Following her Olympic victory, the honours flooded in including having a Sheffield postbox painted gold in her honour. She appeared on a stamp, Sheffield United named a stand after her, she was given Freedom of the City of Sheffield, was named “British Olympic Athlete of the Year” as well as “European Female Athlete of the Year” and was featured on the cover of a special Olympic edition of the Beano as ‘Ennis the Menace’, talking part in the ‘Menace Heptathlon’

Photograph: D.C. Thomson/PA