Maze designed to celebrate Katarina Johnson-Thompson

A Leicester maze has been designed to honour Group GB heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Wistow Maze is themed across the Olympics this 12 months, and its maize maze has been designed within the form of a javelin thrower.

Javelin is likely one of the seven occasions within the heptathlon, the game which Johnson-Thompson has competed in in any respect 4 Olympic video games since London 2012.

The maze comprises 12 quiz boards, hidden in three miles of pathways, that take a look at guests’ data of Olympic host nations and their most well-known landmarks.

“This 12 months, the Wistow Maze actually has the profitable mixture of enjoyable and studying, in addition to being a celebration of one of many UK’s greatest sporting competitions”, stated Diana Brooks, proprietor of Wistow Maze.

On the finish of the season, the maze is harvested for cattle fodder after which redesigned the next 12 months utilizing GPS satellite tv for pc expertise.

It would stay open every day till 1 September, then solely on weekends till 15 September.

Johnson-Thompson, from Liverpool, ended her look forward to an Olympic heptathlon medal after taking silver in a dramatic concluding 800m in Paris on Friday.

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