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Heptathlete
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete. There are two heptathlons – the men's and the women's heptathlon – composed of different events. The men's heptathlon is older and is held indoors, while the women's is held outdoors and was introduced in the 1980s, first appearing in the Olympics in 1984. Women's heptathlon Women's heptathlon is the combined event for women contested in the athletics programme of the Olympics and at the World Athletics Championships. The World Athletics Combined Events Tour 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English athlete primarily known as an elite multi-eventer, both as a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. She has been World Champion in both disciplines, and a double Commonwealth Games champion in heptathlon for England. Representing Great Britain, she won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and broke the British record with a score of 6,981 points, which ranks her at No. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. She also holds the British record indoors of 5,000 points for the women's pentathlon and won gold in that event at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as the 2015 and 2019 European Indoor Championships. She has also on occasion represented Great Britain in her two strongest multi-event disciplines, the individual high jump and long jump events. She holds the British high jump records with 1.98 m outdoors (2016) and 1.97 m indoors (2015), and in the long jump, she was the 2012 World Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Athletics Combined Events Tour
The World Athletics Combined Events Tour (formerly IAAF Combined Events Challenge and World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events) is an annual series of combined track and field events meetings, organised since 1998 by World Athletics, with heptathlon for women and decathlon for men. The winners are decided by totalling the number of points that the athletes have scored in each of three combined events competitions during the season. Points scored are determined by the World Athletics combined events scoring tables. The series includes annual independent combined events meetings as well as championship level combined events competitions, such as the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games. It is the premier seasonal competition for decathletes and heptathletes, as combined events are not held for the Diamond League. The total prize money available is US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $30,000, while seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nafissatou Thiam
Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (; born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. Thiam is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning the heptathlon event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the only Belgian athlete, male or female, to successfully defend an Olympic title and only the second woman after Jackie Joyner-Kersee to win back-to-back Olympic titles in the event. She won the gold medals at the 2017 and 2022 World Championships and 2018 and 2022 European Championships as well as the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. She was voted IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2017. She was a Belgian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In May 2017, at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, she became only the fourth woman to break the heptathlon 7000 point-barrier. As of October 2022, Thiam holds the Belgian records in women's heptathlon, women's javelin and women's long jump (out and indoor). She set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterina Voronina
Ekaterina Alexandrovna Voronina (russian: Екатерина Александровна Воронина; born 16 February 1992 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon. Her personal best for the event is 5912 points. She was the gold medallist in the event at the 2014 Asian Games. She is part of the Central Army Sports Club and is coached by Pavel Andreev, a compatriot and fellow multi-eventer.VORONINA Ekaterina . Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-02. As a teenager, Voronina specialised in the and was runner-up at the national championships at the age of fifteen. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Rodríguez
Adriana Rodríguez Fuentes (born 12 July 1999) is a Cuban athlete competing in the heptathlon and long jump. She represented her country in the latter at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year she won a heptathlon gold at the 2019 Pan American Games. International competitions Personal bests Outdoors *100 metres – 11.39 (+0.4 m/s, Camagüey 2018) *200 metres – 23.63 (+0.6 m/s, Barranquilla 2018) *400 metres – 54.14 (Havana 2019) *800 metres – 2:18.49 (Lima 2019) *100 metres hurdles – 13.32 (+0.1 m/s, Havana 2019) *High jump – 1.80 (Bydgoszcz 2016) *Long jump – 6.70 (-0.8 m/s, Cáceres 2019) *Shot put – 13.29 (Götzis 2018) *Javelin throw – 37.36 (Bydgoszcz 2016) *Heptathlon – 6113 (Lima 2019) Notes References External links Adriana Rodríguez Fuentesat the 2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. ''Sports Illustrated for Women'' magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. She is on the board of directors for USA Track & Field (U.S.A.T.F.), the national governing body of the sport. Joyner-Kersee is an active philanthropist in children's education, racial equality and women's rights. She is a founder of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, which encourages young people in East St. Louis to pursue athletics and academics. She collaborated with Comcast to create the Internet Essentials program in 2011, which provides high-speed internet access to low-income Americans. Joyner-Kersee is one of the most famous athletes to have overcome severe asthma. Early life Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odile Ahouanwanou
Odile Ahouanwanou (born 5 January 1991) is a Beninese heptathlete, who also specialises in the 100 metres hurdles; she holds Beninese records in both events. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2015 African Games and two African Championships in Athletics, and won a silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2015 African Games. Competition Ahouanwanou debuted internationally at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics in Porto-Novo, Benin. She competed in the heptathlon and finished sixth overall with a points score of 4983, 941 points behind the gold medalist. Ahouanwanou's best result in an individual discipline was fourth in both the javelin and shot put. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She placed eighth out of nine competitors in Heat 6, setting a new Beninese national record at 14.76 seconds. Ahouanwanou's next major competition was the 2014 African Championships in Athletics, where she finished eighth in the heptathlon with 4309 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariana Ince
Ariana Ince (born March 14, 1989) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the javelin throw. She represented her country at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships without qualifying for the final. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games. Her personal best in the event is 64.38 metres set in Zagreb in 2022. She qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the .... International competitions References External links * * * * * 1989 births Living people Track and field athletes from San Antonio American female javelin throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiara Reddingius
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2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport had an equal number of events for male and female athletes. 4,426 athletes including 300 para-athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations took part in the event. The Gambia, which withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth Games Federation in 2013, was readmitted on 31 March 2018 and participated in the event. With 275 sets of medals, the games featured 18 Commonwealth sports, including beach volleyball, para triathlon and women's rugby sevens. These sporting events took place at 14 venues in the host city, two venues in Brisbane and one venue each in Cairns and Townsville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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