Jessica Ennis-Hill will be granted her 2011 world title once deadline passes on Friday for Russian drug cheat Tatyana Chernova
Chernova was stripped of the 2011 heptathlon title for doping after a lengthy battle by Ennis-Hill, who had to settle for silver in Daegu
JESSICA ENNIS-HILL will be officially granted her 2011 world title once the deadline passes on Friday for any appeal by Russian drug cheat Tatyana Chernova.
Chernova was stripped of the 2011 world heptathlon title in November for doping after a lengthy battle by Ennis-Hill, who had to settle for silver in Daegu, to be upgraded.
She had 45 days to appeal against the decision after bring notified by post and once Friday passes, the sport's governing body the IAAF plan to ratify Ennis-Hill's gold medal.
As of Thursday night, the IAAF were not aware of any appeal.
It means Ennis-Hill - who was awarded a damehood in the New Year honours - cements her place as one of the greatest British track and field athletes bringing her tally to THREE world titles as well as Olympic gold at London 2012 and silver in Rio this summer.
SunSport revealed last month that athletics chiefs want the Sheffield athlete to be presented with the gong in the Olympic Stadium at the World Championships in London this August - the scene of her Super Saturday glory.
The move follows almost a two year fight by Ennis-Hill and her team to get upgraded with her case overshadowed by the doping scandal which engulfed the sport and its now disgraced former president Lamine Diack.
The Sheffield athlete announced her retirement from athletics in November.
Chernova beat Ennis-Hill to gold in South Korea over FIVE years ago but in February 2015 was given a drugs ban and had her results from August 15 2009 to 14 August 2011 wiped out after an old blood sample was re-tested.
But that ban ended just 16 DAYS before she won the world title with a personal best of 6,880 points beating defending champion Ennis-Hill's 6,751points.
Russian athletics chiefs allowed her to keep the world title even though critics claim she qualified for Daegu during the period her results have been erased from history.
But the sport's governing body the IAAF and new president Seb Coe vowed to take up the case.
in November the court of arbitration for sport ruled that ALL of Chernova's results between August 15 2011 and July 22 2013 would be annulled.
This was because she was handed a ban of three years, eight months, for a separate blood doping violation.
That means she loses her gold from Daegu, South Korea and Olympic BRONZE from London when she finished behind Ennis-Hill. Lithuanian Austra Skujyte will be upgraded to Olympic bronze after finishing fourth.
Ironically Ennis-Hill admitted after winning Olympic gold at London 2012 that losing to Chernova had spurred her on to success at the home Games.
And at one point she even had a picture of Chernova crossing the 800m finish line ahead of her in Daegu pinned up on the wall as she trained for London 2012 .
Her coach Toni Minichiello, who also had the same picture on his iPad to remind her that the defeat should never happen again in London.