Jessica Ennis-Hill leads after day one in Beijing

Jessica Ennis-Hill leads after first day

Jessica Ennis-Hill will begin the final day of the women's hepathlon at the World Athletics Championships in the lead after a strong 200m.

The Olympic champion finished behind fellow Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who won the final heat a season-best time of 23.09s to move into second in the overall standings.

Ennis-Hill also clocked a season-best of 23.42s, to lead the heptathlon by 80 points with three events to come tomorrow.

Canadian Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who was expected to be in contention for gold, is now 160 points behind the Briton after finishing fourth in final heat of the 200m.

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