Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Johnson-Thompson made her debut appearance at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Brixen where she took home gold in the heptathlon, and returned to Italy for the Multistars competition in 2012 where she broke Jessica Ennis' British junior record, and achieved enough points to pass the standard for the 2012 Summer Olympics. 

K-JT competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics in the women's heptathlon alongside compatriots Jessica Ennis and Louise Hazel, finishing 13th place with a score of 6267. Just after these games, she was nominated for the 'European Rising Star award'. 

Johnson-Thompson won the 2018 world indoor pentathlon title and at her debut appearance representing Team England she also gets the 2018 Commonwealth Games heptathlon title, before going to win a silver at the European Championships, recording a personal best score of 6759 points. She swiftly surpasses this PB and in 2019 records a score of 6813 in the Heptathlon, taking her up to 18th on the world all-time list. 

Her success continues to this day, and this 'rising star' hasn't disappointed us yet, and continues to fight for Team and Country, and we cannot wait to see what she brings to Birmingham, not far from her home town - can she continue to bring it?