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The women's heptathlon competition at the
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, was won by
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 ...
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. The event was held at the
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on 12–13 August.


Summary

The defending 2012 Olympic champion and the 2015 World Champion, Britain's
Jessica Ennis-Hill Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 28 January 1986) is a British retired track and field athlete from England, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, ...
ranked second on the years rankings with 6733 points. The 2015 World runner-up
Brianne Theisen-Eaton Brianne Theisen-Eaton (born 18 December 1988) is a Canadian retired track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Theisen-Eaton holds the Canadian record fo ...
of Canada topped the season's lists with 32 points more. Katarina Johnson-Thompson had one of the highest personal best scores, though her fitness for the two-day event was in question, ranking 17th in the world. Other strong entrants included 2016 European Champion
Anouk Vetter Anouk Vetter (; born 4 February 1993) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Vetter claimed bronze an ...
and world medallist Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa (ranked third and fourth for the season). While South American Champion
Evelis Aguilar Evelis Jazmin Aguilar Torres (born 3 January 1993) is a Colombian athlete competing in the combined events. Earlier in her career she specialised in the 400 metres sprint. With a personal best of 6346 points, she is the current national record ...
from Colombia did not reach the top 10 she improved her personal best in 5 events during the competition.


Day one

In the first event Ennis-Hill was the expected top finisher with 12.84 seconds (her best in a championship since the London Olympics). Theisen-Eaton was off her best at 13.18 and Johnson-Thompson was a tenth off her own. The top three performers were rounded out by Barbadian Akela Jones (13.00) and Dutchwoman Nadine Visser (13.02). World heptathlon bests came in the high jump, courtesy of Belgium's
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 ...
and Johnson-Thompson's clearances of 1.98 m (the latter setting an outright British record). The pair led the rankings after the second event. Jones was short of her best but still cleared 1.89 m to place fourth. Ennis-Hill and Theisen-Eaton performed close to their best and remained in the top five overall. Despite an elbow injury, Thiam topped the shot put with 14.91 m to take the lead in the third round. Solid marks from Ennis-Hill, Theisen-Eaton and Jones saw them remain in the top five. Her weakest event, Johnson-Thompson slid to out of the lead and into sixth place after a poor 11.68 m. Germany's
Carolin Schäfer Carolin Schäfer (born 5 December 1991) is a German athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Schäfer took bronze at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. ...
moved into the top five with a personal best.
Barbara Nwaba Barbara Udoezi Nwaba (born January 18, 1989) is an American track and field athlete who represents the Santa Barbara Track Club. Nwaba is known for the multi events, pentathlon and heptathlon. She is the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field champio ...
and Visser placed in the top three of this event but remained outside the top eight. In the last event of the day, Johnson-Thompson was best in the 200 m, winning in 23.26 seconds to lift herself back to fourth. Ennis-Hill was the next best, moving into the lead as a result, and Thiam was in second after delivering her best first-day performance. Jones and Schäfer made up the top five, while a slow run from Theisen-Eaton saw her drop to sixth.


Day two

Thiam regained the lead as a result of a 6.58 m personal best in the long jump. Britain's Ennis-Hill and Johnson-Thompson both were a little short of their best with 6.34 m and 6.51 m, respectively, but remained in the top three. Akela Jones stayed in fourth place. Theisen-Eaton scored over 1000 points in the event, but remained nearly 150 points off the lead in fifth.
Claudia Rath Claudia Salman-Rath ( Rath; born 25 April 1986, in Hadamar) is a German Athletics (sport), athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. Rath represented Germany at the 2010 European Championships in Athletics where she finished 11th in the 2010 Eu ...
was the second best performer of the round with 6.55 m but was down the order in 14th. Despite carrying an elbow injury, Thiam excelled in the javelin with a personal best of 53.13 m. Ennis-Hill remained in second through her throw of 46.06 m, while Theisen-Eaton's 47.36 m put her ahead of fourth-placed Schäfer. A poor throw of 36.36 m pushed Johnson-Thompson out of medal contention. Latvia's
Laura Ikauniece-Admidina Laura Ikauniece (formerly Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa; born 31 May 1992) is a Latvian athlete competing in heptathlon. Participated in two Olympic Games. 2012 London Olympics 6414 points 7th place, 2016 Rio de Janeiro 6617 points 4th place. Her pers ...
was the best of the round with 55.93 m, moving into fifth before the final event.
Sofía Yfantídou Sofia Yfantidou (Greek: Σοφία Υφαντίδου; also transcribed in English Ifadidou; born 10 January 1985) is a Greek track and field athlete. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's heptathlon event. She finished 24th, wi ...
of Greece was the other strong performer of the event with 54.57 m, moving her out of last place. At the start of the seventh event, Thiam had a 142-point lead worth nearly ten seconds for the 800 m. In the final race, Ennis-Hill took to the front and was on for a personal best at the halfway point, trailed by Theisen-Eaton, Johnson-Thompson and Ikauniece-Admidina. The Briton finished the race in first with 2:09.07 minutes (a season's best). Latvia's Ikauniece-Admidina had a personal best to finish second, but with Theisen-Eaton, close behind, she retained her bronze medal spot. Thiam ran her fifth lifetime best of the competition ended with 2:16.54 minutes. She remained 35 points clear at the top of the leaderboard and won the gold medal in a Belgian national record of 6810 points. Ennis-Hill relinquished her title with a 6775-point silver medal performance while Theisen-Eaton made her first Olympic podium in 6653 points. The standard of the performances in the field was high, with six women going beyond 6500 points in a heptathlon for the first time and best ever score for placings across the field from sixth onwards (bar ninth and twelfth). The event would ultimately prove to be Ennis-Hill's final major competition, as she announced her retirement from athletics two months later. The medals were presented by
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Competition format

The
heptathlon 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 hept ...
consists of seven
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events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the seven components. The seven event scores are summed to give a total for the heptathlon.


Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. The following national records were established during the competition:


Schedule

All times are
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( UTC-3)


Detailed results


100 metres hurdles

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s


High jump


Shot put


200 metres

Wind: -0.7, +0.4, +0.0, -0.1 m/s.


Long jump


Javelin throw


800 metres


Overall results

The final results of the event are in the following table.Results of women's heptathlon at the Olympic Games 2016
/ref> ;Key: *Ekaterina Voronina retired during the high jump and did not participate in the remaining events.


References

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