Katarina Johnson-Thompson banished her Tokyo Olympics demons to finish on the podium at the World Athletics Championships.The Liverpudlian shared the heptathlon bronze medal with America’s Taliyah Brooks. A joint medal in the heptathlon is unprecedented given the intricate scoring system for all eight events that make up the heptathlon.Johnson-Thompson went into the final discipline, the 800 metres, needing to finish approximately six seconds ahead of Brooks to secure the bronze medal.Luckily for the 32-year-old, that is what transpired as she crossed the line second with a time of 2:07:38, her best of the season.Brooks finished ninth in the discipline with a personal best time of 2:13:17.Having finally completed the gruelling events that make up the heptathlon, Johnson-Thompson sat on the track as she waited for the final results of the heptathlon to trickle in.America’s Anna Hall finished first on 6888 points while Irish star Kate O’Connor came second with 6714 points.Brooks’ name then flashed on the big screen inside the National Stadium with a bronze medal icon next to it having accrued 6581 points, another personal best.Johnson-Thompson reacts to bronze medal finishYet Johnson-Thompson’s agony instantly turned to emotional ecstasy as her name then came up with the same number of points and, most crucially, the same bronze medal icon.“I thought that I wasn’t going to get it because my name was underneath hers on the scoreboard,” Johnson-Thompson said.“I’ve never seen it before. And I’m not questioning it.Johnson-Thompson couldn’t believe she had scooped a bronzeGettyThe Liverpudlian failed to contain her emotionsAFP“I didn’t celebrate until they actually put the medal around my neck because I was thinking, ‘What the hell was that?’“Exactly the same points, you couldn’t write it. And I’m so happy that neither of us lost by a point because that would have been horrendous.”Johnson-Thompson overcame Tokyo nightmare with bronze medalA bronze medal was perhaps the perfect way for Johnson-Thompson to erase the trauma from 2021 Games, which took place inside the same venue.Having recovered in time from a ruptured Achilles, the 32-year-old went down injured during the 200m event of the heptathlon and exited the track on crutches.It was later revealed she had torn her calf.“I’ve been through it in this stadium,” Johnson-Thompson said.Johnson-Thompson is a two-time heptathlon world champion and an Olympic silver medallistGettyWhat disciplines make up the heptathlon?100 metres hurdlesHigh jumpShot put200 metresLong jumpJavelin throw800 metres“It holds so much emotion and to finish the 200m meant the world, and to finish with a medal this time around I can’t put into words the full circle moment I’ve just been through.“It just feels like I’ve rewritten a better story about this city.”Have athletes shared medals before?Surprisingly, Johnson-Thompson and Brooks’ respective bronze medals were not the first time the National Stadium had witnessed a similar scenario.At the Tokyo Olympics, Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatari athlete Mutaz Barshim earned plaudits from across the globe when they opted to share the medal for the men’s high jump.Both men consistently cleared the bar through 2.37 metres.With nothing separating the pair, they chose to avoid a jump-off to decide an outright winner and decided they’d both walk away with gold medals.GettyTamberi and Barshim became the first-ever joint winners of the men’s high jump at the Olympics[/caption]However, the notion of sharing gold was not on the cards for Shelby McEwen and Hamish Kerr in the same event at the Paris Olympics.The duo had cleared the 2.36m mark and were offered the chance to split first place. but instead agreed to do a jump-off.It was Kerr who prevailed as he became the first Olympic high jump champion from New Zealand.