
Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson received in two occasions on her return on the Loughborough Worldwide.
The 2019 world heptathlon champion ran 13.73 seconds within the 100m hurdles, 0.64secs off her private greatest however 0.8secs forward of Mia McIntosh.
She additionally held off the chasers when operating the second leg as England received the 4x400m relay.
It was the 30-year-old’s first competitors since successful heptathlon gold at August’s Commonwealth Video games.
Johnson-Thompson additionally took half within the shot put, ending ninth after throwing 13.13 metres, 0.73m off her private greatest and 4.12m behind winner Amelia Strickler.
Within the relay, she joined Ama Pipi, Poppy Malik and Louise Evans, with the staff successful in a time of three minutes 37.03 secs.
Sunday’s meet on the Paula Radcliffe Stadium was the sixty fifth Loughborough Worldwide Athletics occasion, which is historically seen as the start of the out of doors season.
Johnson-Thompson will likely be hoping to construct on her victories and safe qualification for the World Championships, which happen in Budapest from 19-27 August.
Her subsequent cease is the Hypo-Assembly in Austria subsequent weekend.
‘The quickest man on the earth, little question’
In the meantime on the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Japan world champion Fred Kerley began his season with a win within the 100m.
The American’s time of 9.91 seconds was a brand new file for the Japan meet, 0.19secs forward of Rohan Browning in second and Ryuichiro Sakai in third.
Kerley is stuffed with confidence as he prepares for 2 hotly anticipated clashes with Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs within the Diamond League on 28 Might and a couple of June.
The 28-year-old stated he was “the quickest man on the earth, little question about it”.