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Jessica Ennis Wins Silver at the World Championships in Korea

Sep 12, 11:39 AM

In Tuesday evening’s World Championship action from the Daegu Stadium, there was a silver medal for Jessica Ennis (coach: Toni Minichiello) in the heptathlon.

Ennis, in securing the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team’s third medal of the championship may not have had an achievable task in the women’s 800m in order to retain her World title, but in throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the field and running a lifetime best of 2:07.81, she ascertained that she is still one of heptathlon’s top two lap performers and a force to be reckoned with.

Ennis, who took to the front from the gun did not have the advantage over Chernova at the end to make headway into the Russian’s points advantage, but will surely take an insight into her 2012 preparations that the heptathlon gold in London is very much for the taking.

As it was her run earned her 997 points and was her second PB of day two and her third of the competition, but her overall total of 6751 was 129 points behind Chernova, who set a world leading 6880 to win.

Reacting afterwards, Ennis was determined to accept it just hadn’t been her day:

“I don’t want to walk away and analyse too much, I don’t think it’s something I’m going to dwell on, it was just one of those days where it didn’t come together, it wasn’t right.

“My javelin was so poor and Chernova’s was so good it was enough to take that gold medal. It was a brilliant score by Chernova, but I performed well, I had some PBs so I can take positives away from that and work on the javelin.

“I knew the gap was so big, but I wanted to go out on the 800m and leave everything on the track and run as fast as I can and walk away from it knowing I’d given it everything.”