Jessica Ennis-Hill “really proud” of World Championships gold

Ennis-Hill is still basking in clinching World gold to cap a remarkable comeback in Beijing.

Instead, Ennis-Hill appeared in Beijing as strong and capable as she did for her hometown Olympics, amassing 6,669 points, leading through four events on the first day. Then you’re thrown into it and realise it’s incredibly hard.

She put in a determined display, sprinting past the pre-championship favourite, Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton, down the home straight to win in 2 minutes 10.13sec.

“It is frustrating because I always compare myself to the athlete I was in 2012”, she explained.

Ennis-Hill’s coach, Toni Minichiello, was even more emphatic that the IAAF make a quick decision on the Chernova case now that Sebastian Coe has been elected as president of track and field’s governing body – a job the British two-time Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist takes up after the world championships finish this weekend.

Ennis-Hill was beaten by Tatyana Chernova in South Korea, but in January the Russian received a two-year ban, backdated to 2013, after the retesting of an anti-doping sample from the 2009 championships revealed an anabolic steroid.

“But I am not getting too wrapped up and frustrated in it. It is something that has happened now and I’ve kind of got to move on and focus on the future”.

The 29-year-old admitted that the journey back to the top of her sport has been harder than she expected, but insists that she is “really proud” of her achievement. Her most serious challenge came from Johnson-Thompson, who set personal bests in two disciplines and a season best in a third before fouling on each of her long jumps to effectively end her competition.

And David has led the congratulations for the athlete with an Instagram post. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have moments when I thought: “‘What am I doing?'”, she told BBC Sport.