Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Occupation	High Jumper
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1993(1993-01-09)
Age	31
Birthplace	Liverpool
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Katarina Johnson-Thompson Biography

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is one of the most popular and richest High Jumper who was born on January 9, 1993 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. English track and field player most well-known for her performance at the height jump. She placed fifteenth overall in the Heptathlon competition at the Olympic Games in 2012. Olympics.

She has been in competition with her fellow English the heptathlete Jessica Ennis Hill.

Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English heptathlete. 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. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. 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. In the long jump, she was the 2012 World Junior Champion and the 2014 World Indoor silver medalist. She also holds the British high jump records with 1.98 m outdoors (2016) and 1.97 m indoors (2015).

At the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Brixen, Italy, she won the gold medal in the heptathlon. She missed most of the 2010 athletics season suffering from patellar tendinopathy, also known as jumper’s knee.

Her parents are Tracey as well as Ricardo. Her father hails originally from the Bahamas.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson Net Worth

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is one of the richest High Jumper from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katarina Johnson-Thompson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was born in Liverpool and went to Catholic High School. The first funding she received was via Wells Athletic Foundation. Wells Athletic Foundation.

She created records for the British high jump record and the British indoor long jump records.

Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson was born in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton on 9 January 1993, the daughter of Tracey Johnson and Ricardo Thompson (died November 2017). Her mother is a former dancer from Liverpool, while her father was a Bahamian man from Nassau. 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, where she attended St Mark’s Catholic Primary School and became interested in athletics. She later returned to Woolton, where she attended St Julie’s Catholic High School and became close friends with future actress Jodie Comer, and went on to study sports science at Liverpool John Moores University.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Katarina Johnson-Thompson Dating?

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Johnson-Thompson broke Jessica Ennis’ British junior record at the Multistars competition held in Desenzano del Garda, Italy in May 2012. Her score of 6007 points was enough to take third position at the event behind Sofía Ifadídou of Greece and French athlete Blandine Maisonnier. The score also meant she had surpassed the ‘B’ qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympics, however it fell short of the 6,150 points ‘A’ standard. In June 2012 Johnson-Thompson achieved the ‘A’ qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympics by scoring a new personal best of 6,248 points at the TNT – Fortuna Meeting held in the Sletiště Stadium, Kladno, Czech Republic. At the meeting she set six new personal bests across the seven events to beat her previous best score by 241 points.

Facts & Trivia

Katarina Ranked on the list of most popular High Jumper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Katarina Johnson- Thompson celebrates birthday on January 9 of every year.

In the 2013 IAAF World Championships heptathlon, Johnson-Thompson finished in 5th place. 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.

What happened to Katarina Johnson-Thompson?

Johnson-Thompson tore a calf muscle at last year’s Olympics and did not complete March’s World Indoors event. Compatriot Holly Mills finished sixth with a personal best of 6,260 points. The event was won by the Netherlands’ Olympic silver medallist Anouk Vetter.

Is Katrina Johnson-Thompson married?

Johnson-Thompson moved to Montpellier in 2016, and currently splits her time between Montpellier and her home city of Liverpool. She is a lifelong fan of local team Liverpool F.C. She has been in a relationship with fellow athlete Andrew Pozzi since 2018.

Who is Katarina Johnson-Thompson dad?

Ricardo Thompson

Where is Katarina Johnson-Thompson parents from?

Katarina was born in Liverpool on January 9th, 1993 to Ricardo and Tracey from the Bahamas and the UK respectively. With her father hailing from Nassau, Kat spent her early years on the island before moving back to Liverpool, the town that she grew up in and now proudly calls home.

Who is Katarina Johnson-Thompson dating?

Liverpudlian Johnson-Thompson has been in a relationship with British Olympic hurdler 29-year-old Andrew Pozzi since 2018. The super-fit couple both have an impressive track record in the sport, and as of March 2021, Pozzi was the current indoor World Champion at 60 metres hurdles.