The women's

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at the

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took place between August 15 and 16 at the

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. The qualifying standards were 6,000 points (A standard) and 5,800 points (B standard).

Schedule

All times are

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)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Overall results

;Key: * Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified after she tested positive for methyltestosterone. Russia's

Tatyana Chernova Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian former heptathlete. She was originally awarded the bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics befor ...

, who inherited the bronze medal following Blonska's disqualification was herself disqualified after a retest of her 2008 drug sample was found to contain metabolites of turinabol.

Notes

References

Official final classification

Schedule
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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 ...

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