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		</div><p>Jessica Ennis-Hill has announced her retirement from athletics.</p>
<p>The 30-year-old won Olympic gold in the heptathlon at London 2012 and silver at Rio 2016, and is a two-time world champion.</p>
<p>Ennis-Hill released a statement on her Instagram account saying it was &#8220;one of the toughest decisions&#8221; she has faced but &#8220;retiring now is right&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Sheffield athlete, who is also a two-time world champion, competed in Rio just two years after the birth of her son Reggie.</p>
<p>&#8220;Amazing memories&#8230;from my first world title in Berlin 2009 to Rio 2016 I&#8217;m so fortunate to have had such an amazing career within the sport I love and this has been one of the toughest decisions I&#8217;ve had to make,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram.</p>
<p>&#8220;But I know that retiring now is right. I&#8217;ve always said I want to leave my sport on a high and have no regrets and I can truly say that.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to thank my family and incredible team who have spent so much of their time supporting me and enabling me to achieve my dreams. Also a huge thank you to all those people who have supported and followed my career over the years x&#8221;<br />
Sheffield-born Ennis-Hill had taken time out between the Games to have son Reggie, missing the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and did hint about retirement immediately after winning silver in Brazil.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a tough decision, I&#8217;m going to go away and think about it,&#8221; she told the BBC at time time. &#8220;At this moment, I&#8217;m tired and emotional, it&#8217;s a big decision.&#8221;</p>
<p>She returned after the birth of her son in July 2014 to win the World Athletics Championships in Beijing last year having already achieved the qualifying standard for Rio.</p>
<p>It was her second world heptathlon title after winning in Berlin in 2009 while she also claimed silver two years later.</p>
<p>Ennis-Hill&#8217;s senior breakthrough came in 2006 when she won bronze at her only Commonwealth Games &#8211; finishing behind winner and team-mate Kelly Sotherton &#8211; while she also won gold at the 2010 European Championships and the World Indoor Pentathlon title the same year.</p>
<p>The victories were part of her dominance of the sport between 2009 and 2012 ahead of glory at London 2012.</p>
<p>She won the 100 metres hurdles before coming sixth in high jump and 10th in shot put. A personal best of 22.83 seconds saw her second in the 200 metres and Ennis-Hill was also second in the long jump before throwing 47.49 metres, a personal best, in the javelin to finish 10th and put her on the brink of the title.</p>
<p>She completed victory with a season&#8217;s best of two minutes and eight seconds in the 800metres to win the race and the Olympic crown.</p>
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