pot shots' at her.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson will have to wait a little longer for her hotly anticipated showdown with Jessica Ennis-Hill after she withdrew from the prestigious Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria.

MATT LAWTON: Katarina Johnson-Thompson seems slightly offended by the suggestion that she does not look as physically strong as other leading heptathletes... and then pulls a Popeye-like pose.

Wayne Rooney has teamed up with an array of leading stars across the world of sport, including Serena Williams and Kobe Bryant, to feature in a new advert showing off their formidable speed.

Jessica Ennis-Hill proved she is ready to defend her World Championship heptathlon title next month while Katarina Johnson-Thompson revealed the full extent of her injury woes.

Ahead of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing next week, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been busily preparing at a training camp in Fukuoka, Japan.

The lead-up to this summer’s World Championships has been dominated by doping revelations, but starting on Saturday the athletes have a chance to lift their sport from the mire.

Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson will clash for the first time since 2012 when they compete in the World Championships in Beijing. Ennis-Hill aims to add at least 250 points to her best.

British Athletics would not be making public any medal targets for the World Championships in Beijing. Here Sportsmail looks at where they are likely to come from.

MARTHA KELNER IN BEIJING: Jessica Ennis-Hill leads the heptathlon at the World Championships after the opening two events inside the Bird’s Nest stadium. 

MARTHA KELNER IN BEIJING: Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson go head-to-head on Sunday in a battle to be crowned heptathlon World Champion.

MARTHA KELNER IN BEIJING: Jessica Ennis-Hill being crowned world champion 13 months since giving birth and after an almighty battle back to fitness seems a mere formality.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson's World Championship medal hopes have gone up in smoke after she failed to record a distance in the long jump as Jessica Ennis-Hill stayed in front.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson began her quest for redemption after her heptathlon 'walk of shame' by comfortably qualifying for the long jump final at the athletics World Championship.

MARTHA KELNER: Shara Proctor is expecting a carnival reception when she returns to Anguilla, the tiny Caribbean island where she grew up having to dodge cricket balls to pursue long jump.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson possesses so much talent that she finished the first day of the heptathlon in Gotzis in second, despite finishing dead last after an inexplicably poor shot put.

Johnson-Thompson believes she has the ability to beat Ennis-Hill and wants to fulfil her burgeoning potential with a gold medal in Rio next month.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is favourite to retain the title she won at London 2012 but she is expected to face stiff competition from compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson at the Rio Olympics.

In June 2012 Katarina Johnson-Thompson scored a huge lifetime best in the heptathlon at a low-key meeting in Kladno in the Czech Republic to unexpectedly qualify for the London Olympics.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has become the most decorated British Olympian in history after winning his eighth individual medal, as part of the men's team pursuit squad.

Britain's golden girls Jessica Ennis-Hill (left) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (right) yesterday began their battle for the women’s heptathlon title in Rio de Janeiro.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has not improved her heptathlon personal best since 2014. Senior figures in British Athletics would like her to part company with long-time coach Mike Holmes and leave Liverpool.

DALEY THOMPSON: The achievement of Jessica Ennis-Hill in winning back-to-back medals in the Olympic heptathlon places her alongside the best British athletes in history.

It's HOT OR NOT time once again, as IAN LADYMAN runs the rule over the good and bad from the world of sport this week, including Glenn Hoddle, Gary Neville and Mark Cavendish.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: There was fresh hope as Johnson-Thompson hit new heights in Gotzis but saw just how tough it will be to win a World Championship medal in August.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: An evening that started with Jessica Ennis-Hill collecting a back-dated gold medal concluded with the sense the current generation are short of where they need to be.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Johnson-Thompson, there was a degree of redemption, considering it was this discipline that wrecked her chances in the heptathlon.

UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos has defended Britain's performance at the World Championship by claiming an athletics medal is the hardest prize to win in sport.

HOT OR NOT: Patrick Bamford rediscovers form at Middlesbrough

Athletic stars Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Dina Asher-Smith made the most of their post-season break by heading down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson arrived in Austria with doubts in her mind and left on Sunday night having maybe implanted a few in someone else.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The 26-year-old scored an astonishing 6,981 points to crush the Olympic champion Nafi Thiam and go sixth on the all-time list, ahead of Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Johnson-Thompson could break the 12-year-old European heptathlon record, according to the former champion who played a major role in the transformation of her career.

The heptathlete, 26, shared a sun-drenched snap of herself to Instagram on Monday posing on an idyllic sea swing.

Leading athletes from Team GB have taken the extraordinary step of launching legal action against the British Olympic Association over 'ridiculous' marketing rules.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Greece's Katerina Stefanidi said athletes felt forced to continue training despite the health risks because Olympic chiefs say the Games will still go ahead.

One Direction stars Niall Horan and Harry Styles were two of the celeb fans who posted heartfelt tributes to the star on social media as the news broke.

Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey had been hospitalized since November and was in and out of a coma from pneumonia before his death

In her complaint, Cindy Frey (nee Millican) accused Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of negligence for failing to properly treat her late husband Glenn Frey's ulcerative colitis.