Double world champion and Olympic silver medallist withdraws from the massive Hypomeeting this weekend in Austria
Katarina Johnson-Thompson has pulled out of the Götzis Hypomeeting this weekend in Austria as a result of a minor harm.
“I’m actually gutted to share I’ve picked up an harm in coaching this week so gained’t be competing in Götzis on the weekend,” she mentioned.
“I used to be actually trying ahead to competing in my first heptathlon since Paris, particularly at Götzis because the occasion is so particular so it’s with a heavy coronary heart that I’ve needed to make this choice. Fortunately the harm is nothing severe and I’ll be again on the observe shortly.”
She added: “Good luck to all of the athletes competing in Gotzis, little doubt they you’ll placed on one other nice weekend of mixed occasions for all of the followers that shall be there!”
Regardless of this there are nonetheless robust fields for the fiftieth anniversary of the well-known Hypomeeting.
British mixed occasions athletes in motion embrace Abi Pawlett within the heptathlon whereas Lewis Church, Sammy Ball and Jack Turner are within the decathlon in an occasion that’s dwell streamed by Eurovision Sport.
Johnson-Thompson was as a result of face Anna Corridor, the American who gained impressively right here in 2023 earlier than present process knee surgical procedure within the run-up to the Paris Olympics, the place she completed fifth.
Different heptathlon contenders in Götzis embrace Xénia Krizsán of Hungary, the 2021 Götzis winner, plus Adrianna Sulek-Schubert of Poland, Annik Kalin of Switzerland and Sofie Dokter of the Netherlands.
Damian Warner leads the decathlon entries and goes for an unbelievable ninth victory in Götzis. Now aged 35, he did not clear a peak within the pole vault within the Olympics final yr however shall be hoping for higher luck this weekend as he takes on world champion and fellow Canadian Pierce LaPage.
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Look out too for Sander Skotheim, the Norwegian who gained European and world indoor titles earlier this yr.
Olympic champion Markus Rooth, additionally of Norway, is not going to be in Götzis however the silver and bronze medallists from Paris final yr, Leo Neugebauer of Germany and Lindon Victory of Grenada, shall be competing.
Additional contenders embrace 2019 world champion Niklas Kaul of Germany and final yr’s world indoor gold medallist Simon Ehammer of Switzerland.
The occasion is dwell streamed through Eurovision Sport right here.
