Katarina Johnson-Thompson bounced back from last year’s injury frustrations with a British high jump record — and then insisted she should have gone higher.
The 22-year-old heptathlete jumped 1.97 metres at the Sainsbury’s Indoor British Championships in Sheffield yesterday to go one centimetre higher than the mark she set last year.
The Liverpool athlete endured a bitter-sweet 2014, finishing the year as the world’s No 1 heptathlete but seeing her Commonwealth Games and European Championship hopes dashed by a foot injury.
She is now clearly fit ahead of the European Indoor Championships in Prague next month.
That she was angry not to make it over 2m, despite being the first British woman to attempt the height, was a measure of her confidence.
‘I am really happy with the personal best and that I’m back competing, but I never thought I’d be that disappointed with a 1.97m,’ said Johnson-Thompson, who will return today for the 60m hurdles before a long jump competition in Birmingham next weekend and then a tilt at pentathlon gold in Prague.
‘It’s crazy because it’s a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2m. I cleared the 1.97m first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.’
Morgan Lake, 17, was second with 1.94m, a British junior record.
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