In-form Jessica Ennis-Hill posts best score since 2012 to win Ratingen heptathlon
ByReuters
Updated 26/06/2016 at 18:35 GMT
Britain's Olympic and world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill won her final heptathlon before the Rio Games on Sunday with her best result since 2012.
Jessica Ennis-Hill of Great Britain
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The 30-year-old's winning tally of 6,733 points at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge in Ratingen, Germany, was also the second highest score so far this year.
The Briton had said on Saturday that she felt back on form, after ending the day with a 188 point lead over Germany's Carolin Schafer, and showed it on Sunday with a personal best of 6.63 metres in the long jump.
She threw 44.37m in the javelin and ran the final 800m in two minutes 11.46 seconds.
On Saturday she ran the 100m hurdles in 13.13 seconds, despite wind and rain, and cleared 1.84m in the high jump.
A shot put of 14.29m was her best since 2012 and Ennis-Hill recorded a season's best of 23.36 seconds in the 200m.
Her final points tally was 64 better than her score at last year's World Championships - the last heptathlon that Ennis-Hill competed in - and only 32 less than Canada's Brianne Theisen-Eaton's worldwide season’s best.
Ennis-Hill, who will seek to defend her title in Rio in August, withdrew from the World Indoor Championships in Portland in March.
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