Jess Ennis-Hill 'thrilled' to become three time world champion
Sheffield's golden girl crowned three time world champion, after Russian drug cheat stripped of 2011 heptathlon title
Jessica Ennis-Hill says she's thrilled to 'finally' receive her gold medal - after the woman who beat her in 2011 was stripped of her title due to a doping offence.
Jess - who announced her retirement from athletics last month - finished runner-up to Tatyana Chernova in Daegu five years ago.
In 2013 the Russian had her results annulled after a sample from the 2009 world championship was re-analysed and tested positive for a banned steroid.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled she must now forfeit her gold medal after an analysis of her biological passport dating back to 2009 showed evidence of blood doping.
CAS said in a statement: *All results achieved by Tatyana Chernova between 15 August, 2011, and 22 July, 2013, are annulled and the athlete will forfeit any titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money obtained during this period.''*
Jess posted about it on Instagram alongside a picture of her and a celebrating Chernova in Daegu.
She said: *This image was forever imprinted in my mind! However much it drove me on for what I was about to achieve at my first Olympics in London, in my heart I just knew it was wrong. So happy to finally be receiving my gold medal. Triple World Champion WOW.''*
The 30-year-old claimed her two other heptathlon world golds at Berlin in 2009 and Beijing last year.
Germany's Jennifer Oeser is set to be promoted from her third place finish while Polish athlete Karolina Tyminska will now be given a bronze medal from the 2011 championships.
CAS' decision means Chernova also loses her London 2012 bronze medal.
Jessica's former coach Toni Minichello has praised the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the decision - saying it's like 'a late birthday present for him, and an early Christmas present for her'.