Katarina Johnson-Thompson faces Anna Hall to others at the great meeting of combined events this weekend in Austria while Damian Warner leads the male alignment
Some of the best decatretas and heptatletas in the world will descend on Götzis this weekend (May 31 to June 1) for the 50th anniversary of the famous hypomeeting.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the British interest with the 2019 and 2023 world champion that tries to win in Götzis for the third time. Abi Pawlett is joined in the heptatlon, while Lewis Church, Sammy Ball and Jack Turner are in the decathlon in an event that is broadcast live by Eurovision Sport.
Johnson-Thompson became this great weekend meeting with a meeting of 13.57 (2.2) for 100 million obstacles and 40.74m for Javelin in Laughborough International earlier this month. In Götzis he faces Anna Hall, the American who won impressive here in 2023 before undergoing knee surgery in the period prior to the Olympic Games in Paris, where she finished fifth.
Johnson-Thompson Tok Silver in Paris last year Behaind Nafi Thiam of Belgium, the latter is one of the absent this weekend.
Other heptatlon contenders in Götzis include Xénia Krizsán or Hungary, the winner of Götzis 2021, in addition to Adrianna Sulek-Schubert, Annik Kalin or Switzerland and Sofie Doctor of the Paethlands.
Warner leads Decathlon and is looking for an incredible victory in Götzis. Now 35 years old, he could not clarify a height in the pole jump at the Olympic Games last year, but will wait better this weekend while facing the world champion and Pierce Lapage Canadian’s partner.
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Be attentive to Sander Skotheim, the Norwegian who won European and world interior titles earlier this year. More about Skotheim here.
The Olympic champion Markus rooth, also or Norway, will not be in Götzis, but the Paris silver and bronze medalists last year, Leo Neugebauer of Germany and the victory of Lindon de Granada, will compete.
Additional contestants include the 2019 world champion Kaul Niklas in Germany and the world’s inner gold medalist Simon Ehammer or Switzerland.
The event is broadcast live through Eurovision Sport here.
