KJT Katarina Johnson Thompson Mural by Paul Curtis
YOU GOT THIS, KJT!!!
🏃🏽♀️Katarina Johnson-Thompson🏃🏽♀️
This mural of British pentathlon athlete, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, was painted by Paul Curtis in the lead up to the 2024 Pari Olympics. It is located on Dale Street in the city centre of Liverpool (KJT's home town)
Paul (also from Liverpool) was chosen by British Gas to paint this piece of street art (BG sponsored the mural as part of their wider sponsorship deals with Team GB Olympians). This was Paul's 250th mural and his second of KJT (the other one was painted at St Mark's school in Halewood (Kat's primary school)).
The mural celebrates KJT's Liverpool roots and her journey all the way to the Olympics through sheer hard work and motivation. The statements (You'll never run alone, Progress not perfection, You've got this, Believe in yourself, Never give up) were chosen by KJT and British Gas.
The mural is the biggest in Liverpool, measuring 30 metre high and 12 metres wide. It's Paul's second largest mural to date, the largest being the record-breaking lizard mural in Ainsdale near Southport.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion and double Commonwealth Games champion. In indoor pentathlon, she is a world and double European champion.
Representing GB, Johnson-Thompson won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, breaking the British record with a score of 6,981 points which ranks her at No. 6 on the all-time lists. Her heptathlon results include finishing 13th at the 2012 London Olympics, fifth at the 2013 World Championships, sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and fifth at the 2017 World Championships.
She won the gold medal in the event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games before claiming silver at the 2018 European Championships. She retained her title at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
She also holds the British indoor pentathlon record of 5,000 points and won gold in that event at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as the 2015 and 2019 European Indoor Championships.
Johnson-Thompson's career has often coincided with those of fellow British athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill and Belgium's Nafi Thiam, with whom she has competed since junior competition. She is the only athlete to have defeated Thiam in global competition since Thiam won Olympic gold in 2016.
Johnson-Thompson has also occasionally represented Great Britain in her two strongest individual disciplines: the high jump and long jump. She holds the British high jump outdoor record, and in the long jump, she was the 2012 World Junior champion and the 2014 World Indoor silver medalist.
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The statements were chosen by KJT and British Gas. The mural is (I think) the biggest in Liverpool, measuring 30 metre high and 12 metres wide. It is my second largest mural to date.🙌
Thanks to @and.freeman for persevering with me to get this project to happen. Thanks to Councillor Christine Banks for helping source the wall. Thanks to DBD Liverpool and @bally84 for securing wall permits.
Also @excelsior_liverpool & @lovelockscoffeeshop for allowing use of their facilities during the painting.
Music by Bensound.com/royalty-free-music
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