• Pentathlete competed for first time since injury at Olympics
  • ‘My body is in great shape, I can take so many positives’

There was no fairytale return for Katarina Johnson-Thompson at these world indoor championships, for all her efforts to hurl her body back into the white heat of competition after just a few weeks’ training.

The defending pentathlon champion had dreamed of more shiny metal in her first competition since sustaining a horrific calf injury at the Olympics. But five months of rust proved too great an obstacle to overcome as she pulled out before the final event, the 800m.

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