Nobody does it better than golden girl Jessica

While Johnson-Thompson was disintegrating in the long jump, Ennis-Hill was posting a season’s best, as she did in four of the seven disciplines.

However, her World Championships are not over, and she will be determined to make up for her heptathlon disappointment when she goes in the long jump on Thursday.

Ennis-Hill regained her world heptathlon title at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing just 13 months after the birth of her son, Reggie, while Bolt defied the naysayers and all known form to run down Justin Gatlin, the two-time doping offender, to hold on to his 100 metres crown.

That equated to just under six seconds, but Ennis-Hill’s best time was three and a half seconds faster than Nadine Broersen’s and more than a second faster than that of third-placed Brianne Theisen-Eaton.

Thiesen-Eaton did enough in the 8800m to claim the silver with 6554 points and the Latvian Laura Ikauniece-Admidina took bronze on 6516.

“So I hope I’m an inspiration to different mums which you could exit and do it, and do each rather well”.

“Coming here, if I’d come away with a bronze medal I’d have been happy”.

‘But it’s been the most fantastic with my son and now being back here on a global stage’. Theisen Eaton’s gold medal chances were hit when she managed only a modest clearance in the high jump.

Johnson-Thompson failed to record a distance after three red flags, with the last attempt particularly exasperating and resulting in an appeal that British Athletics eventually withdrew.

“This year, juggling all my mummy duties and training, it has been so hard”.

But nothing should detract from Ennis-Hill’s extraordinary effort given that as recently as November she was unable to lift a 20-kilo bar above her head as her body had still to recover from the rigours of childbirth.

Sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce definitely stood out at the world championships – from the yellow daisies lining her green-colored hair, to her time on the track.

“Obviously Brianne has been performing really well this year and Kat, so it is a really good position to be here”. I can’t believe I’m here.

“I’d like to think it is (between us now) but I never underestimate anyone”, Johnson-Thompson said.

“I had to compete the 800m if I wanted to go to the long jump”.

“At that point, it was all-or-nothing for me and I had to give it my all”.

In the men’s hammer throw, Pawel Fajdeck of Poland retained his world championship title by winning with a best mark of 80.88 meters, beating three-time Asian Games champion Dlishod Nazarov of Tajikistan and another Pole, Wojciech Nowicki.