Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek and Grenada&rsquo;s Lindon Victor are the winners of the 2022 World Athletics Combined Events Tour, rewarding their season-long consistency in the heptathlon and decathlon respectively.
The Combined Events Tour, which this year replaced the former Combined Events Challenge, takes athletes&rsquo; best three marks across the series and converts them into performance scores (as also used by the world rankings system). Winners of the Combined Events Tour receive a wildcard entry for the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, as well as a US$30,000 bonus.
The top five at the end of the season are:
Heptathlon 1 Adrianna Sulek (POL) 3498 2 Annik Kalin (SUI) 3463 3 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 3409 4 Claudia Conte (ESP) 3307 5 Bianca Salming (SWE) 3268 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/standings/2022/women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full standings</a>
Decathlon 1 Lindon Victor (GRN) 3608 2 Simon Ehammer (SUI) 3578 3 Marcus Nilsson (SWE) 3436 4 Dario Dester (ITA) 3414 5 Finley Gaio (SUI) 3333 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/standings/2022/men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full standings</a>
Sulek enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2022, which began with her silver medal at the World Indoor Championships Belgrade 22. That strong form continued outdoors on the Combined Events Tour, starting with her victory on home soil in Bydgoszcz at the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial, the newest addition to the Gold level meetings on the tour, and a meeting that is named in memory of her former coach.
Just two weeks later, Sulek smashed her PB to finish second at the prestigious Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis, scoring 6429. That remained her PB until the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, where she scored 6672. Although she narrowly missed out on a medal, ultimately placing fourth, she found consolation in the fact that she broke the long-standing Polish record.
Sulek ended her season by taking silver at the European Championships with 6532 &ndash; her fourth heptathlon this year in which she has exceeded 6400 points.
Annik Kalin finished second in the series, following a great season for the Swiss all-rounder. She won at the Multistars meeting in Grosseto with a national record of 6398. She went on to break that with her sixth-place finish at the World Championships (6464) and with her bronze medal at the European Championships (6515).
Emma Oosterwegel finished third in the series, having placed fifth in G&ouml;tzis (6265), seventh at the World Championships (6440) and joint first in Talence (6233).
Victor had a similarly high quality and consistent season. Like Sulek, Victor started the year by setting a national indoor record at the World Indoor Championships, scoring 6029. His first decathlon of the season was in G&ouml;tzis, where he finished second with 8447. He improved on that season&rsquo;s best when finishing fifth at the World Championships with 8474, his best score and placing at a global championships.
Just two weeks later he struck gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, but that event is not part of the Combined Events Tour, so he needed one more performance within the series. He headed to the Decastar meeting in Talence and not only won, but he broke his own national record in the process, scoring 8550.
That was enough to move him to the top of the tour leader board with 3608 points, ahead of Switzerland&rsquo;s Simon Ehammer and Sweden&rsquo;s Marcus Nilsson.
Ehammer made as much of an impact in the decathlon this year as he did in the long jump. He won in Ratingen with 8354, then improved on that national record with 8377 in G&ouml;tzis to finish third &ndash; a series in which he leaped a world decathlon best of 8.45m in the long jump. He focused on just the long jump at the World Championships, taking bronze, and then reverted back to the decathlon for the European Championships, earning silver with 8468.
Nilsson won in Arona (8115), while his fourth-place finishes in Ratingen (7927) and at the European Championships (8327) contributed to his third-place finish in the overall standings.
World Athletics

World indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek and Commonwealth champion Lindon Victor top the end-of-season standings

Sulek and Victor confirmed winners of World Athletics Combined Events Tour

Commonwealth champion Lindon Victor broke his own Grenadian record with 8550 to win the decathlon at the Decastar meeting in Talence on Sunday (18), winning the overall men&rsquo;s title in the World Athletics Combined Events Tour in the process.
The women&rsquo;s Decastar heptathlon title, meanwhile, went right down to the wire as Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands and Ivona Dadic of Austria ended in a tie for victory, both women scoring 6233.
Victor was contesting his fourth decathlon of the year, having finished second in G&ouml;tzis and fifth at the World Championships before his triumph at the Commonwealth Games, but he showed relatively little sign of fatigue in Talence at this late stage of the season.
The 29-year-old opened his campaign with a wind-assisted 10.61 (3.1m/s) in the 100m, finishing second to Germany&rsquo;s Manuel Eitel with 10.44. Switzerland&rsquo;s Finley Gaio was third in 10.63.
Gaio leapt into the lead after the long jump, soaring 7.76m. That was seven centimetres farther than USA&rsquo;s Steven Bastien, his mark a PB, while Victor recorded 7.49m and Eitel 7.29m.
Come the shot put it was Victor&rsquo;s turn to launch ahead thanks to a 15.75m throw, almost a metre farther than any of his rivals. France&rsquo;s Makenson Gletty recorded 14.88m and Eitel a 14.86m PB. Lithuania&rsquo;s Edgaras Benkunskas topped the high jump with 2.08m, while Estonia&rsquo;s Risto Lillemets and USA&rsquo;s Jack Flood both cleared 2.05m and Victor 2.02m.
Victor ended day one with a win in his 400m heat, clocking a PB of 48.20 for the day&rsquo;s third-quickest time behind Germany&rsquo;s Malik Diakite (47.74) and Gaio with (48.19), giving the Grenadian an overnight score of 4438 and a 128-point lead over Gaio.
Victor&rsquo;s strong series continued on Sunday, starting the day with a 14.70 run in the 110m hurdles, just a few hundredths shy of his season&rsquo;s best. Gaio, an international-standard hurdler in his own right, dominated that event with a 13.68 run, giving him a brief lead before slipping down the leaderboard over the course of the day.
But Victor responded in the next event, throwing 51.00m &ndash; the best mark of the day &ndash; in the discus to regain the lead. Eitel remained in contention too, throwing 43.53m.
Victor equalled his 4.80m season&rsquo;s best in the pole vault and followed it with a 66.01m throw in the javelin, another strong event for the Grenadian, giving him a lead of almost 400 points going into the final event. &nbsp;Eitel remained in second place, following his 4.80m vault and a 60.51m javelin throw. Lillemets, meanwhile, climbed up to third place thanks to a 5.00m vault and 59.82m javelin throw.
Diakite was a comfortable winner of the 1500m, but all eyes were on Victor and whether he&rsquo;d do enough to break his own national record. He pulled out a lifetime best of 4:43.74, bringing his score to 8550 &ndash; an 11-point improvement on his previous best.
Eitel and Lillemets held on to their podium places, finishing second and third respectively with scores of 8193 and 8149. France&rsquo;s Makenson Gletty was close behind in fourth (8141).
In the heptathlon, 2018 world indoor pentathlon silver medallist Dadic started with 13.81 in the 100m hurdles, won by France&rsquo;s Esther Turpin in 13.51 from Oosterwegel, the Olympic bronze medallist, in 13.66.
Sweden&rsquo;s Bianca Salming topped the high jump, clearing 1.86m as USA&rsquo;s Ashtin Zamzow-Mahler managed 1.80m and Dadic and Turpin both went over 1.77m. Next up was the shot put, Switzerland&rsquo;s Geraldine Ruckstuhl leading the way with a PB throw of 14.68m, adding 10 centimetres to her previous best. Salming had the second best mark of 14.41m, while Oosterwegel threw 13.75m and Dadic 13.68m.
The day came to a close with the 200m, Dadic clocking 24.11 to give her a day-one score of 3689, 112 points ahead of Salming. Oosterwegel, meanwhile, was further down in fifth, almost 200 points adrift of the leader.
Dadic extended her lead in the first event of the second day, leaping 6.01m in the long jump. Oosterwegel recorded a best of 5.92m, moving her into second place overall.
But everything changed in the javelin. Oosterwegel launched her spear out to a lifetime best of 55.47m and catapulting herself into the lead, nine points ahead of Dadic, who threw 43.92m.
Dadic knew she had to finish a stride ahead of Oosterwegel in the final event, the 800m, to claw back the points deficit and regain the lead. And she did indeed finish ahead, clocking 2:11.12 to Oosterwegel&rsquo;s 2:11.78, but it was &lsquo;only&rsquo; enough to bring her level with the Dutch all-rounder, both women scoring 6233. Salming held on to third place with 6028.
The performance also elevated Oosterwegel up to third in the overall Combined Events Tour standings.
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/calendar-results/7171048/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>

Victor sets Grenadian record of 8550, Dadic and Oosterwegel tie with 6233 as the World Athletics Combined Events Tour comes to a close in Talence

Victor wins Decastar decathlon, Dadic and Oosterwegel tie for heptathlon title

More than 1500 athletes from 145 teams are set to compete at the&nbsp;World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22&nbsp;between 1-6 August.
Here we take a look at the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s race walks and combined events&nbsp;at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium. 
<h2>Women&rsquo;s 10,000m race walk</h2>
Just weeks after Japan&rsquo;s success in the race walks at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, the nation heads to Cali with hopes of another 1-2 finish, this time in the women&rsquo;s 10,000m race walk.
Ai Ooyama and Ayane Yanai are the fastest entrants for the championships, thanks to their road clockings of 45:19 and 45:21 respectively. Ooyama, who will be one of the youngest athletes in Cali, will be making her track debut, but if she is able to match her speed from the roads, then it should put her in medal contention.
Australia&rsquo;s Olivia Sandery already has considerably experience across a range of distances and surfaces. She holds the fastest time on the track this year by an U20 athlete with her 45:24.1 PB from January. A fifth-place finish at the World Race Walking Team Championships in March has no doubt fired up Sandery ahead of the World U20 Championships.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Valeriya Sholomitska also won&rsquo;t be short of motivation. The 17-year-old finished fourth at the World U20 Championships last year and at the World Race Walking Team Championships earlier this year. Since fleeing her home country earlier this year, she has been training and racing in different locations around the world.
Heta Veikkola finished strongly at the World Race Walking Team Championships to finish third. She went on to set PBs for 5000m (22:11.54), 5km (22:44) and 10km (46:02), which suggests her track 10,000m PB of 49:39.40 is due for serious revision.
Italy, another strong race walking nation, will be represented by Giada Traina, who has a best this year of 46:51.44. She didn&rsquo;t finish at the World Race Walking Team Championships but may fare slightly better on the track and in the kinder conditions of Cali. 
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 10,000m race walk</h2>
Heristone Wanyonyi, surprise winner of this title in Nairobi last year, will defend his title but this time the Kenyan takes on a much tougher line-up than before.
The 19-year-old may not have the fastest times to his name, but that&rsquo;s mainly because most of his races have either been at altitude or in extreme temperatures. He clocked 42:10.84 to win the title last year and is about a minute shy of that so far this year, but he was competitive at the World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat, placing fourth. And the three men who finished ahead of him there won&rsquo;t be in Cali.
Turkey&rsquo;s Mazlum Demir, who led for several kilometres at the World Race Walking Team Championships before fading and eventually finishing 11th, heads to Cali as the fastest man in the field. He clocked a national U20 record of 40:42.09 in June and he&rsquo;ll be keen to improve upon his sixth-place finish from last year&rsquo;s World U20 Championships.
Unsurprisingly, Japan and Italy have fielded strong teams in the race walks. Shotaro Shimoike and Riku Ooie will compete for Japan, both of whom have come close to breaking 41 minutes on the roads, while Italy will be represented by Nicola Lomuscio and Emiliano Brigante, whose track PBs are among the quickest in the field.
Colombia&rsquo;s Mateo Romero finished just two seconds behind Wanyonyi in Muscat earlier this year. The home crowd advantage could spur the 19-year-old to an even higher finish in Cali.
Algeria&rsquo;s Ismail Benhammouda, Ecuador&rsquo;s Terry Patricio Villacorte and Guatemala&rsquo;s Bryan Matias could all contest for medals too. 
<h2>Heptathlon</h2>
Saga Vanninen could become the first two-time world U20 heptathlon since Carolina Kluft achieved the feat 20 years ago.
The talented Finn was one of a handful of athletes last year to win gold at the World U20 Championships and European U20 Championships. She won the latter with a PB of 6271, a national U20 record.
She came close to that mark with 6193 in Oulu in late June, her second score in excess of 6000 points this year. She&rsquo;ll likely need a similar performance in Cali if she is to keep the strong German contingent at bay.
Sandrina Sprengel won the German U20 trials with a PB of 6015, but the competition was relatively close with Serina Riedel taking second place with 5894. Apart from the shot put, where Vanninen excels, these leading three entrants are relatively closely matched in most disciplines, so the competition should be a gripping one.
Estonia&rsquo;s Liisa-Maria Lusti should also be in medal contention. She has a PB of 5836 and will likely bank some big points in the jumping events. She is entered for the individual long jump and is a reserve for the high jump, an event in which she has a 1.86m PB. 
<h2>Decathlon</h2>
Jacob Thelander heads to Cali with a score that&rsquo;s 200 points better than any other decathlon entrant, but the Swedish all-rounder can&rsquo;t rest on his laurels as there are five other athletes with PBs in excess of 7500.
Thelander finished seventh at the European U20 Championships last year but has built on that experience and improved to 7823 this year, helped by strong performances in the jumps. Expect him to bank some big points in the high jump in particular, especially if he can match his 2.10m PB from earlier this year.
If, however, that event doesn&rsquo;t go to plan for him, the likes of Spain&rsquo;s Pol Ferrer, Yoram Vriezen of the Netherlands or French duo Pierre Blaecke and Sacha Rifflart could capitalise.
Ferrer recently improved by more than 400 points to win the Spanish U20 title with 7623. And while he set some big PBs within that series, he was some way off his best in the 400m, the javelin and the 1500m, which suggests there&rsquo;s potentially even more to come from him.
Vriezen, Blaecke and Rifflart have all improved significantly this year and will be keen to ride that wave through the battle for medals.
Norway&rsquo;s Abraham Sandvin Vogelsang is also worth keeping an eye on. While his season&rsquo;s best is 7385, he scored 7535 at the European U20 Championships last year and finished ahead of Thelander.
Others with medal potential include Germany&rsquo;s Roman Jocher, Czech Republic&rsquo;s Petr Svoboda and Gabriel Emmanuel of the Netherlands.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

World Athletics U20 Championships

A look at the men's and women's combined events and race walks.

WU20 Cali 22 preview: combined events and race walks

On a day when the focus was on putting women in the spotlight, three of the all-time greats of female athletics turned in truly stirring performances to light up Hayward Field at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Monday (18).
Venezuela&rsquo;s Yulimar Rojas, Kenya&rsquo;s Faith Kipyegon and Belgium&rsquo;s Nafi Thiam all maintained their global dominance with golden performances, while in the men&rsquo;s high jump final Mutaz Essa Barshim won his third straight world title by soaring over a world lead of 2.37m.
There was no bigger favourite at these championships than Rojas, but if the Olympic champion and world record-holder felt the pressure of defending her world title in Eugene, she sure didn&rsquo;t show it. Rousing the crowd in her typical effervescent style, Rojas set off down the runway for her second attempt and hopped, skipped and jumped her way to gold with a 15.47m effort, the second longest in World Championships history. Rojas knew at that point gold was assured, but the 26-year-old still had bigger ambitions.
On the final attempt she jumped 15.39m &ndash; officially &ndash; though her expression on exiting the pit told the story about how much distance she&rsquo;d given away on the board. Not that it mattered, with Rojas jumping to her feet and saluting the crowd, dancing as she went to retrieve her nation&rsquo;s flag &ndash; something she&rsquo;ll likely be doing many more times in the years ahead. 
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 &ldquo;I wanted a longer jump, but I am happy to return to this beautiful stadium, to see the crowd,&rdquo; said Rojas. &ldquo;I came with the goal to get closer to my world record. The wind affected my run-up, I tried to adjust, but the most important thing was to win the medal and stay consistent over 15 metres.&rdquo;
Jamaica&rsquo;s Shanieka Ricketts took silver with 14.89m while USA&rsquo;s Tori Franklin claimed bronze with 14.72m.
There was an equally peerless performance in the women&rsquo;s 1500m, where Kipyegon cemented her place as the greatest 1500m runner of all time &ndash; winning her fourth global 1500m title and setting a high bar for future generations to follow.
But she was made to work for it, with a breathless, lung-bursting pace churned out from the gun by chief rival Gudaf Tsegay, the Ethiopian blasting the opening lap in 58.82, and hitting 800m in 2:03.18.
If her rivals wanted to stay with Tsegay, then they&rsquo;d have to go to a dark place. In addition to Kipyegon, only Britain&rsquo;s Laura Muir and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Hirut Meshesha were willing to gamble and stick with it. For Muir it paid off. For Meshesha it didn&rsquo;t, and the Ethiopian fell to pieces on the final lap, finishing 13th.
With a lap to run up front it was down to three, and down the back straight Kipyegon could wait no longer. She powered to the lead and kicked away, hitting the line in 3:52.96 ahead of Tsegay (3:54.52) and Muir (3:55.28). It was the 10th fastest time in history and the second fastest ever in the US, behind the 3:52.59 she ran on the same track in May.
&ldquo;The Ethiopians controlled the race and I knew they were planning something special but for me, I was well prepared,&rdquo; said Kipyegon, who said she is targeting a PB at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco next month. &ldquo;Everybody was expecting something special from me. Everybody was like, &lsquo;Faith, we believe in Faith,&rsquo; so it was a real pressure. But I managed it.&rdquo;
Thiam&rsquo;s victory in the heptathlon went down to the wire, and that was due to an inspired effort by Dutch rival Anouk Vetter. Thiam had come into the day with a 61-point advantage over Vetter, which she extended with a 6.59m long jump (to Vetter&rsquo;s 6.52m), but the Dutchwoman claimed the lead in the javelin with a 58.29m throw to Thiam&rsquo;s 53.01m. Given there were two seconds&rsquo; differences between their 800m PBs &ndash; the gap between them equating to 1.3 seconds over 800m &ndash; the stage was set for a thrilling finale. 
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 Vetter tried to keep Thiam in her sights through the opening lap but the Belgian put broad daylight between them down the back straight, with Thiam producing an inspired kick through the final 200m to hit the line in 2:13.00, a two-second PB. That left her on 6947 points, with Vetter taking second with 6867 and USA&rsquo;s Anna Hall &ndash; who raised the roof by leading the 800m home in 2:06.67 &ndash; taking bronze with 6755. Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek was fourth with a national record of 6672.
In the men&rsquo;s high jump, Barshim once again showed his capacity for timing his best performances when it matters most, the Qatari recording a perfect series up to 2.37m to heap pressure on his competitors. It was a level no one else could match, with South Korea&rsquo;s Sanghyeok Woo taking silver with a national record of 2.35m and Ukraine&rsquo;s Andriy Protsenko &ndash; who fled his native country in March with his family, training in Spain and Portugal since &ndash; winning bronze with 2.33m.
&ldquo;Three world golds in a row is something that has never have been done before. I came here to secure that,&rdquo; said Barshim. &ldquo;Defending my Doha title and being recovered after injury are the most amazing things that could happened to me. Sometimes it&rsquo;s difficult to show jumps and technique that people like and expect to see from me. It takes so much work, dedication and passion.&rdquo;
Morocco&rsquo;s Soufiane El Bakkali maintained his supremacy in the men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase, which could best be summed up as a 400m steeplechase. The first kilometre was a complete dawdle, covered in 2:58.01, with the second kilometre not much quicker at 2:54.43.
At the bell there were still 11 men in contention in the leading pack, with reigning world champion Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya tracking Eritrea&rsquo;s Yemane Haileselassie and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Getnet Wale. Down the back straight, El Bakkali powered along the outside of the pack, the Olympic champion sweeping to the lead around the turn and showing the vast range of gears that has won him so many big races in recent years &ndash; and which has now won him a first world title.
He hit the line in 8:25.13 ahead of Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma (8:26.01) and Kipruto (8:27.92). &ldquo;I am very strong in the 400m and it worked out for me,&rdquo; said El Bakkali, who covered his last lap &ndash; over five barriers &ndash; in 57.35 seconds.
Earlier in the day, Gotytom Gebreslase made it a double victory for Ethiopia in the marathons, following in the footsteps of Tamirat Tola 24 hours earlier by taking a convincing win in the women&rsquo;s in 2:18:11. Race favourite Ruth Chepngetich, the 2019 champion, led the lead group past the 18km mark but then dropped out due to stomach problems. 
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 That carved close to three minutes off the championship record set by Paula Radcliffe in 2005, but the fate of the gold medal remained in doubt until the closing two kilometres, with the 27-year-old Ethiopian then breaking clear of Kenya&rsquo;s Judith Korir, who set a PB of 2:18:20 in second.
&ldquo;The Kenyan runner asked me to pass her, but I stayed patient,&rdquo; said Gebreslase. &ldquo;Towards 40km, I felt strong and decided to leave.&rdquo;
Israel&rsquo;s Lonah Salpeter claimed bronze in 2:20:18. Eritrea&rsquo;s Nazret Weldu was next with a national record of 2:20:29 while USA&rsquo;s Sara Hall was fifth with 2:22:10. In a race of impressive depth, athletes one to nine set the best times for their respective places in the championships&rsquo; history.
In the men&rsquo;s 200m heats, world champion Noah Lyles took a relaxed attitude to his 200m heat, waving his hand at competitors halfway down the home straight, and given those antics his time of 19.98 (-0.3m/s) was all the more impressive. It was the first ever wind-legal sub-20 in the heats of a global championships.
Chief rival Erriyon Knighton looked to be running well within himself when coasting to victory in 20.01 (2.1m/s), while Alexander Ogando of Dominican Republic broke new ground with a national record of 20.01 (0.5m/s) to win his heat.
Aminatou Seyni of Niger was quickest in the women&rsquo;s 200m heats with a national record of 21.98 (1.1m/s), beating 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (22.26). World leader Shericka Jackson ran a composed 22.33 (2.5m/s) while US champion Abby Steiner clocked 22.26 (0.9m/s).
In the women&rsquo;s discus qualification, gold medal favourite Valarie Allman had some nervous moments after fouling her first two attempts but the world leader put the crowd&rsquo;s worries to rest after launching a 68.36m effort to advance. Jorinde van Klinken of the Netherlands was next best with 65.66m.
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

On a day when the focus was on putting women in the spotlight, three of the all-time greats of female athletics turned in truly stirring performances

Rojas, Kipyegon and Thiam add to their legendary status in Oregon

Nafissatou Thiam, already a two-time Olympic gold medallist in the heptathlon, now has two world titles in her collection following her victory here at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
The Belgian star, competing in her first combined events competition of the year, was put under pressure by Dutch heptathlete Anouk Vetter and went into the final discipline with a 19-point deficit. But Thiam smashed her 800m PB by two seconds to reclaim the lead with a final score of 6947, the second-best mark of her career.
Vetter held on to take silver with 6867, smashing the Dutch record she set when earning a medal of the same colour at the Tokyo Olympics last year. USA&rsquo;s Anna Hall, meanwhile, capped a remarkable breakthrough year to take bronze with a PB of 6755, the 21-year-old moving to third on the US all-time list.
Thiam kicked off her campaign with a lifetime best of 13.21 in the 100m hurdles and followed it with a 1.95m leap in the high jump. With no one else jumping 1.90m or higher, Thiam&rsquo;s clearance was enough to move her into the overall lead.
World indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek of Poland also started well, clocking 13.28 in the 100m hurdles and clearing 1.89m in the high jump to move into second place, just ahead of Hall.
Vetter, as expected, excelled in the shot put. Following a 1.80m clearance in the high jump, she threw a lifetime best of 16.25m &ndash; more than a metre farther than second-place Thiam (15.03m) &ndash; to move from seventh to second overall. World indoor champion Noor Vidts threw a PB of 14.43m to consolidate her fourth-place standing and Sulek managed 14.13m to stay in contention.
Hall was the quickest in the final discipline of the day, winning her 200m heat in a PB of 23.08. Vetter was second-fastest overall with 23.73, her best ever clocking at a major championships, while Thiam ended her day with 24.39, her fastest 200m run within a heptathlon.
Thiam held on to her overall lead with 4071 &ndash; her best ever day-one score at a major championships. Vetter was close behind with her tally of 4010, her best ever day-one score. Hall (3991), Sulek (3982) and Vidts (3921) were all close behind in the medal hunt.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the defending champion, ended the first day in sixth, one place ahead of Olympic bronze medallist Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands.
Thiam started the second day by extending her lead, thanks to a 6.59m leap in the long jump. But Vetter continued to apply the pressure, sailing out to a lifetime best of 6.52m. Switzerland&rsquo;s Annik Kalin also performed well in this discipline, leaping 6.56m. Sulek (6.43m) and Hall (6.39m) meanwhile switched positions in the overall standings after this event, moving to third and fourth respectively.
Just as she had done with the first day&rsquo;s throwing event, Vetter impressed in the javelin. With her second throw of the competition, she sent her spear out to 58.29m &ndash; just 12 centimetres shy of her own championship best performance from 2017.
Thiam responded with a solid 53.01m, but Vetter emerged from that discipline with a 19-point lead with both women surpassing 6000 points with one discipline still to go.
Hall set a PB of 45.75m, extending her margin over Sulek in fourth. And with the 800m &ndash; arguably Hall&rsquo;s best event &ndash; still to come, the rising US star had pretty much guaranteed her place among the medals.
Thiam went into the 800m knowing that she had to finish 1.36 seconds ahead of Vetter to take the title. The Belgian all-rounder was confident of doing that too, having frequently finished a few seconds ahead of her Dutch rival in their 800m clashes over the years.
Holding back from the swift early pace set by Hall, Thiam ran a smart race and stayed comfortably ahead of Vetter throughout. While Hall held off an inspired challenge from Sulek and Vidts in the final 200 metres &ndash; much to the delight of the home crowd &ndash; Thiam crossed the line a few seconds later in 2:13.00, a PB by two seconds.
Vetter finished in 2:20.09, giving her a final score of 6867 &ndash; a 174-point improvement on her own national record and the highest ever score for a silver medal at the World Championships.
But the most remarkable improvement of the competition came from Hall, who added almost 300 points to her PB to take bronze with 6755 &ndash; also the highest ever score needed for a bronze medal at the World Championships.
Sulek finished fourth with 6672 &ndash; a mark which would have been more than enough for a medal at any of the past 17 editions of the World Championships. But she could find some consolation in the fact that she broke the long-standing Polish record of 6616 set back in 1985 by Malgorzata Nowak.
With Vidts (6559), Kalin (6464, Swiss record) and Oosterwegel (6440) taking the next three places, it was the best depth competition ever at the World Championships. Johnson-Thompson finished eighth with a season&rsquo;s best of 6222.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968; height: 22px;">Nafissatou Thiam 🇧🇪 BEL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968; height: 22px;">6947 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9; height: 22px;">Anouk Vetter 🇳🇱 NED</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9; height: 22px;">6867 NR</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e; height: 22px;">Anna Hall 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e; height: 22px;">6755 PB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left; height: 22px;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/women/heptathlon/800-metres/points" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Double Olympic champion is now a two-time world champion

Thiam regains world heptathlon title in Oregon

<h2>Women's heptathlon</h2>
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/timetable/bydiscipline/women/heptathlon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timetable</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/world-rankings/heptathlon/women?regionType=world&amp;page=1&amp;rankDate=2022-06-26&amp;limitByCountry=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world rankings</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/records/toplists/combined-events/heptathlon/outdoor/women/senior/2022?regionType=world&amp;windReading=regular&amp;page=1&amp;bestResultsOnly=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 world list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/combined-events/heptathlon/outdoor/women/senior?regionType=world&amp;windReading=regular&amp;page=1&amp;bestResultsOnly=true&amp;firstDay=1900-01-01&amp;lastDay=2022-07-06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world all-time list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/disciplines/combined-events/heptathlon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how it works</a>
Last year she won her second Olympic gold medal, and now Belgium&rsquo;s Nafi Thiam will be aiming to win world title No.2 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Ever since winning Olympic gold in 2016, the 27-year-old has established herself as the leading heptathlete of her generation, winning the world title in 2017, European gold in 2018 and scoring a lifetime best of 7013.
Each time she has won a major title, her winning score has been in the region of 6800 points. The only slight blemish on her record &ndash; if you can even refer to a silver medal in such a way &ndash; is her runner-up finish at the 2019 World Championships, where Katarina Johnson-Thompson triumphed with 6981 &ndash; the best score at a World Championships since 2007.
Of the two global champions, Thiam has shown the best form this year. She hasn&rsquo;t contested a heptathlon, but she won the long jump at the Belgian Championships with 6.63m and placed second in the 100m hurdles in 13.50. She has also equalled her 200m PB of 24.37.
While her high jump season&rsquo;s best of 1.92m is some way short of her world heptathlon best of 2.02m, she may not need to rely on that discipline to bank extra points should all go to plan in the other events.
Throws have been a minor concern for Thiam in recent years as she has tried to manage a niggling elbow injury, so she tends not to contest throwing events outside of heptathlons. Even so, she is usually capable of throwing about 15 metres in the shot and beyond 50 metres in the javelin, which are marks few other heptathletes are able to match.
Johnson-Thompson, meanwhile, has had an up-and-down year. She made a last-minute decision to compete at the World Indoor Championships but withdrew before the final discipline. She went on to compete at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis, where she finished seventh with 6174. Following that, she changed her coaching set-up and moved from the US back to the UK.
If anyone has shown the kind of form needed to challenge Thiam this year, it&rsquo;s Anouk Vetter. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/604de001465d71048d8137a8.jpg" alt="Anouk Vetter in the heptathlon 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019" />
Anouk Vetter in the heptathlon 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 (&copy; Gladys Chai von der Laage)
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The Olympic silver medallist won at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis with a world-leading Dutch record of 6693. Her series included a 59.81m PB in the javelin &ndash; the longest ever throw within a 6000pt+ heptathlon.
Vetter and Thiam are evenly matched in the throws and 800m. Vetter is slightly quicker in the sprints and hurdles, while Thiam is better in the jumps.
The host nation&rsquo;s hopes rest with Anna Hall and Kendell Williams. Hall, still only 21, is undefeated in combined events competitions this year, though has competed exclusively in the US and mainly just on the collegiate circuit. She set a pentathlon PB of 4618 indoors, then scored heptathlon PBs of 6412 and 6458 outdoors, the latter when winning the US title. She followed that with victory at the NCAA Championships.
A solid all-rounder, Hall fares best in running events, so look out for her to finish with a flourish with the 200m on day one and the 800m on day two.
Williams, meanwhile, claimed her first senior global medal earlier this year when taking bronze at the World Indoor Championships. Fifth at last year&rsquo;s Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships, Williams will be keen to fare better at Hayward Field &ndash; a place that holds fond memories for the 27-year-old as it&rsquo;s where she claimed world U20 gold in the 100m hurdles back in 2014, as well as her three NCAA heptathlon titles in 2014, 2016 and 2017.
Noor Vidts and Adrianna Sulek claimed the top two places at the World Indoor Championships in an enthralling duel that went down to the wire. Vidts, who hasn&rsquo;t completed a heptathlon outdoors this year, had some mixed results earlier in the season but the Belgian showed glimmers of promise with a 13.33 clocking in the 100m hurdles earlier this month.
Sulek, meanwhile, is showing the kind of form that suggests she could be a medal contender. The 23-year-old Pole won in Bydgoszcz with 6290, then finished second in G&ouml;tzis with a PB of 6429. She came within six points of that mark to win the Polish title last month. Throughout the season, she has set PBs in five of the individual seven heptathlon disciplines.
Several other women will also be in contention at various points throughout the two days of competition, so look out for Olympic bronze medallist Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands, Austria&rsquo;s 2018 world indoor silver medallist Ivona Dadic, Hungary&rsquo;s 2021 G&ouml;tzis winner Xenia Krizsan, Multistars winner and Swiss record-holder Annik Kalin, and Ratingen winner Sophie Weissenberg of Germany.
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<h2>Men's decathlon</h2>
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/timetable/bydiscipline/men/decathlon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timetable</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/world-rankings/decathlon/men?regionType=world&amp;page=1&amp;rankDate=2022-06-26&amp;limitByCountry=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world rankings</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/records/toplists/combined-events/decathlon/outdoor/men/senior/2022?regionType=world&amp;windReading=regular&amp;page=1&amp;bestResultsOnly=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 world list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/combined-events/decathlon/outdoor/men/senior?regionType=world&amp;windReading=regular&amp;page=1&amp;bestResultsOnly=true&amp;firstDay=1900-01-01&amp;lastDay=2022-07-06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world all-time list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/disciplines/combined-events/decathlon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how it works</a>
This time last year, Damian Warner was the journeyman of the decathlon.
The Canadian all-rounder had stood on the podium at the World Championships, Olympic Games and World Indoor Championships, but a global title had eluded him.
A lot can happen in 12 months, though. Fast forward to 2022 and Warner is now an Olympic gold medallist, a world indoor champion, and a member of the 9000-point club. Nine years after winning his first global medal, the 32-year-old is hitting peak form &ndash; and he shows no signs of slowing down.
He won the world indoor title earlier this year with a Canadian record of 6489, moving him to second on the world indoor all-time list. Outdoors, he won the decathlon at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis for a record seventh time with 8797, the third-best score of his career.
What makes Warner such a formidable opponent is his dependability and consistency in an event where any number of things could go wrong. He often performs near or at his best in every discipline and rarely suffers a mid-competition disaster.
In fact, the last time he was beaten in a combined events competition was at the 2019 World Championships where illness meant he wasn&rsquo;t at his best, but despite that rare off-day he still held on to take bronze behind surprise winner Niklas Kaul of Germany.
Kaul will defend his world title in Eugene, though he&rsquo;s not quite in the same form that carried the then 21-year-old to an 8691 victory in Doha. He has, however, proven himself to be a strong championship performer so far in his burgeoning career, and as a strong day-two performer, he&rsquo;ll have the benefit of flying under the radar for the first day.
If anyone has the talent and ability to stop Warner and prevent Kaul from retaining his title, it&rsquo;s Kevin Mayer. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/514a7c12-1a04-4405-bb85-2d802879525d.jpg" alt="Kevin Mayer after throwing a lifetime decathlon best in the shot put at the IAAF World Championships Doha 2019" />
Kevin Mayer after throwing a lifetime decathlon best in the shot put at the World Championships Doha 2019 (&copy; Getty Images)
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The world record-holder, who preceded Kaul as world champion, took silver behind Warner at the Olympics last year. Unlike Warner, Mayer&rsquo;s combined events record is littered with many DNFs; some of them are competitions where he had no intention of finishing anyway, while others were on a grander stage, such as the 2019 World Championships and 2018 European Championships.
When he is fit and focused, though, Mayer is a medal threat. Not counting those blips in 2019 and 2018, he has made it on to the podium at all the major championships he has contested from 2014 onwards. And although he hasn&rsquo;t completed a combined events competition this year, he has showed solid form in individual disciplines.
But beyond these three winners of global titles, there are many more medal contenders heading to Oregon.
Australia&rsquo;s Ashley Moloney took a surprise bronze at the Olympics last year, setting an Oceanian record of 8649. He hasn&rsquo;t competed at all outdoors this year, but lack of competition didn&rsquo;t seem to affect him at this year&rsquo;s World Indoor Championships where &ndash; despite having never competed indoors before &ndash; he took bronze with an area record of 6344.
USA&rsquo;s Kyle Garland is even younger than Moloney and Kaul, but already has a superior PB. The 22-year-old added more than 500 points to his PB at the US Championships earlier this year with 8720 in a series that showed few weaknesses. A strong jumper, thrower and hurdler, Garland will also benefit from home crowd support.
He was beaten, however, at the NCAA Championships, where Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Ayden Owens-Delerme triumphed with 8457, having set a national record of 8528 earlier in the season. Owens-Delerme, who was born on the exact same day as Garland, will likely bank most of his points in the running events, given his range includes a 10.27 PB for 100m, a 46.10 PB for 400m and a 4:13.17 best for 1500m.
Canada&rsquo;s Pierce LePage, fifth at last year&rsquo;s Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships, withdrew from the Hypo Meeting in May after two disciplines, but was back in action at the recent Canadian Championships, showing strong form in the 110m hurdles and discus.
Estonia always fields a strong line-up in the decathlon and this year is no different. World silver medallist Maicel Uibo features on their team for Oregon, though Janek Oiglane is the nation&rsquo;s top scorer this year, having set a PB of 8405. He was sixth in Doha and fourth at the 2017 World Championships, so will be keen to make it on to the podium this time. Johannes Erm, the 2019 NCAA champion, rounds out the Estonian team.
USA&rsquo;s Zach Ziemek, Australia&rsquo;s Cedric Dubler, Grenada&rsquo;s Lindon Victor and Germany&rsquo;s Kai Kazmirek are all experienced championship performers and likely will feature high up on the leader board at various stages throughout the two days of competition on 23 and 24 July.
And in homage to two-time Olympic champion and former world record-holder Ashton Eaton, who studied at the University of Oregon and spent many years training at Eugene&rsquo;s Hayward Field, the men&rsquo;s decathlon 1500m will be the final individual track event of the championships.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Expected highlights in the heptathlon and decathlon

WCH Oregon22 preview: combined events

USA's Chari Hawkins and Sweden's Marcus Nilsson captured respective victories at the Meeting Internacional Arona Pruebas Combinadas Tenerife, the Spanish leg of the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold, held this weekend (4-5 June).
Hawkins&rsquo; overnight lead became even more significant after her close rival Naimh Emerson withdrew following the long jump, and she went on to win with a PB of 6243. Nilsson, meanwhile, cemented his win after an expected strong second day, scoring 8115.
The heptathlon kicked off with a clash in the 100m hurdles between Solene Ndama of France and USA's Hawkins, with the former prevailing &ndash; 13.24 to 13.30. Hawkins' compatriot Ashtin Zamzow-Mahler finished a distant third in 13.52.
Still rounding into form, Emerson managed a season's best of 14.23 for sixth but the 23-year-old proved to be the strongest in one of her favourite events, the high jump, sailing over 1.85m after a perfect card from 1.73m to 1.82m.
Hawkins, after a scare at 1.76m that saw her clear the bar at the third time of asking, managed a 1.85m PB to move into the overall lead ahead of Emerson and Claudia Conte of Spain.
The 2018 world U20 champion Emerson also took the shot put, opening with a 13.38m effort before improving her lifetime best by 17 centimetres to 13.82m. Hawkins was a close third courtesy of a 13.67m heave to comfortably maintain her lead, with Marijke Esselink of the Netherlands sandwiched between them (13.72m).
Hawkins strengthened her lead with a victory in the closing 200m, recording 24.69 clearly ahead of Emerson's 25.06, although Esselink took the previous heat in 24.79. At the end of day one Hawkins was a comfortable leader, 158 points ahead of Emerson, herself four points clear of Esselink.
In Sunday's first event, Conte overcame a foul and a botched attempt to land at 6.18m in the last round of the long jump. Hawkins and Emerson had to be satisfied with respective leaps of 5.98m and 5.93m, the Briton being narrowly surpassed by the Dutch Esserlink and threatened by Conte in the overall rankings.
A flare-up of a hamstring problem meant that Emerson withdrew from the competition before the javelin. Hawkins managed 42.88m, which was enough to maintain a comfortable 142-point lead over Conte, who threw 44.70m. Uzbekistan&rsquo;s Ekaterina Voronina moved up the standings thank to her 50.45m release.
Conte went out hard in the 800m, passing through the first lap in 1:02.70, but faded to second in 2:11.58. Hawkins was further back in 2:16.66, ending the competition with a winning score of 6243.
Conte finished second with 6174, while Esselink (6087) and Voronina (6072) were third and fourth respectively.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve loved it,&rdquo; Hawkins told DecathletesOfEurope. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s something special about the weather, the environment, the music, the people &ndash; it was really electric. I came in so focused and I was really glad I was able to do what I needed to do today.&rdquo;
<h2>Nilsson bounces back</h2>
In the decathlon, Brazil&rsquo;s Felipe Dos Santos confirmed his role as the strongest athlete in the opening events with victories in the 100m (10.64) and the long jump (7.33m).
Germany's Jannis Wolf took the runner-up place in the 100m (10.83), while Italy's Dario Dester came third in 10.93. Nilsson, meanwhile, was further down the standings in 13th overall with 11.43.
Dester climbed into second place overall after long jumping 7.29m, but Nilsson dropped further with a best of just 6.83m, almost half a metre down on his PB.
A 15.37m heave in the shot put from Nilsson put the Swede back in the frame, moving him up to ninth overall. He was still almost 200 points shy of leader Dos Santos, though, who managed 13.60m. Dester held on to second place after throwing 13.58m.
Dos Santos maintained the lead after clearing 1.98m in the high jump. Venezuela&rsquo;s Gerson Izaguirre matched that height and overtook Dester to move into second. Nilsson, meanwhile, also cleared 1.98m and climbed up to sixth place overall.
Dos Santos finally surrendered his lead in the final discipline of the day as Dester cruised to a lifetime best of 47.70 in the 400m, elevating the Italian up to first place overall with 4144 points at the half-way stage. Dos Santos and Izaguirre also surpassed 4000 points at the end of day one, while Nilsson held on to sixth place with 3931.
Izaguirre achieved his first individual discipline win in the opening event of the second day. The Venezuelan topped the 110m hurdles in 14.21, just 0.01 ahead of Dos Santos with Dester in third (14.43), just enough to hold on to the lead. Nilsson was further back in 14.73.
The Swede, just as he had done in the shot put on day one, clawed back even more points in the discus with his 47.61m heave being almost four metres farther than the next-best athlete in that event. Dos Santos reclaimed the lead after throwing 40.33m, but Dester, Izaguirre and Nilsson were all within 100 points of the Brazilian.
Nilsson, very much a &lsquo;second day&rsquo; performer, excelled in the pole vault and equalled his PB of 5.10m, taking the overall lead from Dos Santos, who managed 4.70m. Dester (4.80m) and Izaguirre (4.90m) also remained in contention with just 41 points separating the quartet going into the last two disciplines.
Confirming his status as the strongest all-round thrower in the field, Nilsson took the javelin with 59.28m to extend his lead. Dester (56.61m) and Dos Santos (56.02m) were relatively close behind, while Izaguirre managed 53.65m.
By this point, Nilsson &ndash; the 2010 world U20 bronze medallist &ndash; knew he had a good chance of winning as he was the strongest 1500m runner of the field. His target became improving on his PB of 8120, for which he would need a 4:19.32 clocking in the 1500m.
He went out hard and fell agonisingly short, but his 4:19.83 run was still enough to win with a score of 8115.
Dester finished in 4:39.70, giving him a score of 7903 for second place, while Izaguirre took third place with 7812.
Emeterio Valiente for World Athletics

Chari Hawkins takes heptathlon with 6243, Marcus Nilsson wins decathlon with 8115

Hawkins and Nilsson triumph in Arona

Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner achieved a record seventh victory at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis while Olympic silver medallist Anouk Vetter became the first Dutch winner at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting on Sunday (29).
Warner trailed rising Swiss star Simon Ehammer on the first day as the world indoor silver medallist sailed out to a world decathlon best of 8.45m in the long jump. But Warner regained the lead at the start of day two and held on to the end, winning with 8797.
Vetter also only moved into the lead on Sunday as she chased world indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek for most of the two-day competition. But a meeting record of 59.81m in the javelin gave Vetter an unassailable lead ahead of the final discipline and she eventually won with 6693.
On the hunt for yet another G&ouml;tzis victory, Warner got his campaign off to a strong start with a 10.14 run, missing his 100m PB and own world decathlon best set in the same town in 2019 by 0.02. Ehammer also showed he meant business with a 10.46 PB, while Canada&rsquo;s Pierce LePage ran 10.35.
Next up was the long jump &ndash; Ehammer&rsquo;s time to shine. Just three weeks earlier, the 22-year-old had jumped 8.30m in Ratingen, improving the 8.28m world decathlon best that Warner set en route to his victory in G&ouml;tzis last year. It also broke the Swiss long jump record that had stood for almost 20 years and helped him on his way to a 8354-point national decathlon record.
Adding 15 centimetres to that mark, Ehammer achieved the best long jump in the world so far this season in the very first round and his delight was clear as he jumped out of the pit and started celebrating. That result launched him into the lead after two events and it was an advantage he wouldn&rsquo;t relinquish on day one.
Warner achieved the next best long jump mark of 7.93m and Estonia&rsquo;s Hans-Christian Hausenberg leapt 7.85m. LePage managed 7.49m but took no further part in the competition. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/629272f983337e439b66a048.jpg" alt="Simon Ehammer celebrates his 8.45m long jump in G&ouml;tzis" />
Simon Ehammer celebrates his 8.45m long jump in G&ouml;tzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Victor was strongest in the shot and wasn&rsquo;t too far off his PB with 16.28m as the only athlete to surpass 16 metres. Warner closed the gap on the leader with a 14.92m put to Ehammer&rsquo;s 14.42m.
USA&rsquo;s Hunter Price, making his G&ouml;tzis debut, cleared 2.09m to top the high jump results ahead of Estonia&rsquo;s world silver medallist Maicel Uibo (2.06m), as Warner and Ehammer both managed 2.03m.
Netherlands&rsquo; Rik Taam then stormed to a 400m PB of 47.28 and Warner powered to a time of 47.92. Ehammer&rsquo;s 48.44 saw him hold on to top spot overnight, but only just.
Warner finally regained his lead in the first event of the second day, though the gap between him and Ehammer in the 110m hurdles wasn&rsquo;t too significant, 13.48 to 13.75. Ehammer&rsquo;s Swiss teammate Finley Gaio was close behind with 13.86, enough to move up to third overall.
Warner extended his leading margin in the discus as his 48.24m effort was more than 10 metres farther than Ehammer&rsquo;s best (36.98m). But the big story in this event was Lindon Victor&rsquo;s monster heave of 54.85m &ndash; just 30 centimetres shy of the long-standing meeting record &ndash; which moved the Grenadian up to third overall. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/629390aac4732703b35c4275.jpg" alt="Damian Warner in the decathlon discus in Gotzis" />
Damian Warner in the decathlon discus in Gotzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Somewhat surprisingly for a decathlon pole vault competition, the positions of the top six athletes remained the same after the eighth discipline, though the margins changed slightly.
Warner and Ehammer equalled their respective PBs of 4.90m and 5.10m to remain in first and second place. Victor&rsquo;s 4.70m was enough to hold on to third, while Kazmirek &ndash; showing his best form for quite some time &ndash; scaled 5.00m to consolidate his fourth place position ahead of Gaio and Rik Taam. A 5.30m vault from world silver medallist Maicel Uibo, meanwhile, elevated the Estonian from 11th to seventh overall.
Heavy rain and hail started to fall before the javelin, but the conditions didn&rsquo;t seem to affect the performances. World champion Niklas Kaul topped the event with a season&rsquo;s best of 69.29m, moving him into the top five overall for the first time in the competition.
Warner held on to his comfortable lead thanks to a throw of 58.62m, giving him an overall tally of 8108 and a leading margin of 243 points with one discipline still to go. Ehammer set a PB of 55.98m, just enough to hold on to second place overall from Lindon Victor, whose 63.93m throw put him just seven points adrift of Ehammer overall.
Kaul, determined to put in a strong showing after aborting his past three decathlons, took on the leading duties in the 1500m and got progressively quicker en route to a 4:16.31 clocking. Further back, Warner cruised around in 4:38.65 to end the competition with a winning score of 8797, the third-best mark of his career.
At the back of the pack, Victor and Ehammer were locked in their own battle for second place. Victor held on for a 4:55.00 run while a struggling Ehammer finished in 5:08.51. It meant Victor took second place overall with 8447 and Ehammer placed third with a Swiss record of 8377.
Kaul&rsquo;s heroic run in the 1500m moved the German up to fourth overall with 8303, his best score since winning the world title in 2019. Kazmirek was close behind with 8272, also his best mark since 2019. Taam, meanwhile, added more than 100 points to his PB to place sixth with 8246.
<h2>Vetter betters Dutch record</h2>
World indoor bronze medallist Kendell Williams blasted to an early lead in the heptathlon, clocking 13.13 in the 100m hurdles as Vetter ran 13.28 and Sulek 13.61.
Sulek has improved her high jump PB indoors and out this year and she went higher still in G&ouml;tzis, clearing 1.92m on her third attempt after seven first-time clearances from 1.71m to 1.89m to get to that point. That performance took her into the lead overall, followed by Williams who was among three athletes to achieve a 1.80m clearance. Estonia&rsquo;s Liisa-Maria Lusti got closest to Sulek with a 1.86m PB. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62927319c51932482ad50522.jpg" alt="Adrianna Sulek in action in G&ouml;tzis" />
Adrianna Sulek in action in G&ouml;tzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Benin&rsquo;s Odile Ahouanwanou launched the shot 15.27m to top that event, while Germany&rsquo;s Vanessa Grimm recorded 14.96m, Vetter 14.88m and Finland&rsquo;s world U20 champion Saga Vanninen 14.58m. Sulek improved her PB to 13.79m and held on to her overall lead, with Vetter in second and Ahouanwanou moving up into third.
Another PB followed for Sulek as she ran 23.86 in the 200m to end the day with 3940 points. Britain&rsquo;s two-time G&ouml;tzis winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson, looking to complete her first full heptathlon since her World Championships victory in Doha in 2019, clocked the fastest time of 23.51, while Germany&rsquo;s Sophie Weissenberg recorded a PB of 23.67.
Vetter&rsquo;s 23.76 and Williams&rsquo; 23.77 secured them second and third place respectively overnight.
Vetter and Williams started the second day strongly, both leaping seasons bests of 6.47m in the long jump to close the gap on Sulek, who managed 6.28m.
But the tables turned in the javelin. Vetter opened with 47.14m, which would have been sufficient to overtake Sulek, whose opening throw of 38.66m remained her best of the day. But the Dutch all-rounder improved to 51.39m in round two and then a sensational 59.81m in round three, breaking Nafi Thiam&rsquo;s meeting record by almost half a metre. It&rsquo;s also the best ever throw within a 6000-point heptathlon.
Latvia&rsquo;s Laura Ikauniece (53.93m) and Emma Oosterwegel (52.53m) were the only other athletes to throw beyond 50 metres.
It meant that Vetter went into the 800m with a 372-point lead, essentially meaning the title was hers to lose. Competing in heavy rain and hail, Sulek won the fourth and final heat of the 800m in 2:13.80, but Vetter&rsquo;s 2:21.56 clocking sealed the crown with a score of 6693, adding four points to the Dutch record she set in Tokyo last year. Sulek was rewarded with a PB of 6429.
Grimm continued to put in a consistent series throughout the second day and emerged in third place with a PB of 6323, 22 points ahead of Multistars winner Annik Kalin. Johnson-Thompson finished down in seventh place with 6174, behind Oosterwegel (6265) and Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills (6260).
<h3>Leading results</h3>
Heptathlon 1 Anouk Vetter (NED) 6693 2 Adrianna Sulek (POL) 6429 3 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 6323 4 Annik Kalin (SUI) 6301 5 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 6265 6 Holly Mills (GBR) 6260 7 Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) 6174 8 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 6173
Decathlon 1 Damian Warner (CAN) 8797 2 Lindon Victor (GRN) 8447 3 Simon Ehammer (SUI) 8377 4 Niklas Kaul (GER) 8303 5 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 8272 6 Rik Taam (NED) 8246 7 Maicel Uibo (EST) 8067 8 Hunter Price (USA) 7996

Warner scores 8797, Vetter breaks Dutch record with 6693

Warner wins again, Vetter victorious in Götzis

Damian Warner may have earned the biggest accolade in the sport with his Olympic decathlon title last year, but his reign as king of combined events began long before that with his historic streak of victories at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis.
The Canadian all-rounder will return to the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting this weekend (28-29) in pursuit of a record-extending seventh victory. He&rsquo;ll take on a strong field that includes world champion Niklas Kaul and rising Swiss star Simon Ehammer, who pushed Warner all the way at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 earlier this year.
World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, meanwhile, leads the heptathlon field. The Briton faces Olympic silver medallist Anouk Vetter, world indoor bronze medallist Kendell Williams and the returning Laura Ikauniece, among others.
Warner will be contesting his first decathlon of the year, but the vastly experienced 32-year-old rarely shows any sign of early season rust. He went into the World Indoor Championships off the back of just one low-key hurdles race, yet emerged from Belgrade with the gold medal and a national record of 6489, elevating him to No.2 on the world indoor all-time list.
He opened his outdoor season last month with a 49.07m throw in the discus, one of the best marks of his career, and a wind-assisted 20.63 run over 200m, which suggests his form is as good as it has been in the past 12 months &ndash; the same form that carried him to a 8995 victory in G&ouml;tzis last year and a 9018 triumph at the Olympics, making him just the fourth man in history to surpass 9000 points in the decathlon.
There may not be anyone else in the field who can match that overall score, but there are several athletes who&rsquo;ll push Warner in each individual discipline. Ehammer, for example, broke Warner&rsquo;s world decathlon best in the long jump earlier this month, soaring out to 8.30m en route to his triumph in Ratingen. The 22-year-old is also a strong sprint hurdler, so will likely be close to Warner in that discipline too. And the strong line-up in G&ouml;tzis could be just what Ehammer needs to improve on his recent Swiss decathlon record of 8354.
Kaul hasn&rsquo;t quite regained the form he showed when winning the world title in 2019 with 8691, but the 24-year-old has come relatively close to his PBs in the 110m hurdles, pole vault and long jump so far this year. Given the strength of the field, this is about as good a test as he&rsquo;ll get ahead of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
His German compatriots Arthur Abele and Kai Kazmirek are very much in the same boat when it comes to trying to recapture their best form. Abele, the European champion, last completed a decathlon back in September 2018. Kazmirek didn&rsquo;t finish in Ratingen earlier this month or at the World Indoor Championships, but he was seventh in G&ouml;tzis last year and went on to place 14th at the Olympics.
Warner&rsquo;s strongest opposition this weekend could come from his fellow Canadian Pierce LePage. The 26-year-old placed fifth at the 2019 World Championships and at last year&rsquo;s Olympics, scoring a PB of 8604. LePage, who finished second to Warner in G&ouml;tzis last year, set a discus PB of 51.38m last month and an indoor shot put PB of 15.81m earlier in the year, so appears to be in top form.
World silver medallist Maicel Uibo of Estonia and Lindon Victor of Grenada, both vastly experienced and formidable competitors, should also be in the mix this weekend. Meanwhile, world U20 champion Frantisek Doubek of the Czech Republic will contest his first decathlon since becoming a senior athlete.
A lot has happened since Johnson-Thompson won her second Hypo-Meeting title in 2019.
The Briton won the world title a few months later, battled injuries for much of 2020 and 2021 but made it to the startline of the Olympic heptathlon in Tokyo and was competitive in the first three events, only for another injury to strike at the mid-way point of the competition, forcing her to withdraw. Since then, she has also relocated to the US to join a new training group.
She accepted a wildcard invitation to compete at the World Indoor Championships but ultimately wasn&rsquo;t quite at a point where she was competitive and so withdrew before the 800m. Her early season results outdoors have been a bit more promising, including a wind-assisted 6.41m leap at the recent Wanda Diamond League meeting in Birmingham.
This weekend the 29-year-old hopes to achieve her first completed heptathlon since her World Championships victory almost three years ago, and she&rsquo;ll face a strong field.
Dutch duo Anouk Vetter and Emma Oosterwegel will be formidable opponents. Vetter, the Olympic silver medallist, has shown strong form in individual disciplines already this year, including wind-assisted marks of 13.16 in the 100m hurdles and 6.58m in the long jump, plus a 15.24m throw in the shot put.
Olympic bronze medallist Oosterwegel, meanwhile, ran a wind-assisted 13.44 in the 100m hurdles and threw well beyond 50 metres in the javelin last weekend. No Dutch athlete has ever won in G&ouml;tzis, but there&rsquo;s a chance that drought could end this weekend.
Ikauniece will also be one to watch. The 2015 world bronze medallist finished second to Johnson-Thompson in G&ouml;tzis in 2019 but was then forced to withdraw from the World Championships due to injury. She hasn&rsquo;t started a heptathlon since June 2019, but she returned to competition this year and recently threw 13.90m in the shot and 52.14m in the javelin, suggesting she&rsquo;s in good form ahead of this weekend.
Cuba&rsquo;s Yorgelis Rodriguez, like Johnson-Thompson, also crashed out of the Olympic Games last year, but she&rsquo;s usually a strong opponent in any heptathlon.
Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek and USA&rsquo;s Kendell Williams, the world indoor silver and bronze medallists respectively, will also be in action this weekend. Sulek recently won in Bydgoszcz with 6290 but she hopes to get closer to &ndash; or even beyond &ndash; the World Championships qualifying standard of 6420 this weekend. Williams, as the winner of the 2021 Combined Events Tour, has already got a wildcard entry for the World Championships.
Others to look out for include recent Multistars winner Annik Kalin of Switzerland, world U20 champion Saga Vanninen of Finland, Ireland&rsquo;s Kate O&rsquo;Connor and Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills.
<h3>Leading entries</h3>
Women Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) 6981 Laura Ikauniece (LAT) 6815 Yorgelis Rodriguez (CUB) 6742 Anouk Vetter (NED) 6689 Kendell Williams (USA) 6683 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 6590 Annik Kalin (SUI) 6398 Ekaterina Voronina (UZB) 6346 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 6316 Adrianna Sulek (POL) 6315 Kate O&rsquo;Connor (IRL) 6297 Sophie Weissenberg (GER) 6293 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 6274 Saga Vanninen (FIN) 6271
Men Damian Warner (CAN) 9018 Niklas Kaul (GER) 8691 Arthur Abele (GER) 8605 Pierce LePage (CAN) 8604 Maicel Uibo (EST) 8604 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 8580 Lindon Victor (GRN) 8539 Simon Ehammer (SUI) 8354 Pawel Wiesiolek (POL) 8333 Tim Nowak (GER) 8229 Niels Pittomvils (BEL) 8222 Joseph Delgado (USA) 8161 Risto Lillemets (EST) 8156 Rik Taam (NED) 8107

Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner and world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson lead the competitive fields

Warner seeks seventh victory, while Johnson-Thompson returns to Götzis

World indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek led the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial heptathlon from start to finish while Czech decathlon champion Ondrej Kopecky broke the 8000-point barrier for the first time at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in Bydgoszcz on Sunday (15).
Sulek&rsquo;s winning score of 6290 was just 25 points shy of her lifetime best. Kopecky, meanwhile, gave himself an early birthday present &ndash; he turned 24 the day after the competition &ndash; and added more than 400 points to his PB with his 8041 tally.
Sulek was the only heptathlete to dip inside 14 seconds in the 100m hurdles, opening her account with 13.70. An outdoor PB of 1.87m in the high jump increased her lead over Dorota Skrivanova of the Czech Republic.
The Pole came within one centimetre of her PB in the shot put (13.20m) and rounded out her first day with a 24.34 clocking in the 200m, giving her a leading score of 3777, more than 250 points ahead of Skrivanova, who was just ahead of Sulek in the 200m (24.32).
Skrivanova &ndash; who finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade &ndash; topped the long jump with a leap of 6.24m, while Sulek managed 6.14m. But Sulek increased her lead in the javelin, throwing 40.37m to Skrivanova&rsquo;s 32.91m.
Poland&rsquo;s Edyta Bielska dominated the 800m and ran 2:07.48, with Skrivanova (2:10.29) and Sulek (2:11.25) relatively close behind. Sulek&rsquo;s clocking brought her winning tally to 6290, while Skrivanova was rewarded with a PB of 5926.
&ldquo;Were it not for the fact that this was the Wieslaw Czapiewski Memorial, I would have run the 800m in about 2:15, just enough to hold on to victory, but since this competition is in memorial of my former coach, there was no room for poor results,&rdquo; said Sulek, who was coached by Czapiewski up until his death in 2019. &ldquo;I decided to run my lungs out and fight in the 800m. My score may have been just short of my PB, but I know that I gave 100% today. And in the near future I&rsquo;ll be faster and stronger.&rdquo;
Kopecky got off to a strong start in the decathlon, winning the 100m in 11.06 and the long jump with a PB of 7.47m. Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek (14.85m) and Lithuania&rsquo;s Edgaras Benkunskas (14.64m) applied pressure in the shot put, but Kopecky&rsquo;s 13.46m heave was enough for the Czech all-rounder to maintain his lead.
Wiesiolek took no further part in the competition, but Benkunskas took the lead after clearing 2.04m in the high jump. Kopecky managed 1.89m but rebounded in the 400m with a big PB of 48.54, giving him a first-day score of 4057, 66 points ahead of Benkunskas.
The lead duo were close in the first event of the second day, Benkunskas winning the 110m hurdles from Kopecky, 14.32 to 14.35. But Kopecky pulled ahead in the discus (44.06m) and pole vault (5.10m).
Benkunskas gained a bit of ground in the javelin, throwing 61.11m to Kopecky&rsquo;s 57.86m, but the Czech leader had a comfortable lead going into the 1500m and duly won that event in 4:43.42, gaining the overall victory with 8041. Benkunskas finished second with 7689.

Sulek scores 6290, Kopecky sets big PB of 8041

Sulek and Kopecky dominate in Bydgoszcz

Results including a world decathlon best of 8.30m in the long jump helped Simon Ehammer on his way to a Swiss record of 8354 points, while Sophie Wiessenberg maintained her lead to win the heptathlon ahead of her German compatriot Carolin Schafer at the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting this weekend (7-8).
On the first day of the World Athletics Combined Events Gold fixture, Ehammer returned to competition for the first time since taking world indoor silver in Belgrade and broke the Swiss long jump record that had stood for almost 20 years, giving the 22-year-old a lead that he would not relinquish.
His competition had started with a 10.65 run in the 100m &ndash; the fastest of the day &ndash; before he followed it with his record-breaking leap.
On a day when most other jumpers struggled to produce big marks &ndash; the next-best athlete, Malik Diakite, jumped 7.35m &ndash; Ehammer improved with each round, opening with 7.69m, improving to 7.97m and then finishing with his mammoth effort.
Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner owned the previous world decathlon best with the 8.28m he jumped en route to his victory in G&ouml;tzis last year. 
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 Another meeting record fell in the next event, this time thanks to Nico Beckers, who heaved his shot out to a lifetime best of 16.63m. Overall leader Ehammer threw an outdoor PB of 14.68m, but world champion Niklas Kaul and 2017 world bronze medallist Kai Kazmirek &ndash; as had been the case in the first two disciplines &ndash; finished further down the field, throwing 13.73m and 13.78m respectively, some way off their best form.
German champion Tim Nowak moved up the field after the high jump, thanks to his outdoor PB clearance of 2.07m. Ehammer was close behind, scaling 2.04m to maintain his overall lead.
In the 400m, the final decathlon discipline of the first day, Kaul and Kazmirek took a few strides out of their blocks once the gun had fired but then stepped off the track. Kaul later explained that he had a headache and felt dizzy.
Ehammer clocked a solid 48.30 to bring his score to 4583 &ndash; 125 points up on the pace from his 8231 PB score from two years ago. Germany&rsquo;s Malik Diakite uncorked a huge PB of 46.76 in the 400m to break the meeting record.
Beckers finished the first day in second place overall with 4320, some 263 points adrift, while Marcel Meyer was third with 4111.
Ehammer picked up from where he left off at the start of day two, going quickest by a big margin in the 110m hurdles with 13.75.
Sweden&rsquo;s Marcus Nilsson was the dominant force in the discus, throwing 46.88m for a mark more than two metres further than any of his rivals. Another PB performance helped Ehammer to maintain his lead, the Swiss rising star throwing 39.13m to add almost three metres to his previous best.
Ehammer was then among the three athletes to soar clear at 5.00m in the pole vault, with Nowak matching his outdoor PB and Nilsson also managing the height. The leader remained on target for a Swiss record, with two events to go.
Germany&rsquo;s Jan Ruhrmann was a class apart in the javelin, adding three metres to his PB with 66.75m, as Ehammer threw 53.01m.
As they lined up for the 1500m, the Swiss record and a qualifying score for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 remained in reach for the leader. Running 4:57.55, Ehammer crossed the finish line victorious &ndash; improving the Swiss record by more than 100 points and surpassing the standard for Oregon by four points.
Nilsson ended his strong second day with the fastest time of 4:20.02 and moved up a place into fourth (7927) behind Ehammer, Nowak (8160) and Beckers (7940).
&ldquo;Those were two incredibly beautiful days,&rdquo; said Ehammer. &ldquo;A great start to the season in a great atmosphere. The long jump was of course the best &ndash; I didn't think I could jump 8.30m at such an early stage.
&ldquo;It was my first decathlon since 2020, so of course it's awesome to start with a Swiss record and World Championships standard.&rdquo;
He will next compete in G&ouml;tzis later this month.
&ldquo;I know that I can do even more in all disciplines and that I want more."
<h2>Weissenberg reigns in&nbsp;Ratingen</h2>
In the heptathlon, 2019 European U23 silver medallist Weissenberg held a narrow lead overnight but with just 76 points separating the top three contenders, there was still everything to play for.
At the start of day one, 2017 world silver medallist Schafer&nbsp;took an early lead after running 13.57 in the 100m hurdles. France&rsquo;s Leonie Cambours was close behind with 13.58 and Weissenberg was third overall with 13.78.
Cambours then cleared 1.80m in the high jump, giving her the overall lead from Weissenberg, who managed 1.77m. A 1.71m leap from Schafer meant she dropped down the standings briefly.
USA&rsquo;s Shaina Burns entered the fray with a 14.70m heave in the shot, elevating her to fourth overall, close behind Weissenberg (who threw 13.59m), Schaefer (13.98m) and Cambours (12.04m).
Weissenberg extended her lead thanks to a 24.03 clocking in the 200m &ndash; the fastest of the day &ndash; giving her a bit more breathing room over Schafer (24.40) and Cambours (24.44). Weissenberg ended the day with 3696, while Schafer&nbsp;was second (3643) and Cambours third (3620).
Weissenberg is the 2016 world U20 long jump silver medallist and she showed her strength in that discipline at the start of day two, leaping 6.21m. That was the second-best mark behind Lovisa Karlsson&rsquo;s 6.27m &ndash; the performance moving the Swedish athlete into fifth place. Weissenberg remained at the top of the standings, while Cambours overtook Schafer&nbsp;and moved into second place.
A 48.00m javelin throw by Weissenberg was the best of the competition and Schafer regained second place with one event to go, throwing 47.81m &ndash; 170 points separating the top two.
A time of 2:17 was needed in the 800m for Weissenberg to improve her overall PB and while that was out of reach, she did more than enough for victory and ran 2:18.72 for her 6273-point score &shy;&ndash; a qualifying standard for the European Championships on home soil.
Schafer&rsquo;s 2:13.95 PB contributed to her 6170-point tally for second place, while Cambours was third with 5933.
"I'm incredibly happy, because I didn't think I would win in Ratingen,&rdquo; said Weissenberg. &ldquo;The atmosphere was incredibly good.&rdquo; Her aim now will be the World Championships standard of 6420 in G&ouml;tzis.
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/calendar-results/7174019/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
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World indoor silver medallist leaps world decathlon best of 8.30m in long jump

Ehammer nails huge leap in Ratingen while Weissenberg wins heptathlon

Garrett Scantling scored 8867 points to move to seventh on the world decathlon all-time list, while Anna Hall also secured her heptathlon title in style at the USATF Combined Events Championships in Fayetteville on Friday and Saturday (6-7).
Scantling&rsquo;s performance adds more than 200 points to his previous best achieved when winning at last year&rsquo;s US Olympic Trials, with the 28-year-old going on to finish fourth at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
In Fayetteville he moved into the lead after the pole vault, overtaking day one leader Kyle Garland, who also impressed with a collegiate record of 8720. Zach Ziemek placed third with 8573. 
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THAT DECATHLON 🤯 Garrett Scantling leaves the USATF Combined Events Championships as a CHAMP! 🥇Garrett Scantling totaled 8867 for a world lead 😳 🥈Kyle Garland set a collegiate record of 8720 🤩 🥉Zach Ziemek racked up 8573 💥<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JourneyToGold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JourneyToGold</a> <a href="https://t.co/GfSTVBbrop">pic.twitter.com/GfSTVBbrop</a>
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 In the heptathlon, Hall remained strong throughout and ended her competition with a 2:03.11 800m &ndash; the fourth-fastest ever 800m as part of a heptathlon.
She improved her PB and US collegiate record to 6458 to win by 274 points over Ashtin Mahler, with Michelle Atherley third.
Garland&rsquo;s leading score at the end of the first day was 4660 points, with his results including PBs of 10.63 in the 100m and 7.86m in the long jump. Scantling had 4503 from performances including a 10.68 100m, 7.68m long jump PB and 48.38 400m.
Scantling started day two with a 13.59 110m hurdles PB, while Garland clocked a lifetime best of 13.71. Scantling then threw a big discus PB of 51.04m and was in the lead by 52 points after his 5.15m clearance in the pole vault.
Scantling topped the javelin with a 67.16m throw and then ran 4:46.37 in the 1500m to complete his 8867-point performance. Garland closed his campaign with a 4:43.21 PB.
Hall, meanwhile, set four individual PBs on the way to her 6458 US collegiate record score. 
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Anna Hall is a CHAMP! 🥇🇺🇸 Hall racked up a personal best of 6458 points to take a big win in the heptathlon at the USATF Combined Events Championships! 🥈Ashtin Mahler - 6184 🥉Michelle Atherley - 6154<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JourneyToGold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JourneyToGold</a> <a href="https://t.co/cDRoeq1GhB">pic.twitter.com/cDRoeq1GhB</a>
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 She opened with a PB of 13.21 in the 100m hurdles and then cleared 1.76m in the high jump, threw 12.51m in the shot put and led the 200m with a 23.14 PB on day one.
On day two, she long jumped a PB of 6.39m, threw the javelin 38.44m and then needed a time of 2:05.63 or faster to achieve the 6420 qualifying standard for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
She managed it by more than two seconds, running a PB of 2:03.11 to secure the standard and the title.
Mahler threw 50.07m in the javelin to move into second place and secured that with a 2:17.71 800m run for her score of 6184, with Atherley third with 6154.
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7182784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
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<h2>Sisson sets&nbsp;US record</h2>
Saturday also featured USATF Half Marathon Championships action in Indianapolis and there Olympian Emily Sisson clocked 1:07:11 to break the US record, while Leonard Korir won the men's title after a battle with&nbsp;Futsum Zeinasellassie.
Sisson had gone through&nbsp;5km in 15:54 and 10km in 31:57, and had a lead of almost five minutes by the 15km point, which she passed in &nbsp;47:54. She went on to win by six minutes ahead of Andrea Pomaranski (1:13:12) and Allie Kieffer (1:13:16). The previous US record had been Sara Hall's 1:07:15 set in Houston in January.
Korir and Zeinasellassie had been part of the seven-strong leading men's group that passed 10km in 30:09 and went on to race all the way to the finish line,&nbsp;Korir eventually winning by one second in 1:02:35.&nbsp;Jacob Thomson was third in&nbsp;1:02:46.
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7182821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>

Garrett Scantling scored 8867 points to move to seventh on the world decathlon all-time list.