Paris 2024 Olympics: Ennis-Hill backs 'incredible' Caudery to win gold in Paris - 'Going to be a great Games for her'
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Published 25/06/2024 at 17:49 GMT
Two-time Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill thinks Molly Caudery has a terrific chance of picking up a medal in Paris this summer. The 24-year-old recently broke the British record for the pole vault, jumping a staggering 4.92m at the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet. She is already the world indoor champion. Ennis-Hill says the "incredible" athlete is one of Team GB's leading medal hopes for Paris.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill believes Great Britain have a got a number of "great medal prospects" for the Paris Olympics this summer.
The clock is ticking down towards the start of the Games, which get underway on July 26.
Team GB failed to win a single athletics gold in Tokyo three years ago, instead leaving Japan with a couple of silvers and three bronzes.
But there are plenty of medal hopes heading to France, none more so than indoor pole vault world champion Molly Caudery.
The 24-year-old has just set the British record for the event at a meet in Toulouse.
Her jump of 4.92m is the seventh highest of all time, and Ennis-Hill says that outlines her potential.
“I think Molly Caudery in the pole vault is looking incredible," she said. She’s already jumped a personal best, a British record and the world lead.
"It’s going to be a great Games for her so I’m really excited to see her perform."
Ennis-Hill is one of Great Britain's most successful athletes of the 21st century.
A three-time world champion, she famously came first in the heptathlon at London 2012 on a day dubbed 'Super Saturday', as Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford also won their respective events.
The Sheffield star also picked up a bronze in Rio four years later - two years after giving birth to her first child.
Liverpool's Katarina Johnson-Thompson has picked up the mantle in the heptathlon, but injury ruined her medal hopes in Tokyo three years ago.
Ennis-Hill believes that if the 31-year-old can stay fit, she can also challenge for the title.
She added: "We’ve got Katarina Johnson-Thompson who has had an incredible couple of years, double world champion, heading into her fourth Olympics.
“I think it’s her time to really shine and bring home that gold medal.”
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