Jessica Ennis-Hill proved her class and answered her critics with a British-record heptathlon efficiency in Austria on at the present time in 2012.
Just a few months earlier than the London Olympics, one of many poster ladies for the Games arrived amid a stir after her coach Toni Minichello revealed a senior determine at UK Athletics had accused her of being chubby.
Ennis-Hill, then identified by her maiden identify of Ennis, had additionally misplaced her World Championship to Tatyana Chernova in 2011, although the latter’s doping conviction would later see that consequence overturned.
It was, then, a serious assertion of intent for Ennis-Hill to win the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis with rating of 6,906 factors – making her simply the eighth lady in historical past to clear the 6,900 mark.
In doing so she beat Denise Lewis’ British file, which had stood at 6,831 for the earlier 12 years.
Ennis-Hill was in electrical kind as she bossed a powerful discipline, setting private bests within the 200 metres (22.88 seconds) and javelin (47.11 metres), with a joint finest within the lengthy leap (6.51 metres).
“I know I am in great shape and that I can build on it now,” she mirrored.
“I’m over the moon. The record is something that’s been at the back of my mind and I wanted to achieve but I didn’t want to put too much pressure on it. Now I have the record I am very, very pleased.
“I wanted to do it for me, to prove to myself that I can do it, that I am capable of scoring a big score and that I am in good shape.”
Ennis-Hill went even higher in a triumphant show at her dwelling Olympics, taking gold on ‘Super Saturday’ and elevating her personal file to six,955.
That stood till 2019, when her inheritor Katerina Johnson-Thompson scored 6,981 within the World Championships in Doha.