Dead-heat bronzes clash again: Johnson-Thompson and O'Connor meet at European heptathlon in Birmingham

At the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Ireland's Kate O'Connor shared heptathlon bronze with identical 6,581-point totals — a rare dead heat in multi-event scoring. They now face each other again at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, where Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam is the reigning champion. Johnson-Thompson, a two-time world champion, is chasing a first European title.