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Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's Heptathlon
The women's heptathlon competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–21 August. Competition format The heptathlon consists of seven track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the seven components. The seven event scores are summed to give a total for the heptathlon. Schedule All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2) Records , the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. No new records were set during the competition. Overall results The final results of the event are in the following table. ;Key: References External linksOfficial Olympic Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Heptathlon Heptathlon 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Athens)
The Olympic Stadium of Athens "Spyridon Louis, Spyros Louis" (, ''Olympiakó Stádio Athinón "Spýros Loúis"'') is a sports stadium in Marousi, in the north section of Athens, Greece. With a total capacity of 75,000, it is the largest sports venue in Greece. It is a part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) and is named after the first modern Olympic Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon, marathon gold medalist in 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896, Spyridon Louis, Spyros Louis. The stadium served as the main stadium during the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Paralympics, including the opening and closing ceremonies.It is the current home ground of Panathinaikos F.C., Panathinaikos. Built in 1982 for the 1982 European Athletics Championships and the Hellenic Football Federation's host bid for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, it became the list of national stadiums, national stadium of Greece. In its original iteration, it served as the home ground for footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. Since ancient times, competitors have successively improved their technique until developing the universally preferred Fosbury Flop, in which athletes run towards the bar and leap head first with their back to the bar. The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events in the Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic athletics program. It is contested at the World Championships in Athletics and the World Athletics Indoor Championships, and is a common occurrence at track and field meets. The high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1928 Olympic Games. Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the world record holder with a j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shobha Javur
Javur Jagadeeshappa Shobha (born 14 January 1978) is an Indian professional track and field athlete from a village called Pashupathihaal near Dharwad in Karnataka. She currently resides in Secunderabad in Telangana, India. She participated in the heptathlon and was the winner of the event at the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in 2003. Her personal best of 6211 points, achieved in 2004, is a national record. She came into the news for her performance at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she completed the seven-discipline heptathlon event despite being injured in the penultimate event of Javelin throw. She had to be carried off the field but she returned with a tightly strapped left ankle and finished 3rd in the final event (800 m) and 11th overall with 6172 points. She was awarded the Arjuna award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Sokolova
Svetlana Viktorovna Sokolova (; born 9 January 1981 in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a retired athlete who competed internationally for Russia in the combined events. She represented her country in the heptathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens finishing tenth. She also won the silver medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade and was fifth at the 2002 European Championships. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *200 metres – 24.02 (+0.6 m/s) (Tula 2004) *800 metres – 2:07.23 (Tula 2004) *100 metres hurdles – 13.56 (+1.1 m/s) (Tula 2004) *High jump – 1.82 (Tula 2004) *Long jump – 6.26 (+0.3 m/s) (Tula 2004) *Shot put – 15.09 (Tula 2004) *Javelin throw – 47.86 (Athens 2004) *Heptathlon – 6591 (Tula 2004) Indoor *800 metres – 2:18.75 (Moscow 2006) *60 metres hurdles – 8.48 (Moscow 2006) *High jump – 1.73 (Moscow 2006) *Long jump – 6.36 (Moscow 2001) *Shot put – 14.31 (Moscow 2006) *Pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Simpson
Margaret Simpson (born 31 December 1981 in Krapa) is a Ghanaian heptathlete. She won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships, setting several personal bests in the process. Her personal best is 6423 points, achieved in Götzis in May 2005. Biography In one of her earliest international senior performances, she placed fourth at the 1999 All-Africa Games. She was the junior champion at the 1999 African Junior Athletics Championships, but failed to finish in the event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She was selected for the heptathlon at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and placed 13th overall. Senior success came the following year as she took the bronze medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and then won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics. She failed to finish at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. In 2004, Simpson became African Champion for a second time and followed this result with a ninth place ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Yelena Prokhorova
Yelena Vladimirovna Prokhorova (; born April 16, 1978) is a Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2001 world champion in this event. She was born at Kemerovo, in Siberia. In 2005 she tested positive for a banned substance in an out-of-competition test. She was suspended by the IAAF from October 2005 to October 2006. International competitions Personal bests See also *List of doping cases in athletics *List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women) *List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners *List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women) *List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women) *List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women) This is a complete list of women's medalists of the European Athletics Indoor Championships. 60 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 3000 metres 60 metres hurdles 4 × 400 metres relay High jump Long jump Triple jump Pole ... Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelia Burrell
Shelia Burrell (born January 15, 1972, in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American athletics coach and former heptathlete who is the head coach of the San Diego State Aztecs women's cross country and San Diego State Aztecs women's track & field, women's track & field teams at San Diego State University (SDSU). She was a two-time representative of the United States at the Summer Olympics, competing in 2000 and 2004. Burrell's best Olympic finish was fourth place. She also competed twice at the World Championships in Athletics, which included a bronze medal in 2001. Burrell was also a two-time silver medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games. Her personal best for the heptathlon 6472 points and she was American national champion on four occasions. On the professional circuit, Burrell was the winner of the 2002 Hypo-Meeting, having previously finished fourth at the 1999 Hypo-Meeting and the 2000 Hypo-Meeting. In her last outing there, she was sixth at the 2004 Hypo-Meeting. In 2001, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
800 M
The 800 metres, or 800 meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the first modern games in 1896. During the winter track season the event is usually run by completing four laps of an indoor 200-metre track. The event was derived from the imperial measurement of a half mile (880 yards), a traditional British racing distance. 800 m is 4.67 m less than a half mile. The event combines aerobic endurance with anaerobic conditioning and sprint speed, so the 800m athlete has to combine training for both. Runners in this event are occasionally fast enough to also compete in the 400 metres but more commonly have enough endurance to 'double up' in the 1500m. Only Alberto Juantorena and Jarmila Kratochvílová have won major international titles at 400m and 800m. Race tactics The 800m is also known for it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javelin Throw
The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon. History The javelin throw was added to the Ancient Olympic Games as part of the pentathlon in 708 BC. It included two events, one for distance and the other for accuracy in hitting a target. The javelin was thrown with the aid of a thong (''Amentum, ankyle'' in Greek) that was wound around the middle of the shaft. Athletes held the javelin by the ''ankyle'', a leather strap around the shaft, so when they released the javelin, the unwinding of the thong gave the javelin a spiral trajectory. Throwing javelin-like poles into targets was revived in Germany and Sweden in the early 1870s. In Sweden, these poles developed into the modern javelin, and throwing them for distance became a common event ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
