"Even after two energy-sapping days, seven thrilling events, and one almighty final heave, Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson sat slumped on the National Stadium track not knowing whether she had won a world championship heptathlon bronze. As she looked at the giant scoreboard and waited, the American Anna Hall's name came up first. Gold with 6,988 points. Then Ireland's Kate O'Connor, with a national record of 6,714pts for silver."
"I thought that I wasn't going to get it because my name was underneath hers on the scoreboard, Johnson-Thompson said after receiving her 12th major medal. I've never seen it before. And I'm not questioning it. I didn't celebrate until they actually put the medal around my neck because I was thinking: What the hell was that?' Exactly the same points, you couldn't write it. And I'm so happy that neither of us lost by a point because that would have been horrendous."
Katarina Johnson-Thompson tied with Taliyah Brooks for the heptathlon bronze at the world championships on identical 6,581 points after a dramatic final 800m. Anna Hall won gold with 6,988 points while Kate O'Connor took silver with a national record of 6,714. Johnson-Thompson slipped from third to fourth after a 6.42m long jump and a 41.94m javelin, leaving her needing to run six seconds faster than Brooks. Johnson-Thompson ran 2:07.38 in the 800m; Brooks ran a 2:13.17 personal best. A scoreboard tie created confusion before both athletes were awarded bronze.
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