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2007 World Championships In Athletics – Women's Heptathlon
The women's heptathlon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place from August 25–26, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. The competition is notable for having the highest number of competitors (39) in the World Championships history. The winning margin was 200 points. Medalists Schedule :August 25, 2007 : :August 26, 2007 : Records Overall results Points table after final event : References Results100 m hurdles [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka07 D2A Heptathlon Final
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin, Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the List of metropolitan areas in Japan, second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-List of urban areas by population, largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Ōsaka was traditionally considered Japan's economic hub. By the Kofun period (300–538) it had developed into an important regional port, and in the 7th and 8th centuries, it served briefly as the imperial capital. Osaka continued to flourish during the Edo period (1603–1867) and became known as a center of Japanese culture. Following the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
200 M
The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a Sprint (running), sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the ''Stadion (running race), stadion'' and run on a straight track, was the first recorded event at the ancient Olympic Games. The 200 m places more emphasis on speed endurance than shorter sprint distances as athletes predominantly rely on anaerobic energy system during the 200 m sprint. Similarly to other sprint distances, the 200 m begins from the starting blocks. When the sprinters adopt the 'set' position in the blocks they are able to adopt a more efficient starting posture and Isometric exercise#Isometric presses as preparation for explosive power movements, isometrically preload their muscles. This enables them to stride forwards more powerfully when the race begins and start faster. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Kesselschläger
Sonja Kesselschläger (born 20 January 1978, in Finsterwalde) is a German heptathlete. International competitions Circuit performances *Hypo-Meeting **2000 Hypo-Meeting, 2000 (14th), 2001 Hypo-Meeting, 2001 (9th), 2002 Hypo-Meeting, 2002 (4th), 2003 Hypo-Meeting, 2003 (3rd), 2004 Hypo-Meeting, 2004 (9th), 2005 Hypo-Meeting, 2005 (8th), 2006 Hypo-Meeting, 2006, (10th), 2008 Hypo-Meeting, 2008 (14th) References Official Homepage * 1978 births Living people People from Finsterwalde Sportspeople from Bezirk Cottbus German heptathletes Athletes from Brandenburg Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-heptathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Wheeler
Kylie Wheeler (born 17 January 1980 in Subiaco) is an Australian retired heptathlete. Wheeler is a six-times Australia national champion in heptathlon in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Wheeler also won a silver medal in the Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ... and won the event also at the 2003 Summer Universiade. She announced her retirement from the sport in order to follow other commitments and interests outside athletics in May 2009. She is now Head Athletics Coach at Guildford Grammar. References External links * 1980 births Living people Australian heptathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Marcussen
Ida Marcussen (born 1 November 1987 in Kristiansand) is a Norwegian heptathlete. She represents IK Våg, having changed clubs from Kristiansands IF in 2006. As a junior athlete she finished sixth at the 2005 European Junior Championships and won a silver medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing. Her score of 6020 points from Beijing was only 65 points away from being a new Norwegian record. In 2007 she entered her first senior championships at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. After day one she was situated near the bottom of the results list; however, a strong performance during the second day saw her climb to eleventh place. She scored 6226 points, demolishing the Norwegian record in the event. In 2008 she opened the season by setting a Norwegian indoor record in the pentathlon, with 4214 points. She competed at the international combined event meets in Götzis and Ratingen, setting new personal bests in the shot put, javelin and 800 metres. In Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bogdanova
Anna Bogdanova (born 21 October 1984) is a Russian heptathlete. Bogdanova was the bronze medallist at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and placed sixth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won at the European Athletics Indoor Championships the following year. In professional competitions she placed third at the 2008 Hypo-Meeting. International competitions See also *List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women) This is the complete list of women's medalists at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. Current program 60 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 3000 metres 60 metres hurdles 4 × 400 metres relay High jump Pole vault ... * List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women) References * 1984 births Living people Russian heptathletes Olympic heptathletes Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Collonvillé
Marie Collonvillé (born 23 November 1973 in Amiens) is a French heptathlete. She was the first-ever IAAF-recognised world record holder in the women's decathlon; the event was officially recognised from 1 January 2005, and her mark of 8160 set in Talence on 26 September 2004 was broken by Austra Skujytė on 15 April 2005. She was a regular competitor at the annual Hypo-Meeting The Hypo-Meeting is an annual athletics (sport), athletics competition that takes place in the Mösle stadium in Götzis in Vorarlberg (Austria) held in the spring (late May, early June). In its history, a total of three world records have been se .... International competitions Personal bests *100 metres – 12.54 (2006) *200 metres – 24.71 (1997) *800 metres – 2:10.90 (1999) *100 metres hurdles – 13.52 (2000) *High jump – 1.94 (1997) *Long jump – 6.44 (2006) *Shot put – 12.73 (2006) *Javelin throw – 49.14 (2004) *Heptathlon – 6350 (1997) *Decathlon – 8150 (2004) See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nataliya Dobrynska
Nataliya Dobrynska (; born 29 May 1982) is a retired Ukrainian athlete who competed in the combined events. She is the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion and also holds the heptathlon best in the shot put. Dobrynska was the world indoor record holder for the pentathlon with a score of 5013 points until March 2023. Career She competed in the 2004 Olympics, finishing eighth. She won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. She finished sixth in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships she finished fifth. She won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Despite being one of the favourites in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Dobrynska finished fourth just missing out on the medals. She returned to the podium at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, taking second place in the pentathlon behind re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Oeser
Jennifer Oeser (born 29 November 1983 in Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a retired German heptathlete. Career Oeser's first international championship was the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics and she finished in eighth place with a score of 5405 points. She improved her personal best to 5901 points to win the gold medal at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships. Moving up to the senior ranks, she finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and was seventh in the event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Oeser was eleventh at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She set a personal best of 6493 points to win the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin. The following year she was at the Erdgas Meeting in Ratingen Ratingen (; ) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austra Skujytė
Austra Skujytė (born 12 August 1979 in Biržai) is a retired Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon. On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the heptathlon. The latter medal was allocated retrospectively following the disqualification in 2016 of original medalist Tatyana Chernova for historic doping offences. Her personal best in the 7-event heptathlon of 6599 was set on 4 August at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. During that competition she set the World Heptathlon Best in the Shot Put at . She is an eight time national champion in the Shot Put. She has also won National Championships in the Discus, 100 metres hurdles twice and Long jump three times. She retired from athletics in 2017. Skujytė graduated with a degree in kinesiology from Kansas State University, where she became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilli Schwarzkopf
Lilli Schwarzkopf (born 28 August 1983 in Novopokrovka, Chuy, Novopokrovka, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, Kirghiz SSR) is a German Heptathlon, heptathlete. Her first major global competition was the 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, 2005 World Championships in Athletics, where she finished in 13th place. She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon, 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She followed this up on the world stage with a fifth-place finish at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, 2007 World Championships and eighth place at the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon, 2008 Summer Olympics. She failed to finish the heptathlon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin and chose to omit the 2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon, 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (née Ennis; born 28 January 1986) is a British retired athlete who specialised in the heptathlon and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), and the 2010 European champion. She is also the 2010 World Indoor pentathlon champion. A member of the City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club, she is a former British national record holder for the heptathlon. She is also a former British record holder in the 100 metres hurdles, the high jump and the indoor pentathlon. Since retiring from athletic competition, Ennis-Hill has appeared as an athletics commentator and studio pundit for the BBC. She has also worked as an entrepreneur and created several fitness apps specialising in women's health and training. Early life and family Born in Sheffield on 28 January 1986, Ennis-Hill is one of two daughters of Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell. She has a younger sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
