“Not yet but she’s all set for the worlds and Beijing in August. British decathlon hopeful Daley Thompson entered the May 1980 Götzis international championship in Austria merely as a warm-up and fine-tuning for the Summer Games in Moscow. It seems fitting that Johnson-Thompson will compete for so many significant titles around the globe over the next 18 months. It’s now up to me to perform even more strongly as defending champion. She is also receiving specialist coaching in her weakest event from Goldie Sayers, the leading British javelin thrower. Ennis-Hill has stated that, when she matures fully, Johnson-Thompson will be a better heptathlete than even her. She tweeted me a lovely message.”. Battle for gold. “Nadine Broersen, from the Netherlands, is the world indoor champion in the pentathlon and she’ll be there but I’m in good form.”. I haven’t done the pentathlon since 2012 so I’m excited to be back but I know it won’t be easy and there’s going to be stiff competition. "Objectionable, charmless and rude," a Times reporter once wrote of Daley Thompson, "this is not a man destined to become a sports diplomat." First athlete to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European titles and hold the world record “My training has gone better this year. DALEY THOMPSON does not want to answer the question, which is perhaps understandable given that the subject is the murder of his father. This was much tougher. OLYMPIC decathlon double gold-medal winner Daley Thompson, 57, lives in Hove with his partner Lisa Clayton. [14], At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Barcelona, Johnson-Thompson chose not to compete in the full heptathlon competition to save herself for the Olympics; instead she took part in the long jump—winning a gold medal with a jump of 6.81 metres—and the 100 metres hurdles. It was strange because there were 80,000 people there. Carl Lewis. She is the reigning champion at Götzis as, last year, she produced a compelling victory over the former world No1 Brianne Theisen-Eaton. My mum didn’t like it at first but the funny thing is that, now, she’s the biggest athletics fan out there. [1] She also holds the British record of 5,000 points for the women's pentathlon and won gold in that event at the 2015 and 2019 European Indoor Championships, as well as the 2018 World Indoor Championships. Decathlete. At the age of nine, with an audition for the Royal Ballet School lined up, Johnson-Thompson reversed Billy Elliot’s cinematic route and chose sport over dance. She is a lifelong fan of Liverpool FC. It was very hard.”, Johnson-Thompson brightens and suggests she has returned as a much stronger athlete physically and mentally. Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English heptathlete. Champion olympique en 1980 et 1984, champion du monde en 1983, champion d'Europe en 1982 et 1986, et triple vainqueur des Jeux du Commonwealth, Daley Thompson a également amélioré à quatre reprises le record du monde de la discipline. Last modified on Wed 21 Feb 2018 15.10 GMT. She finished in 13th place with a score of 6267. He was born on July 30, 1958 at Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom. It was a real lesson in staying calm and taking each event as it comes.”. I’m hoping there are going to be a few of those between Prague and Rio.”, Heptathlete reveals her reverse Billy Elliott moment as she prepares for the world championships, Rio 2016 and battles with the returning Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, Katarina Johnson-Thompson: I broke my mum’s heart by ditching ballet, ‘Thankfully I found athletics,’ says Katarina Johnson-Thompson. “Those last six months of 2014 were really tough. Mum said: ‘I’m soooooooooo nervous.’ She admitted she should have just texted me a smiley face but she ended up being so nervous she almost made me nervous. Meanwhile, her mother’s dream of little Kat becoming a dancer one day has been replaced by grander ambitions. Her mother’s previous obsession with dance has merged into an immersion in the heptathlon – that gruelling examination in seven disciplines of track and field which Ennis-Hill and Johnson-Thompson will face in May at Götzis in Austria. Most Popular #86327. Daley Thompson, Self: Stopwatch. Daley Thompson was born on July 30, 1958 in London, England as Francis Daley Thompson. Thompson lost his father at the age of twelve, when his father was shot dead in Streatham. The crowd were clapping for me and it spurred me on. There was a presentation the night before and the top six were on stage and they showed footage of all the greats who had won Götzis – going back 40 years. I'm massively disappointed but I'm trying to move on. I haven’t spoken to Jess for a while, as she’s been pretty busy being a mum, but she was very nice when I got injured before the Commonwealths last year. Daley Thompson: Narození: 30. července 1958 (62 let) Londýn: Ocenění: BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1982) komandér Řádu britského impéria: multimediální obsah na Commons: Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. [32], On 5–6 August 2017, Johnson-Thompson competed in the heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics held in London. Former English decathlete Daley Thompson is also in the mix. In June 2012 Johnson-Thompson achieved the 'A' qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympics by scoring a new personal best of 6,248 points at the TNT – Fortuna Meeting held in the Sletiště Stadium, Kladno, Czech Republic. She also competed in the single high jump event, finishing fifth with a Season's Best jump at 1.95 m.[citation needed]. Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English heptathlete.She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and broke the British record with a score of 6,981 points, which ranks her at No. She also holds the British high jump records with 1.98 m outdoors (2016) and 1.97 m indoors (2015). Daley Thompson real name is Francis Morgan Ayodele Daley Thompson. [27], In August 2015, Johnson-Thompson finished in 28th place in the heptathlon at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing after three foul jumps in the long jump. “This year is much bigger than 2014,” she says. [22] Johnson-Thompson won gold at the 2014 edition of the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis[23] with a world leading personal best score of 6682 but missed the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships after suffering a foot injury. He also created four world records, won three commonwealth gold medals (1978, 82 and 86), two European championships (1983 and 86) and was unbeaten for nine years. It felt like, ‘Yeah, this is the biggest competition outside the major championships.’ I was over the moon to win it.” Olympic legend Daley Thompson will be joining in on an 800-kilometre cycle to raise money to tackle rare diseases. Lisa is from Brigend and was Daley’s mistress while he was still married to his wife Tish. In a post heptathlon Day 1 interview, she stated: "High jump is one of my best events, I lost 200 points in just one event so that's massive. Not much is known about Daley Thompson’s girlfriend Lisa Clayton. “That’s the kind of athlete I am. The highly significant Hypo Meeting will mark Ennis-Hill’s first competitive appearance in the heptathlon since 2012. “The warmup track was about 400m away and I started to feel sick then because you could hear the announcer doing some crowd warmups. I had to look away. But Elliot Thompson, 24, is … I’m in a great place and I’m more determined. Byline: LUCY MILES OLYMPIC decathlete Daley Thompson has become a dad again - after his former Midland lover gave birth to a baby boy. After moving to Montpellier, she was expected to land a podium position but was not able to surpass the 1.86 barrier in the heptathlon's high jump, with a successful jump at 1.80 m, which gave her 978 points. Daley [Thompson], Denise [Lewis], Carolina [Kluft] and Jess. She 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. “If you saw pictures of me as a kid you’d laugh,” she says in her cheery sing-song of a voice, “because I was always in football kit. Clearly, her younger rival has the potential to also become an Olympic champion. I should have progressed a long way by then.”. The one thing I learnt from the injury is how much you can take for granted. Johnson-Thompson might have a mouthful of a name but she is often just called KJT – and her initials and sporting prowess could light up both this year’s world championships in Beijing and the Rio Olympics in 2016. Bryan Clay. 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It brings out the best performance in me. [29], She missed out on a medal at the Games, taking sixth in the heptathlon, although her performance in the heptathlon high jump of 1.98 m set a new British high jump record, and would have been good enough to take gold in the stand-alone Olympic high jump competition. Next winter training we will be preparing for the Olympics.’ I’ll be 23 in Rio but, in 2020, I really should be at my best. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. [12] “My family had hired a mini-bus to take everyone to Glasgow for a week and they made banners with my name on it. This year lots of people are going with the British athletics supporters club and she can join up with them and watch Jess and me.”. Ashton Eaton. By John … I thought 2010 was the worst I would have to go through – missing a whole season – but I was just a kid then. [13] The score also meant she had surpassed the 'B' qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympics, however it fell short of the 6,150 points 'A' standard. Francis Daley Thompson Wiki Biography Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (born 30 July 1958), is an English former decathlete. [31], She subsequently moved to Montpellier, France, to be coached by a team led by Bertrand Valcin, joining a training group including Olympic decathlon medalist Kevin Mayer and double European heptathlon champion Antoinette Nana Djimou. [18] In October, she won the "Lillian Board Memorial Award" (for junior women) at the 2012 British Athletics Writers' Association Awards. Johnson-Thompson chuckles wryly at the suggestion Ennis-Hill might struggle, after a two-and-a-half-year break, to replicate her best form. The European championships, in Prague, this week offer Johnson-Thompson her first major opportunity in a year that will build inexorably towards the Rio Olympics. Runner. It was only when I was nine that I said: ‘I don’t really enjoy this …’ Mum was upset and even my dance teacher was crying. But my mum [Tracey] was a showgirl. Daley Thompson, British decathlete who became only the second competitor in history to win the decathlon at two Olympic Games, capturing gold medals in 1980 and 1984. Such conviction is underlined by the fact that, last month, she broke two British indoor records in the high jump and the long jump. He is the son of Frank Thompson (father) and Lydia Thompson (mother). He was the first man to win two Olympic gold medals and a World Championship. She’s doing it again now following me.”. [15], In early April 2012, alongside Tiffany Porter and Yamilé Aldama, she was nominated for "European Athlete of the Month" for March. I like to step up to the occasion. More July 30 Birthdays. “I’m at my best in that kind of atmosphere where there is a lot of pressure and a big crowd,” Johnson-Thompson says as she celebrates swapping her secret life as a sports-mad girl for a very public stage. I said to my coach the other day, ‘Can you believe it? Decathlete #2. That first Olympic experience vindicated Johnson-Thompson’s decision to abandon dance and football for athletics. Decathlete. She wanted me to have private lessons and go to the Royal Ballet the following year. [3] Her mother is a former dancer from Liverpool, while her father was a Bahamian man from Nassau. In the call room there’s a little TV showing the races and so I got even more nervous then. I’ll just do what I normally do before any event and that’s prepare myself and focus on what I’ve got to do. She points to her unforgettable experience as a teenager at London 2012 as invaluable exposure. Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson was born in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton on 9 January 1993,[2] the daughter of Tracey Johnson and Ricardo Thompson (died November 2017). Juli 1958) er en tidligere engelsk ti-kæmper.. Thompson vandt guldmedaljer, i tikamp, ved de Olympiske lege i 1980 og 1984 samt satte verdensrekord i disciplinen fire gange.. Med fire verdensrekorder, to olympiske guldmedaljer og tre Commonwealth-titler samt sejre i verdens- og europamesterskaber, bliver Thompson af mange anset … Johnson-Thompson represents Liverpool Harriers and was formerly coached by Mike Holmes. The women’s hurdles in the heptathlon were the first races on the Olympic track and the stadium was packed. Formed in 2011 by Olympic legend Daley Thompson and former GB athlete and TV Gladiator Kate Staples, the Academies are dedicated to engaging, energising and inspiring kids from the age of 5, delivering athletics based fun in the form of instruction, information and motivation delivered by top coaches and current GB athletes. The Olympics are also coming closer. Olympic champion Daley Thompson's son has scored the highest mark in his school for PE in his GCSEs. I jumped 1.89m, which was a PB for me at the time. Daley and Lisa have two children together – the first of which prompted Daley to breakup with Lisa and stop talking to … Olympic legend Daley Thompson is looking for love again – at the age of 60. She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and broke the British record with a score of 6,981 points, which ranks her at No. “I wouldn’t be so sure about that,” she says. Everyone expected her to win. Daley Thompson was born on July 30, 1958 in Notting Hill, London to Frank Thompson and Lydia Thompson. It’s strange because I could still walk around OK but the scan showed straightway it was a tiny stress-fracture in my take-off foot for the long jump and high jump. [24], 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,[25] surpassing her previous record of 1.96 metres set on 8 February 2014. Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon results include finishing 14th at the 2012 London Olympics, fifth at the 2013 World Championships, sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and fifth at the 2017 World Championships. Decathlete. GENERELL INFORMASJON Vi har nå gjort om vår butikk til et showroom og Pick-up Point for henting av varer Bestill varene før du kommer Vi foretrekker at du bestiller varene du ønsker på forhånd i nettbutikken Da ligger varene klare til henting 2ALFA Husk å ta med gyldig våpenkort og legitimasjon hvis That was one of the most intense experiences of my life and I feel I can do any competition after I handled that at 19.”, Johnson-Thompson was inspired by Ennis’ composure in winning the gold medal despite excruciating pressure. Everything else had ended but everyone was there to watch the women’s heptathlon high jump. Outside of the major championships, Götzis is the venue where the most renowned athletes in the women’s heptathlon and the men’s decathlon have competed through the decades. Everyone was obviously there to see Jess but when they called my name and the crowd saw my GB top they made a noise like I’ve never heard before. [4] She spent the first year of her life in Nassau with her father after her parents separated and then joined her mother in the town of Halewood near Liverpool,[5] where she attended St Mark's Catholic Primary School and became interested in athletics. In Day 2, long jump is one of my good events so hopefully I can do well there". First, however, Johnson-Thompson enjoys remembering her passionate preference for sport over dance. Leos. They have two children, Alex, 14 and Aaron, nine. Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (født 30. “I would never underestimate Jess. Four years later, he returned to defend his title in Los Angeles. She was under such pressure but you would never have known it by the way she conducted herself. Johnson-Thompson won the 2018 World indoor pentathlon title and the 2018 Commonwealth Games heptathlon titles,[34] before going on to win a silver medal behind World and Olympic champion Nafi Thiam in the heptathlon at the 2018 European Championships, recording a personal best score of 6759 points,[35] to move into the world all-time Top 25. [17], In September, Johnson-Thompson was nominated for the "European Athletics Rising Star award". Johnson-Thompson can make a sporting cliche sound as thrilling as the textured drama of Götzis. Daley Thompson Is A Member Of . “I get asked about her all the time but the reigning Olympic champion coming back, after the glory of 2012, is very exciting. Jess was 26 when she won London and in 2020 I’ll be 27. Daley Thompson Fans Also Viewed . “I was naive then. Mum gets so nervous, much more than me, and before all my high jumps I could see her praying. Young Lyric. 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