The injury took longer to heal so we decided not to risk it. In Day 2, long jump is one of my good events so hopefully I can do well there". First Name Daley. She was under such pressure but you would never have known it by the way she conducted herself. He was the first man to win two Olympic gold medals and a World Championship. Daley Thompson, Self: Stopwatch. First Name Daley #3. 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. The crowd were clapping for me and it spurred me on. Olympic champion Daley Thompson's son has scored the highest mark in his school for PE in his GCSEs. “That’s the kind of athlete I am. When I was little, literally in nappies, she had me going to dance class. Daley Thompson Career: Sport: Decathlon: Club: Essex Beagles: Personal Best: Decathlon 8,847 points: Achievements: Olympic Games (2 medals – 2 gold) Decathlon: 1st (1980, 1984), 4th (1988) 4x100m relay: 7th (1984) 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. So you have to grab your opportunities.”. The son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother, Thompson made his debut in the decathlon at age 16, winning a competition in ‘My mum didn’t like it at first but the funny thing is that, now, she’s the biggest athletics fan out there. The one thing I learnt from the injury is how much you can take for granted. The Olympics are also coming closer. It’s inevitable two such outstanding British heptathletes will be bracketed together and Johnson-Thompson seems to welcome Ennis-Hill’s re-emergence. Carl Lewis. Runner. 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. Francis Morgan «Daley» Thompson (født 30. juli 1958 i London) er en tidligere britisk friidrettsutøver.Han vant to OL-gull, ett VM-gull, to EM-gull og satte fire verdensrekorder i tikamp.Han var ubeseiret mellom 1979 og 1987.. Thompson og den bitre konkurrenten Jürgen Hingsen vekslet på å inneha verdensrekorden, selv om Thompson vant når de møttes. 62 Year Olds. If she’s going to come back she’s going to come back proper. It’s now up to me to perform even more strongly as defending champion. [26] Prior to Johnson-Thompson, Debbie Marti's 1.95-metre jump had held the record since 1997. I'm massively disappointed but I'm trying to move on. “Götzis definitely felt like an unofficial world championships in 2014. Friidrott, herrar. Francis Daley Thompson Wiki Biography Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (born 30 July 1958), is an English former decathlete. Daley Thompson has won more decathlon honours than any man before him. The second son of a Nigerian father and Scottish mother, Daley showed a remarkable aptitude for sport while at boarding school in Sussex. After a first day which left her in 5th place, with a PB in the 200 m, she had an excellent second day with PB's in the Long Jump, Javelin and the 800 m. However, she admitted afterwards that she wished she had set her target of finishing in the Top 8 with more ambition, having finished just 28 points away from bronze medallist Dafne Schippers. She has little interest in ballet now even if she remains an ardent fan of Liverpool. ‘It was the same at the high jump because 80,000 people stayed on that night. In the call room there’s a little TV showing the races and so I got even more nervous then. But my mum [Tracey] was a showgirl. She is also receiving specialist coaching in her weakest event from Goldie Sayers, the leading British javelin thrower. [28], Johnson-Thompson competed at the 2016 Hypo-Meeting in May of that year, her first major competition since undergoing knee surgery in the autumn of 2015: she finished the competition in sixth with a score of 6,304 points, securing her place at the 2016 Summer Olympics by beating the qualifying standard of 6,200 points. 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. In May 2019, at the 45th Hypomeeting in Götzis, Johnson-Thompson recorded a new personal best of 6,813 in the Heptathlon, taking her up to 18th on the world all-time list. [9] She missed most of the 2010 athletics season suffering from patellar tendinopathy, also known as jumper's knee. Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English heptathlete. Daley Thompson real name is Francis Morgan Ayodele Daley Thompson. [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. Johnson-Thompson chuckles wryly at the suggestion Ennis-Hill might struggle, after a two-and-a-half-year break, to replicate her best form. She wanted me to have private lessons and go to the Royal Ballet the following year. Most Popular #86327. [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. They have two children, Alex, 14 and Aaron, nine. 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. The superfit father of five – who won decathlon golds for Britain in the 1980 and 1984 Games – is newly-single. It then went away but the next day it was still hurting. He is Sports Persons (Athlete) by profession. Olympic legend Daley Thompson will be joining in on an 800-kilometre cycle to raise money to tackle rare diseases. Daley [Thompson], Denise [Lewis], Carolina [Kluft] and Jess. Jess was 26 when she won London and in 2020 I’ll be 27. Daley and Lisa have two children together – the first of which prompted Daley to breakup with Lisa and stop talking to … But her hopes were ruined by injury. It was strange because there were 80,000 people there. In the long jump, she was the 2012 World Junior Champion and the 2014 World Indoor silver medalist. WHEN Daley Thompson is your dad you would think it probably best to avoid the decathlon if you were going to take up sport. [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. Decathlete #2. Daley Thompson Fans Also Viewed . In April, the Sunday Mercury revealed that the father-of-three was setting up home with 30-year-old Lisa Clayton, in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, just days after splitting from his wife, Tish. “The warmup track was about 400m away and I started to feel sick then because you could hear the announcer doing some crowd warmups. Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (født 30. I didn’t understand how big it all was until I got to the stadium. "Objectionable, charmless and rude," a Times reporter once wrote of Daley Thompson, "this is not a man destined to become a sports diplomat." She’s doing it again now following me.”. 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. I went to the physio and they decided on a scan. 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 was naive then. She points to her unforgettable experience as a teenager at London 2012 as invaluable exposure. He is British by natinoanliy. [32], On 5–6 August 2017, Johnson-Thompson competed in the heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics held in London. Daley Thompson voitti kymmenottelun olympiakultaa 1980 ja 1984 sekä rikkoi lajin maailmanennätyksen kolme kertaa. Parhaan tuloksensa 8847 pistettä hän teki vuoden 1984 olympialaisissa. Daley Thompson Is A Member Of . Bang goes Daley Thompson's chance of a knighthood. Participants in the Steve Waugh Foundation’s Captain’s Ride will travel through regional Queensland over six days to raise money for children affected by a rare disease. Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson, född 30 juli 1958 i London, Storbritannien är en brittisk före detta friidrottare. 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. It seems fitting that Johnson-Thompson will compete for so many significant titles around the globe over the next 18 months. Not much is known about Daley Thompson’s girlfriend Lisa Clayton. Such conviction is underlined by the fact that, last month, she broke two British indoor records in the high jump and the long jump. “It was like I had a secret life,” Katarina Johnson-Thompson says as she describes how, as a girl, she reduced her mother to tears. Meanwhile, her mother’s dream of little Kat becoming a dancer one day has been replaced by grander ambitions. [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. Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s rivalry with fellow British poster girl Jessica Ennis-Hill has been one of the big stories of the Games so far, but little has been heard about her father. 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. 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. Se kesti maailmanennätyksenä yhdeksän vuotta ja olympiaennätyksenä aina vuoteen 2004, jolloin Roman Šebrle teki Ateenassa 8893 pistettä. Has her mum started to make travel plans for Rio? 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. Johnson-Thompson is ranked world No1 in both the pentathlon and outdoors in the heptathlon – where, over the next 18 months, her contests with Jessica Ennis-Hill, the returning Olympic champion, should produce some gripping battles. She is the reigning champion at Götzis as, last year, she produced a compelling victory over the former world No1 Brianne Theisen-Eaton. I said to my coach the other day, ‘Can you believe it? Four years later, he returned to defend his title in Los Angeles. 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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. 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. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. She’s a real expert and she’s got all the heptathlon books.”. DALEY THOMPSON does not want to answer the question, which is perhaps understandable given that the subject is the murder of his father. [12] Her furtive preference for football in Liverpool ahead of ballet in London eventually led her to athletics and the point where, this week, she enters the European indoor championships as the clear favourite for the pentathlon. [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. 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. “My whole indoor season has been aiming for this point. She travelled all around the world, as a dancer, and that’s how she met my dad – in the Bahamas. Thompson lost his father at the age of twelve, when his father was shot dead in Streatham. Bryan Clay. [2] Her development was in part funded by the Wells Sports Foundation set up by Barrie Wells, which gave her access to the foundation's patron, Jessica Ennis (now Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill). “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. It felt like, ‘Yeah, this is the biggest competition outside the major championships.’ I was over the moon to win it.” [17], In September, Johnson-Thompson was nominated for the "European Athletics Rising Star award". Daley Thompson calls it his Sliding Doors moment, ... Andrew died just 10 days after her 100th birthday - she passed away 'peacefully' at her care home from frailty with her daughter by her side. [6] She later returned to Woolton, where she attended St Julie's Catholic High School and became close friends with future actress Jodie Comer,[7] and went on to study sports science at Liverpool John Moores University.[8][9]. Johnson-Thompson was expected to be the GB team’s outstanding performer in track and field at the Commonwealth Games and the European championships last summer. Ennis-Hill has stated that, when she matures fully, Johnson-Thompson will be a better heptathlete than even her. And before the 800m [the final event], she texted me with loads of ‘oooooooooos’ in the message. It brings out the best performance in me. Olympic legend Daley Thompson is looking for love again – at the age of 60. My mum didn’t like it at first but the funny thing is that, now, she’s the biggest athletics fan out there. The 25-year-old Londoner won his second successive Olympic gold medal for the decathlon … “I would never underestimate Jess. 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