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.

Team GB and Team USA already have a slew of medals under their belt, but as these adorable photographs show, each and every one of our Olympians had to start somewhere.

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.

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.

The Scottish runner has been in fine form and she leads a team packed with medal prospects. Performance director Neil Black said he is 'pleased with the blend of the team' for the championships.

She leads Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam and Carolin Schafer, who sit three and six points back respectively going into the long jump, javelin and 800m.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's World Championship medal hopes have been all but dashed in the opening session of the heptathlon after an awful high jump performance.

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.

HOT OR NOT: Patrick Bamford rediscovers form at Middlesbrough

Sometimes the opposition is just too good. For that reason alone, Katarina Johnson-Thompson will reflect on the silver linings of her trip to Berlin instead of celebrating a golden hat-trick.

On the basis of her impressive performances in winning a European heptathlon silver medal in Berlin this week, the odds are finally shortening on her one day finding a way past Nafi Thiam.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Katarina Johnson-Thompson is talking about recognition and the time it can take for some folk to see what is so clear to others.

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.

The comeback story of Katarina Johnson-Thompson (pictured with Jodie Comer) left her on the brink of tears last night and comes after several years of heartbreak on the track.

The 26-year-old broke Jessica Ennis-Hill's British record to post 6,981 points and take the title at the World Championships on Thursday. She beat defending champion Nafi Thiam by 304 points.

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.

From the moment Andy Murray announced his premature 'retirement' from tennis in early January, it has proved to be a rollercoaster of emotions in the sporting world throughout 2019.

There are three significant events in the 2021 athletics calendar, with the European Indoors on March 5-7 joined by the rescheduled World Indoors on March 19-21 and the Tokyo Olympics.

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

RAY CONNOLLY: Waking up to learn that Glenn Frey, who co-wrote and sang that song with the American group The Eagles, had died, there was much lamentation among rock music fans.

Legal documents reveal the 51-year-old was also named executor of his will, meaning she is in charge of distributing his personal effects as per his instruction.

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.

Nicki Minaj has revealed she obtained a marriage license with her boyfriend, Kenneth Petty.

Nicki Minaj showed off her curvaceous figure in a set of sultry Instagram photos. The rapper and singer wore a body contouring brown Fendi dress and also posed with ex-con boyfriend Kenneth Petty.

Nicki Minaj went on a very special dinner date to Red Lobster with Jimmy Fallon during a pre-taped segment of a live edition of The Tonight Show.

Twelve years after the release of her first mixtape, Playtime is Over, Nicki Minaj is calling out artists and writers alike for what for not acknowledging her influence on hip hop music.

Dupri said he was simply adding on to an ongoing discussion in regards to the image and content of contemporary female rap artists.

Nicki Minaj suggested she was pregnant and engaged to her boyfriend Kenneth Petty on a track released Friday. He's a registered sex offender and pleased guilty to manslaughter in 2006.

Saunders, an A&R with Rockstarr Music Group, took to Instagram with a post ripping the Grammy-nominated artist, 36, over the presentation and promotion of the single.

Nicki Minaj and fiancé Kenneth Petty are officially walking down the aisle. The Super Bass rapper divulged on her Queen Radio show on Monday that she and Petty are set to wed in 'about 80 days'

The 36-year-old hip-hop star looks the other way when it comes to the 41-year-old registered sex offender's two prison stints

From the sleek style of Kate Mara to the head-turning outfits of Nicki Minaj, stylist Johnny Wujek is responsible for some of the most recognisable celebrity looks.

Their whirlwind romance, which went public last December, has been the subject of some controversy, as fans have pointed out that Petty is a registered sex offender in the state of New York.

Nicki Minaj put on a sizzling display to celebrate the release of her Hot Girl Summer music video, on Tuesday. The Barbie Dreams hitmaker shared videos to Instagram in a plunging white dress.

Nicki Minaj has announced she is retiring from her music career to start a family, according to a tweet posted on Thursday morning. 

Barbies everywhere were shook on Thursday, when their queen Nicki Minaj tweeted that she was leaving her music career behind. On Friday, the rapper backtracked and issued an apology.

Donald Trump super fans have shown how loyal they are to the president by marking their bodies with some unusual inkings including lower back artwork mimicking Nicki Minaj and on a mail item.

The reality star, 38, poured her curves into the latex dress and FaceTimed Kourtney but was 'embarrassed' when she joked Kim looked like 'Nicki Minaj on Halloween' on Sunday's KUWTK.

When stopping by season six of The Real in LA on Monday, the 40-year-old TV star revealed there is plenty of sibling rivalry in her family.

Nicki Minaj has revealed she could marry her convict fiancé Kenneth Petty in the next week.

Paris Jackson reached back to her inner Hippie style in a retro-suede fringe jacket and flared blue jeans for Nicki Minaj's Fendi Prints On x Nicki Minaj launch party on Tuesday.

The Super Bass singer, 36, is thought to have flown her pastor, Lydia Woodson-Sloley, from Brooklyn to Los Angeles for her nuptials, according to TMZ .

Nicki Minaj's fans-The Barbz-are known for quickly jumping to conclusions on social media. And Wednesday night the 36-year-old got her fans worked up when she tweeted 'expecting a'

The Anaconda singer also paid tribute to her late friend and tour mate Juice WRLD, days after his death at 21 amid a seizure while at Midway Airport in Chicago.

Listeners called the Anaconda rapper out as disrespectful after using the lyrics: 'All you b*****s Rosa Parks, uh oh, get your a** up' in the forthcoming track, tentatively titled Yikes.

The rapper, 32, found himself caught in a vicious and deeply personal exchange with the Anaconda hitmaker, 37.

Nicki Minaj was on brand when she attended the Marc Jacobs show on closing day of New York Fashion Week this Wednesday. She showed off her toned legs in a fil coupe ruffle dress.

The rapper, 37, was bemused after discovering a porn site uploaded her Instagram video with the caption, ''Juicy Thick Trinidadian Twerking'.

Nicki Minaj shared a video to Instagram on Sunday of her husband Kenneth Petty rubbing her stomach during a flight to Trinidad. The cryptic video prompted speculation over Minaj expecting a child.