British lengthy jumper returns to her roots and can compete within the five-event, one-day competitors for enjoyable early in 2026.
After making a profitable return to competitors this yr following Achilles surgical procedure, Jazmin Sawyers, the 2023 European indoor lengthy soar champion, is aiming to compete in a pentathlon this coming winter.
The 31-year-old is used to coaching for the comparatively simple self-discipline of leaping right into a sand pit. However in coming months beneath coach Aston Moore she’s going to purpose for a one-day occasion that features 60m hurdles, excessive soar, shot put, lengthy soar and 800m.
The expertise will not be too alien for Sawyers, although, as she began her athletics life as a mixed occasions athlete.
From 2008-2011 Sawyers received a number of English Colleges and England Athletics mixed occasions titles and she or he positioned ninth within the 2011 World Underneath-18 Championships in Lille.
What’s extra, heptathlon nice Katarina Johnson-Thompson is in her present coaching group.
“Throughout indoors I’ll nonetheless lengthy soar however I might be coaching for 5 occasions,” she says. “I’ve not achieved a pentathlon since I used to be 16 however I will be doing at the very least one in 2026.
“Mixed occasions is the place I discovered my love for athletics and I’ve at all times needed to see what I can do after I return to it as a stronger, quicker and extra skilled athlete. And after I have a look at the following few years, this appears to be one of the best time to do it.
“I can not wait to be studying new issues once more however when the indoor season is over I will be again specializing in lengthy soar. I have been threatening to do that for years and now’s the time.”
