No one sums up the magic of London 2012 quite like the humble heptathlete from Sheffield. Jessica Ennis-Hill won gold in the heptathlon at the London Olympics with a whopping 6,955 points – beating the silver medalist runner-up by 306 points. Her time in the 100m hurdles set a new British record and was the fastest time ever run in a heptathlon.
After struggling with an Achilles tendon injury in the run up to the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro, Ennis-Hill still won silver, and later that year, she announced that she was retiring from professional sport.
Over the course of her career, she’s won one Olympic gold, three World Championship golds, one World Indoor Championship gold and two European Cup combined event golds.
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