LONDON: Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will make a decision early next week on whether she is fit enough to seek a second world title in Moscow next month after making her long-awaited comeback from injury this week.
The Briton will compete in the 100m hurdles and long jump at the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic stadium today, almost a year after securing a first Games gold in the capital.
Dogged by a persistent Achilles problem that delayed her comeback this season until Tuesday, Ennis-Hill set a personal best in javelin of 48.33m at a European Athletics Permit event at Loughborough.
The 27-year-old said competing in the hurdles today would give her a better indication of whether she will head to Moscow to try to regain a heptathlon world title she relinquished to Russian Tatyana Chernova in Daegu two years ago.
“It’s going to be a good test, first to do the hurdles, then go to the long jump ... obviously trying to simulate what I’m going to have to do in Moscow,” Ennis-Hill told a news conference yesterday.
“I’ve not been able to prepare the best I could. Tuesday was the first test and I had a good response ... I didn’t react too badly.
“This is the next big test. The hurdles is more explosive and coming down on my lead leg with the damaged Achilles is going to test it ... It will be good to see how it responds the day after and day after that.”
The heptathlon starts on August 12 and Ennis-Hill said she needed to make an early decision on her participation. AFP
