Heptathlon

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Heptathlon

A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta (seven) and athlon (contest). A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.

Contents [hide]
1 Structure
2 World Record
2.1 Record Progression
3 Best Year Performance
3.1 Women's Seasons Best (Outdoor)
4 Top Ten Performers
5 National records
6 See also
6.1 Other multiple event contests
7 External links



[edit] Structure
There are two versions of the heptathlon. The first is an outdoor competition for women, and is the combined event for women contested in the Athletics program of the Olympics and in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The IAAF World Combined Events Challenge determines a yearly women's heptathlon champion. The women's outdoor heptathlon consists of the following events, with the first four contested on the first day, and the remaining three on day two:

100 metres hurdles
high jump
shot put
200 m
long jump
javelin throw
800 m
The other version is an indoor competition, normally contested only by men. It is the men's combined event in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. The men's indoor heptathlon consists of the following events, with the first four contested on the first day, and remaining three on day two:

60 m
long jump
shot put
high jump
60 m hurdles
pole vault
1000 m
The scoring is similar for both versions. In each event, the athlete scores points for his/her performance in each event according to scoring tables issued by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).[1] The athlete accumulating the highest number of points wins the competition.

The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics. In recent years some women's decathlon competitions have been conducted, consisting of the same events as the men's competition, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it. But the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women.


[edit] World Record
The current heptathlon world record is 7291 points. It was set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, on September 24, 1988.

Her scores in each event were:

Event Performance Wind (m/s) Points
100 m hurdles 12.69 secs +0.5 1172
High jump 1.86 m 1054
Shot put 15.80 m 915
200 m 22.56 secs +1.6 1123
Long jump 7.27 m +0.7 1264
Javelin 45.66 776
800 m 2 mins 08.51 secs 987

Joyner-Kersee has gone over 7,000 points six times and holds the top six places on the all-time performances list. She is also the only person ever to have done so when over the age of 30.[2] Carolina Klüft and Larisa Turchinskaya are the only other women to have topped 7000 points, with Kluft having done so twice.


[edit] Record Progression
POINTS ATHLETE VENUE DATE
6104 Jane Frederick (USA) Walnut 1981-04-24
6181 Nadezhda Vinogradova (URS) Kislovodsk 1981-05-05
6670 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Halle 1981-05-24
6788 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Kiev 1981-06-28
6845 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Halle 1982-06-20
6935 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Moscow 1983-06-19
6946 Sabine John (GDR) Potsdam 1984-05-06
7148 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Moscow 1986-07-07
7158 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Houston 1986-08-02
7215 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Indianapolis 1988-07-16
7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul 1988-09-24


[edit] Best Year Performance

[edit] Women's Seasons Best (Outdoor)
YEAR POINTS ATHLETE VENUE
1980 6049 Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (URS) Pyatigorsk
1981 6788 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Kiev
1982 6845 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Halle
1983 6935 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Moscow
1984 6946 Sabine John (GDR) Potsdam
1985 6718 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Baton Rouge
1986 7158 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Houston
1987 7128 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Rome
1988 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul
1989 7007 Larisa Nikitina (URS) Bryansk
1990 6783 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seattle
1991 6878 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) New York City
1992 7044 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Barcelona
1993 6837 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Stuttgart
1994 6741 Heike Drechsler (GER) Talence
1995 6715 Ghada Shouaa (SYR) Götzis
1996 6942 Ghada Shouaa (SYR) Götzis
1997 6787 Sabine Braun (GER) Ratingen
1998 6559 Denise Lewis (GBR) Budapest
1999 6861 Eunice Barber (FRA) Seville
2000 6842 Eunice Barber (FRA) Götzis
2001 6736 Eunice Barber (FRA) Götzis
2002 6542 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Munich
2003 7001 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Saint-Denis
2004 6952 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Athens
2005 6889 Eunice Barber (FRA) Arles
2006 6740 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Gothenburg
2007 7032 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Osaka


[edit] Top Ten Performers
Accurate as of August 27, 2007
POINTS ATHLETE VENUE DATE
7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul 1988-09-24
7032 Carolina Klüft (SWE) Osaka 2007-08-26
7007 Larisa Turchinskaya (URS) Bryansk 1989-06-11
6985 Sabine Braun (GER) Götzis 1992-05-31
6946 Sabine John (GDR) Potsdam 1984-05-06
6942 Ghada Shouaa (SYR) Götzis 1996-05-26
6935 Ramona Neubert (GDR) Moscow 1983-06-19
6889 Eunice Barber (FRA) Arles 2005-06-05
6859 Natalya Shubenkova (URS) Kiev 1984-06-21
6858 Anke Vater-Behmer (GDR) Seoul 1988-09-24


[edit] National records
As of 2007-12-31
POINTS NATION ATHLETE DATE PLACE
7291 USA Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1988-09-24 Seoul
7032 SWE Carolina Klüft 2007-08-26 Osaka
7007 RUS Larisa Nikitina 1989-06-11 Bryansk
6985 GER Sabine Braun 1992-05-31 Götzis
6946 GDR Sabine John 1984-05-06 Potsdam
6942 SYR Ghada Shouaa 1996-05-26 Götzis
6889 FRA Eunice Barber 2005-06-05 Arles
6832 UKR Lyudmyla Blonska 2007-08-26 Osaka
6831 GBR Denise Lewis 2000-07-30 Talence
6750 CHN Ma Miaolan 1993-09-12 Beijing
6695 AUS Jane Flemming 1990-01-28 Auckland
6658 BUL Svetla Dimitrova 1992-05-31 Götzis
6635 BLR Svetlana Buraga 1993-08-18 Stuttgart
6619 ROM Liliana Nastase 1992-08-02 Barcelona
6616 POL Malgorzata Nowak 1985-08-31 Kobe
6604 LTU Remigija Nazaroviene 1989-06-11 Bryansk
6573 HUN Rita Inancsi 1994-05-29 Götzis
6527 JAM Diane Guthrie-Gresham 1995-06-03 Knoxville
6423 GHA Margaret Simpson 2005-05-29 Götzis
6423 NED Karin Ruckstuhl 2006-08-08 Gothenburg
6416 SLE Eunice Barber 1996-09-15 Talence
6404 FIN Satu Ruotsalainen 1991-08-27 Tokyo
6392 ALG Yasmina Azzizi 1991-08-27 Tokyo
6371 URS Vera Yurchenko 1987-09-20 Lvov
6352 CUB Magalys García 1996-06-23 Havana
6343 CAN Jessica Zelinka 2007-05-27 Götzis
6279 LAT Liga Klavina 2001-07-15 Amsterdam
6278 NZL Joanne Henry 1992-03-01 Auckland
6265 SUI Corinne Schneider 1985-06-16 Zug
6235 GRE Aryiro Strataki 2006-05-28 Götzis
6230 POR Naide Gomes 2005-07-17 Logroño
6201 BEL Tia Hellebaut 2006-06-03 Götzis
6017 BRA Conceição Geremias 1983-08-25 Caracas
5860 ESP María Peinado 2002-07-14 Castellón


[edit] See also
List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)

[edit] Other multiple event contests
Biathlon
Duathlon
Triathlon
Quadrathlon
Pentathlon
Modern pentathlon
Octathlon (primarily a youth or junior event although logistical problems have seen senior octathlons contested, for example at the 2007 South Pacific Games)
Decathlon
Chess-boxing

[edit] External links
National Records
IAAF combined events scoring tables and explanation
Heptathlon points formula
Heptathlon all-time list
[show]v • d • eOlympic Champions in the Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon

Pentathlon 1964: Irina Press • 1968: Ingrid Becker • 1972: Mary Peters • 1976: Siegrun Siegl • 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko

Heptathlon 1984: Glynis Nunn • 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee • 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee • 1996: Ghada Shouaa • 2000: Denise Lewis • 2004: Carolina Klüft • 2008: Nataliya Dobrynska

[show]v • d • eAthletics events

Sprints 50m · 55m · 60 m · 100 m · 150m · 200 m · 300m · 400 m · 500m

Hurdles 60 m · 100 m · 110 m · 400 m

Middle distance 800 m · 1500 m · 3000 m steeplechase

Long distance 5000 m · 10000 m · Half marathon · Marathon

Relays 4 × 100 m · 4 × 400 m

Throws Discus · Hammer · Javelin · Shot put

Jumps High jump · Long jump · Pole vault · Triple jump

Combination Pentathlon · Heptathlon · Decathlon

Uncommon field events weight throw · Standing high jump · Standing long jump · Standing triple jump

Cross country running · Multiday race · Racewalking · Ultramarathon · Wheelchair racing


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