Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill showed on Thursday that she has one or two extra bows to her sporting string other than the seven disciplines she competes in during the heptathlon.

Jessica Ennis-Hill took the top award at the Sportswomen of the Year ceremony on Friday. The Olympic champion returned from giving birth to her first child to land World Championship gold.

Taking the top prize at the Sportswomen of the Year 2015 ceremony on Friday, the Olympic heptathlon champion capped off a sensational year when she beat off the competition yet again.

Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach has told Sebastian Coe to immediately start drawing up a list of medals that should be taken from drug cheats and handed to the athletes they robbed.

With under a month until the BBC hand out one of the most coveted individual trophies in British sport, several of our top stars took their chance to put forward their names last weekend.

New world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has appeared in an online video in which he says Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill 'slaps up good'.

The London 2012 Olympic champion laughed off suggestions that the controversy would take the shine off her inclusion in the 12-strong shortlist for the awards night in Belfast on December 20.

World and Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill inspires kids to do the robot and a dad even to do the worm in a Barnsley shopping centre in Santander's 2015 Christmas commercial.

Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford have been named sportswoman and sportsman of the year by the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA).

Davis Cup hero Andy Murray and athletics icon Jessica Ennis-Hill are the frontrunners to collect this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year gong on Sunday night.

INTERVIEW BY MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill accepts that, through no fault of her own, some people might be deterred from voting for her because of the doping crisis engulfing athletics.

Andy Murray has picked up his second Sports Personality of the Year title after a successful year which saw him finish as world No 2 and help Great Britain to Davis Cup success in Belgium.

The three British sporting stars have put their years of mixed success behind them to combine for a special video with a Star Wars theme, coinciding with the release of the new blockbuster film.

The 26-year-old swimmer looked sensational in a plunging lace gown which flaunted her trim figure while track and field athlete Jessica, 29, went for a flirty prom-style frock

MATT LAWTON: Fortunately for the BBC, the public were rather more impressed with tennis ace Andy Murray than the sports personality of the year was with Tyson Fury.

Heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, 29, says she almost considered leaving athletics after having son Reggie in July 2014 but decided to take one last shot at Olympic gold in Rio this year.

Jessica Ennis-Hill joked she will spend her 30th birthday next Thursday in tears and admitted being preoccupied by the landmark age.

MARTHA KELNER: The 29-year-old spoke passionately about feeling betrayed by the very people she should have been able to trust to protect her as a clean athlete.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is to miss the indoor athletics season after suffering an achilles injury while training. The reigning Olympic heptathlon champion has not put a timescale on her recovery.

Lewis Hamilton and Jessica Ennis-Hill's stellar sporting 2015 seasons have been recognised with nominations for the prestigious Laureus Awards.

Jessica Ennis-Hill remains confident she will be in good shape to defend her Olympic title despite only just returning to training after an achilles injury ruled her out of the indoor season.

With 100 days to go until the opening ceremony in Rio, Britain's world and Olympic heptathlon champion said on Tuesday she already felt 2016 would be unlike any other year for her.

The virus, linked to cases of the microcephaly birth defect, has spread in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading athletes to consider whether to attend the Games.

Olympic gold medallist JESSICA ENNIS-HILL credits her mum ALISON as key to her success. And with son Reggie on the scene, this support is more vital than ever as she focuses on Rio.

Anthony Joshua took a trip down memory lane when he caught up with fellow London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill on Saturday.

Jessica Ennis-Hill faces a key test of her Olympic preparations in Germany this weekend when she competes in her first heptathlon since winning gold at last year's World Championships.

The 30-year-old is set to look the part when she defends her heptathlon crown in Rio this summer after picking up her Team GB kit for Brazil at an event in Birmingham on Tuesday.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is content to be heading into the Rio Olympics in a more relaxed frame of mind than she entered London 2012 when carrying the hopes of a nation.

It was a far cry from Rio de Janeiro but Britain’s golden girl Jessica Ennis-Hill impressed as she put the final touches to her Olympic preparation at the Stretford Grand Prix in Manchester.

The Muller Anniversary Games takes place at London's Olympic Stadium this weekend as some of the world's best athletes prepare for the start of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

ADAM SHERGOLD AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Ennis-Hill'S storming, season’s best performance in the 100m hurdles will have her rivals quivering ahead of next month's Olympics.

Toni Minichiello has coached Ennis-Hill, now 30, since she was 13, and believes she is capable of winning in 12 days’ time on what could be Super Saturday 2 for Team GB in Rio.

Golden girl Ennis-Hill was not at her best in the throwing event in Rio but was able to jump up one place from third after registering a 13.86m throw.

Day eight saw Mo Farah win gold in the 10,000m, as Jess Ennis-Hill took silver in the heptathlon and Greg Rutherford claimed a bronze medal in the men's long jump competition.

Jessica Ennis-Hill remains on course to defend her Olympic heptathlon title with just two events remaining after producing a solid performance in the long jump.

Andy Hill, who married the athlete in 2013, shared a photograph of the '#supermum' moments after she crossed the finish line in the 800m, the final round of the event.

MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill won the most stunning of silver medals on Sunday, coming within two seconds of defending her title as Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam clinched gold.

Jessica Ennis-Hill did not use the word retirement on Sunday morning when speaking after just three hours’ sleep, but it seemed her mind was made up as she reflected on her achievements.

Jessica Ennis says her son Reggie, two, is her priority now and that 'everything changed' after she became a mum. The 30-year-old has retired from Olympic sport after her silver medal in Rio.

Three of Great Britain's Olympic heroes, Justin Rose, Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis-Hill, returned home on Tuesday, but they did so in very different ways.

Sheffield athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill was pictured at London Heathrow Airport today, having achieved a heptathlon silver medal two years after the birth of her son Reggie.

To carry on, or not to carry on: that is the question now haunting Jessica Ennis-Hill. The woman who won gold in London 2012 and became a symbol of all that was glorious about the Games.

Track and field icon Jessica Ennis-Hill, who won heptathlon gold for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, has retired from athletics. The 30-year-old had hinted at retirement after Rio 2016.

The application Jessica Ennis-Hill made for a SportsAid grant as a 15-year-old has been revealed by the organisation's Twitter account on the day she announced her retirement.

MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill bowed out in her usual, understated fashion — posting a picture collage online showing the finest moments of what was a glittering career.

Experts predicted Ennis-Hill could earn at least double that after she called time on a stellar career that finished with Olympic silver in Rio, just two years on from having her first child, Reggie.

DALEY THOMPSON: Ennis-Hill would be among the five greatest British female athletes of all time and, had she not suffered a few injuries over the years, she could have been one of our best athletes in history.

The Olympic gold medallist has been called a ‘f****** whore’ and ‘a sl**’, while others have demanded that the Sheffield athlete apologise for ‘tarnishing Evans’s name’.

Jessica Ennis-Hill called time on her athletics career last week following the summer's Rio Olympics where she claimed a silver two years after giving birth to her first child, Reggie.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is set to be awarded her second World Championship heptathlon gold medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova will be stripped of her title.