30 Facts About Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson was born on 9 January 1993 and is an English athlete.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been World Champion in both, as well as a double Commonwealth Games heptathlon champion.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson holds the British indoor pentathlon record of 5,000 points and won gold in that event at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as the 2015 and 2019 European Indoor Championships.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has occasionally represented Great Britain in her two strongest multi-event disciplines: the individual high jump and long jump.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson holds the British high jump outdoor record with 1.98 m, and in the long jump, she was the 2012 World Junior champion and the 2014 World Indoor silver medalist.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games before winning the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships with a personal best score of 6,759 points, which moved her into the world all-time Top 25.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson retained her heptathlon gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games while recovering from Achilles tendon surgery.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's career has often coincided with those of fellow British athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill and Belgium's Nafi Thiam, with whom she has competed since junior competition.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the only athlete to have defeated Thiam in global competition since Thiam won Olympic gold in 2016, and is one of only four heptathletes in this millennium to exceed 6,900 points, as well as one of only five pentathletes of all time to breach 5,000 points.

Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson was born in the Woolton suburb of Liverpool on 9 January 1993, the daughter of English mother Tracey Johnson and Bahamian father Ricardo Thompson.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's mother is a former dancer, while her father worked as a production assistant for the Bahamian television station ZNS-TV.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson spent the first year of her life in Nassau with her father after her parents separated, then returned to England to live with her mother in the town of Halewood near Liverpool, where she attended St Mark's Catholic Primary School and became interested in athletics.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson later moved with her mother back to Woolton, where she attended St Julie's Catholic High School and became close friends with future actress Jodie Comer, before going on to study sports science at Liverpool John Moores University.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson represents Liverpool Harriers, which is based in Liverpool's Wavertree district, and was formerly coached by Mike Holmes.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's development was in part funded by the Wells Sports Foundation set up by Barrie Wells, which gave her access to the foundation's patron, Jessica Ennis.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 athletics season suffering from patellar tendinopathy, known as jumper's knee.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson broke Jessica Ennis' British junior record at the Multistars competition held in Desenzano del Garda, Italy in May 2012.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished in 13th place with a score of 6267.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won gold at the 2014 edition of the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis with a world leading personal best score of 6682 but missed the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the European Championships after suffering a foot injury.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson set a new British high jump record with a height of 1.97 metres at the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield on 14 February 2015, surpassing her previous record of 1.96 metres set on 8 February 2014.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson had been lying in second place to Jessica Ennis-Hill after the first day of events.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson competed at the 2016 Hypo-Meeting in May of that year, her first major competition since undergoing knee surgery in the autumn of 2015: she finished the competition in sixth with a score of 6,304 points, securing her place at the 2016 Rio Olympics by beating the qualifying standard of 6,200 points.

In September 2016, UK Athletics confirmed that Katarina Johnson-Thompson had split with coach Mike Holmes, having been trained by him since 2008.

In 2018, Katarina Johnson-Thompson won the World indoor pentathlon and the Commonwealth Games heptathlon titles, before going on to win a silver medal behind World and Olympic champion Nafi Thiam in the heptathlon at the European Championships, recording a personal best score of 6759 points, to move into the world all-time Top 25.

In May 2019, at the 45th Hypomeeting in Gotzis, Katarina Johnson-Thompson recorded a new personal best of 6,813 in the heptathlon, taking her up to 18th on the world all-time list.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won the heptathlon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar with a British record of 6981 points.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won the heptathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

Since 2016, Katarina Johnson-Thompson has divided her time between her native Liverpool and the French city of Montpellier.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson began dating fellow athlete Andrew Pozzi in 2018.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a lifelong fan of her hometown football team Liverpool FC.