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Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished second on her return to the heptathlon as America’s Anna Hall claimed gold at the HypoMeeting.<\/span><\/p>\n Hall, 22, ran a personal best of two minutes 2.97 seconds in the 800m to finish on 6,988 points – the fifth best points total in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Johnson-Thompson was competing in the heptathlon for the first time since winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in August.<\/span><\/p>\n She finished on 6,556 points.<\/span><\/p>\n A bronze medallist at the 2022 World Championships, Hall also claimed personal bests in the 100m hurdles, high jump, 200m and the long jump in Gotzis, Austria.<\/span><\/p>\n Former world champion Johnson-Thompson, who has struggled with injury in recent years, earned a personal best in the shot put of 13.92m.<\/span><\/p>\n Fellow Briton and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jade O’Dowda came 10th with a personal best score of 6,255.<\/span><\/p>\n World champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium was not competing at the two-day meet, while the Netherlands’ Anouk Vetter, an Olympic silver medallist at Tokyo, withdrew on day two as a precaution over an Achilles injury.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, at the Diamond League in Rabat on Sunday, American world champion Fred Kerley set a meeting record in the men’s 100m with a time of 9.94 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n The race was without Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, who beat Kerley to gold at Tokyo 2020, as he pulled out of the showdown earlier in the week because of a back nerve problem.<\/span><\/p>\n Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the second fastest woman of all time in the 200m after Florence Griffith Joyner, claimed the 200m in 21.98 seconds – another meeting record in the Moroccan capital.<\/span><\/p>\n Olympic gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen held off America’s Yared Nuguse and Commonwealth Games champion Oliver Hoare of Australia to win the men’s 1500m in three minutes 32.59 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n