World Indoor Athletics 2010: Jessica Ennis ready for the high-pressure zone

By Simon Hart Published: 6:15PM GMT 06 Mar 2010

Flying high: Jessica Ennis hopes to lift her fantastic Jan form in to the World Indoor Athletics Championships Photo: PA

Spare a thought, then, for Jessica Ennis, whose outside universe heptathlon pretension was completed by a large 238-point domain in Berlin and who done the Beijing bullion medallist, Nataliya Dobrynska, see typical by comparison. Just how do you tip that?

It is the kind of subject Ennis knows she will have to fastener with all the proceed to the London 2012 Olympics so prolonged as she maintains her ceiling trajectory.

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Just how great can she be? Can she obey the great Swede, Carolina Kluft, and browbeat the multi-events stage for years, winning each vital championship pretension indoors and outdoors? Can she even mangle universe records?

"I know you cannot win everything," Ennis says modestly. "That is environment yourself a unequivocally high goal. But I goal to be in the tip five at vital championships and I goal to win a medal. It is all about progressing fitness and staying damage free and I goal I can do that up to 2012."

The enterprise to moderate down expectancy is distinct from a twenty-four year-old who is already being talked about as the brave lady of 2012, the homogeneous of Cathy Freeman at the 2000 Sydney Games, nonetheless is tough to hold that anything less than bullion in Saturday"s pentathlon foe would prove her ambition.

A second universe pretension would remove any guess that her feat in Berlin due as most to the under-performance of others as to her own luminosity and would endorse her as the new, loyal black of the all-rounders.

This time all 3 medallists from the Beijing Olympics will be backing up opposite her Dobyrnska, Hyleas Fountain of the United States, who longed for Berlin after injuring herself at the inhabitant trials, and Russia"s Tatyana Chernova. The latter was a shade of herself in Berlin, finishing in eighth place, but has bounced behind this deteriorate with a world-leading pentathlon measure of 4,855.

Given that Ennis"s prior most appropriate is 4,716, despite from 2007 when she last contested a five-event indoor competition, the Sheffield contestant will need to be at her most appropriate to win. She was only that in her season-opening coming in Glasgow in Jan when she pennyless the British 60 metres hurdles jot down and surpassed her indoor lifetime most appropriate in the high jump.

But her preparations have been hampered by a vinculum aria in her right foot, that forced her to lift out of the UK trials and the Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix last month and to take time off from high-impact training. She insists, though, that she is right away in undiluted condition.

"I know that I am in great figure and I have my own picturesque goals," she says. "I know the proceed precision has been going and I have set myself targets for each event." A feat would raise her standing as the brightest star in British athletics, though it would additionally move even higher levels of expectancy in the run-up to 2012.

Van Commenee, who coached Denise Lewis to heptathlon excellence at the Sydney Olympics, is deliberation asking Freeman to speak to Ennis about how to hoop the pressure. "Very couple of athletes have ever experienced carrying the purpose of the prime in the home Olympics," he says. "That will need a special proceed and special courtesy since that competence be something that gets in the way."

Ennis is happy to accept any assistance that is going, though she does not plan to get as well held up in the psychology. "Speaking to people who have been by it all and experienced it all and can pass on a little great difference of recommendation is really value doing," she says.

"But the some-more I keep articulate about it and worrying about it, the some-more it will be in the forefront of my mind. If I retard it out and get on with what I am doing, I think that is the most appropriate proceed forward." Sensible, single-minded things from a immature lady who knows that proceed she is heading. Straight to the tip of the podium.

Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland group for the World Indoor Championships, Doha, from Mar 12-14:

Men 60 metres: Dwain Chambers, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey; 400m: Richard Buck, Dale Garland; 800m: Andrew Osagie, Ed Aston; 1500m: Tim Bayley; 3000m: Scott Overall; 4x400m: Richard Buck, Dale Garland, Chris Clarke, Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams, Luke Lennon-Ford; High Jump: Samson Oni, Tom Parsons; Pole Vault: Steve Lewis; Long Jump: Greg Rutherford, Chris Tomlinson; Triple Jump: Phillips Idowu; Shot: Carl Myerscough.

Women 60m: Joice Maduaka; 800m: Jenny Meadows, Vicky Griffiths; 1500m: Helen Clitheroe, Charlotte Best; 3000m: Gemma Turtle, Barbara Parker; 60mH: Gemma Bennett; 4x400m: Victoria Barr, Hayley Jones, Dawn Hunt, Lee McConnell, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Kim Wall; High Jump: Vikki Hubbard; Pentathlon: Jessica Ennis.

Watch with full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, in online to one side on telegraph.co.uk in organisation with Aviva. Follow the fortunes of Aviva Team GB and NI in Doha for the IAAF World Indoor Championship, with stars such as Jessica Ennis, Jenny Meadows and Phillips Idowu set to contest in the tip indoor eventuality of the season. You can watch all of the eventuality to one side live online here. There will additionally be highlights and full sum in the lead up to Doha on the entertainment pages.