Johnson furious despite qualifying

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Johnson was way down the standings with jumps of 6.33m and 6.15m but produced a best of 6.61m with the penultimate leap of the entire competition to claim 11th place overall of the 12 qualifiers.

"Maybe tomorrow (Wednesday) I might be happy. I'm in the final but right now I'm still a bit mad with myself," said the 28-year-old, who saw former Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft qualify with 6.70m but world number one Naide Gomes of Portugal fail to advance.

She added: "I always make hard work of it, when have I ever had an easy ride? Never. Once I just accept that I'm never going to have an easy ride I'll be fine.

"But I think I've done the work, I've trained really well, I'm in great shape, it'll be easy this time and it never is. As long as I get that into my head I'm sure I'll be all right."