Johnson-Thompson achieved the sixth international podium of her profession finally 12 months’s World Championships – and her third in as a few years since recovering from a devastating Achilles rupture.
However she withdrew from the Commonwealth Video games final month to concentrate on being in form for the Europeans after battling to be match following an unspecified damage.
“We might at all times count on with Kat to be coming in, particularly with the Europeans, to attempt to win it,” former Olympic lengthy soar champion Greg Rutherford stated on BBC TV.
“This sport is brutal and you might be by no means allowed to benefit from the championships in case you are not profitable. That is how it’s at all times put to us, so that you by no means have these moments the place you possibly can go in entrance of a house crowd and simply get pleasure from doing the game.
“I really feel like that is what she is doing in the mean time. It isn’t about her coming right here to win medals.
“She’s having fun with it quite than stressing herself for medals and that may be a massive change.”
Former Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill added: “She’s on the stage the place there may be in all probability going to be only a few instances that she comes out and is feeling nice and has no niggles.
“So it’s important to make that call – do I am going out and compete anyway or do I step again and doubtlessly miss a load of championships as a result of I’m not feeling 100%?”
The heptathletes will return to Alexander Stadium for the lengthy soar on Saturday morning with Sulek-Schubert main the way in which on 3,968 factors.
Sofie Dokter of the Netherlands sits second on 3,944 factors, whereas Eire’s Kate O’Connor, who received Commonwealth gold this month, is an additional 18 factors behind in third with the lengthy soar, javelin and 800m remaining.