The women's pentathlon at the

2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships was held from 1 to 4 March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This was the city's second hosting of the event as it previously did so in 2003. Bidding process Birmingham bid for the 2016 IAAF World Ind ...

took place on 2 March 2018.

Summary

No podium athletes returned from the previous championships, nor the 2017 World Championships or Olympics. The top returnee was sixth place Kendell Williams, while

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 ...

and Yorgelis Rodríguez just missed the medals at the

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less than six months earlier. Williams and her American teammate

Erica Bougard Erica Marsha Bougard (born July 26, 1993) is an American heptathlete. She was NCAA indoor champion in 2013 and represented the United States at the 2013 World Championships. Biography Erica Bougard was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but grew up i ...

dominated the first event, running the 60 meters hurdles in 8.08 and 8.07, respectively. Johnson-Thompson and Rodríguez came forward in the high jump clearing and 1.88m respectively. Johnson-Thompson took a 13 point lead over Bougard. Antoinette Nana Djimou had the best shot put by more than a metre over any of the leaders, 3 metres over Bougard, Williams and almost as much for Johnson-Thompson. Rodríguez took over the lead by 13 points over Johnson-Thompson, while

Ivona Dadic Ivona Dadic (born 29 December 1993) is an Austrian track and field athlete of Bosnian descent. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's heptathlon event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she finished 8th. Early life and career Ivona ...

moved into third just a point behind Johnson-Thompson. Back to another Johnson-Thompson specialty event, she long jumped to put 10 cm on Dadic and 35 cm on Rodríguez. A 2 cm superior jump by Eliška Klučinová was enough to displace Bougard from fourth place, both more than 100 points out of second place, still almost 40 points behind Rodríguez in third. In the final event, the

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, Johnson-Thompson left no doubt, winning the race outright. More than a second behind her, Rodríguez did beat Dadic, but only by .12, not nearly enough to make up the 65 point deficit.

Results

60 metres hurdles

The 60 metres hurdles were started at 10:18.

High jump

The high jump was started at 11:54.

Shot put

The shot put was started at 13:29.

Long jump

The long jump was started at 18:00.

800 metres

Katarina Johnson-Thompson Birmingham 2018

The 800 metres were started at 20:18.

Final standings

After all events.

References

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