Johnson-Thompson excited about return to competition

The 22-year-old heptathlete will compete in the long jump � an event she has a World Indoor Championships silver medal in � on her return to competition.

Johnson-Thompson missed both the Commonwealth Games and European Championship with a foot injury last year but is hoping her return in Birmingham will be a springboard to success at the European Indoors Championships in Prague.

"I'm so excited to be back on the track at the Sainsbury�s Indoor Grand Prix," she said.

"I�ve competed in Birmingham before in the hurdles and I�m so happy to be going back to what I think is one of the best indoor competitions you can attend.

Especially with the great home crowd I�m super excited to be back.

"At the moment I�m still in hard training but I�m sure by February I�ll be raring to go and hopefully starting back where I left last year because the last competition I did was a home event at the Sainsbury�s Glasgow Grand Prix.

"I've competed in Birmingham at the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix once before and watched it on television every other year so I can see that it�s always a good turn out with the crowd getting behind the athletes.

"It feels like a major championship when competing there so it will definitely help me for three weeks later when it's the European Indoor Championships in Prague."

� Sportsbeat 2015