Loughborough University athletes win six medals in World Championships

In the heptathlon, Katarina Johnson-Thompson won her second world title.

Loughborough University athletes have won medals at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

The team are bringing home a medal haul of three golds, one silver, and two bronze.

In the heptathlon, Katarina Johnson-Thompson won her second world title.

A recent Business Analytics graduate Ben Pattison won an 800m bronze, just three years after being diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening heart condition.

Great Britain’s men’s 4x400m relay bronze medal winners featured three Loughborough athletes – alumni pair Rio Mitcham and Charlie Dobson, and current PhD student Alex Haydock-Wilson.

Loughborough-based Chase Ealey defended her Worlds title to secure back-to-back gold medals in the shot-put with a throw of 20.43.

Neeraj Chopra – who trained at the University during the winter - made history by winning India’s first-ever gold medal at a World Championships with a throw of 88.17m in the javelin.