Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill set a personal best in the javelin at a European Athletics Permit event at Loughborough on Tuesday but remains a doubt for next month’s World Cham-pionships.

The 27-year-old, who has been dogged by injury since winning heptathlon gold at the London Olympics last year, said she was still feeling pain in her Achilles tendon.

“It’s pain. It’s one little bit that’s really painful,” she was quoted as saying by British media.

“When I compress it and when I’m pushing off it hurts.

“If I had one event to prepare for, then maybe it would have been a bit easier. But having to train for seven events and get all the work done that I needed to get done, it just hasn’t happened, unfortunately.”

Ennis-Hill, whose left ankle was heavily strapped, threw 48.33 metres in the javelin – her previous best was 47.49 – to finish fourth and also won the long-jump competition.

But she will not decide whether to compete at the worlds in Moscow, which get underway on August 10, until she is certain she can compete for the title.