Adrianna Sulek-Schubert at the Czapiewski Memorial (© Organisers)
Adrianna Sułek-Schubert will target her fourth heptathlon win at the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial when she returns to the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event in the Polish town of Nakło nad Notecią this weekend (11-12).
She goes up against Austria’s 2019 world bronze medallist Verena Mayr, while the decathlon features Czechia’s world indoor fourth-place finisher Vilém Stráský.
Sułek-Schubert defends her heptathlon title. The 2022 European silver medallist was coached by the late Wiesław Czapiewski, in whose honour the meeting is held. She set a meeting record of 6290 at the inaugural edition in 2022, then scored 6007 to win in 2024 and went close to her meeting record with 6287 to retain her title last year.
The 27-year-old started her first heptathlon of the year in Warsaw at the end of last month but withdrew after clocking 13.85 in the hurdles due to illness. She finished fourth at her home World Indoor Championships in Toruń in March, four years on from her pentathlon silver in Belgrade, her performances in Toruń including a shot put PB of 14.89m.
Mayr was third in Nakło nad Notecią with 6159 last year and also returns. The 31-year-old opened her outdoor season by contesting the shot put and high jump in Grenoble in May and lines up for her first heptathlon of the year.
She is joined by her compatriot Sarah Lagger, who won at the Austrian Combined Events Championships last month with a score of 5950, as well as Sweden’s Bianca Salming and Erika Wärff, who set a PB of 6271 at the Götzis Hypomeeting in May.
Adéla Tkáčová is also in PB form – she scored 6227 to win at the Czech Combined Events Championships last month.
In the decathlon, Stráský returns looking to go one better than his runner-up finish in a PB of 8136 last year. The 2023 World University Games champion is back in combined events action for the first time since finishing fourth at the World Indoor Championships with a heptathlon PB of 6188. That followed his fifth-place finish at the World Indoor Championships in 2025 and sixth place the year before that.
He sits second on the entry list to French 22-year-old Maxime Moitie-Charnois who set a PB of 8156 to finish second at the French Championships in Talence last year. He scored 7975 in Götzis in May.
Lithuania’s Edgaras Benkunskas finished second to Stráský at the World University Games three years ago and faces him again, contesting his first decathlon of the year.
Puerto Rico’s Yariel Soto set a PB of 8032 when finishing second in Arona last year, while Czechia’s Adam Havlíček was just five points off that mark with the PB of 8027 he achieved in Brno, also last month.
Leading entries
Women’s heptathlon
Adrianna Sułek-Schubert (POL) 6672
Verena Mayr (AUT) 6591
Erika Wärff (SWE) 6271
Adéla Tkáčová (CZE) 6227
Sarah Lagger (AUT) 6225
Bianca Salming (SWE) 6185
Anastasia Ntragkomirova (GRE) 6163
Lovisa Karlsson (SWE) 6146
Edyta Bielska (POL) 6062
Men’s decathlon
Maxime Moitie-Charnois (FRA) 8156
Vilém Stráský (CZE) 8136
Edgaras Benkunskas (LTU) 8098
Yariel Soto (PUR) 8032
Adam Havlíček (CZE) 8027
Finley Gaio (SUI) 8022
Zsombor Gálpál (HUN) 8006
