Anna Hall (born March 23, 2001) is an American

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specializing in the combined events. She won the silver medal in the

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at the 2023 World Championships and the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships. Hall is the North American indoor record holder for the

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. Her heptathlon and pentathlon best scores place her fifth and fourth on the respective world all-time lists. She is the only woman to break 6700 points in the heptathlon and run under 55 seconds in the

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. Hall also has a 50.82 s personal best in the

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. She is a three-time U.S. national champion and won two

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titles representing the

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Early life and background

Anna Hall is the daughter of Ronette and David Hall. She has three sisters: older sisters Kathryn and Julia and younger sister Lauryn. Anna Hall grew up in an athletic household in

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, Colorado near

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. Her father David was a three-sport

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at the

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: a

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on the football team, a basketball player, and a competitor in the

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. Her older sisters Kathryn and Julia played tennis and ran track at Michigan respectively. Anna started track at seven by doing the

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and then also running the

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. Growing up in the mountains, she skied, played

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and

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, and swam for her neighborhood pool team in the summer.

Early career

Hall started high school at

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but switched to Valor Christian for her second year. She was a three-time New Balance Nationals

champion between 2017 and 2019 and the 2018 New Balance Nationals

champion. In 2018, she set her first pentathlon (junior class) and

national high school records. The 17-year-old made her international debut at the World Under-20 Championships in

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, Finland that year, finishing ninth in the heptathlon against athletes up to two years her senior. The following year, she improved both her national high school records with 4302 and 5847 points at the USATF Indoor Championships (third place in senior division aged still 17) and Pan American U20 Championships (first place) respectively. She was also back-to-back heptathlon U20 national champion.

College

University of Georgia: 2021 injury

In 2019–2021, Hall represented the

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. In 2021, after finishing second in the NCAA indoor pentathlon and third in the high jump, she was an NCAA high jump All-American to help the Bulldogs earn their NCAA Outdoor third-place team finish as she skipped the heptathlon competition to focus on the delayed 2020 US Olympic trials. During her

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heat at the Olympic trials in June 2021, she hit the eighth barrier and crashed hard on the track, breaking the

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in her left foot. She later posted, "my heart is broken that I didn’t get to put up the score I know I was ready for and my Olympic dreams (for this year) were shattered before my eyes". Hall had a surgery to insert a screw into the injured foot and wasn't cleared to walk until October. In the meantime, after a Bulldogs coaching change, she transferred from the

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to the

for a better fit both athletically and academically.

University of Florida: World heptathlon bronze

In 2022, Hall represented the

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. After overcoming the broken foot, she turned in a personal best of 4618 points in her second pentathlon competition in February, winning the SEC indoor title. She then claimed the pentathlon and heptathlon titles at the indoor and outdoor

Championships respectively. Indoors, Hall helped the Gators win their first women's NCAA Indoor team title in 30 years. Outdoors, she was also the 400 m hurdles silver medalist to help the Gators earn their first ever NCAA Outdoor team title (running the

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20 minutes after her hurdles final). She shattered her heptathlon personal best with a score of 6412 points at the

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, breaking the collegiate record of 6390 set by the world record-holder

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in 1983 and setting an American record in the heptathlon 800 meters with a time of 2:04.61. Hall improved both marks to take the title at the USATF Combined Event Championships, with a total of 6458 points and the third-fastest heptathlon 800 m time in world history (2:03.11). She was named

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Women's Outdoor National Field Athlete of the Year. In July 2022, the 21-year-old bettered her heptathlon personal best by almost 300 points with a score of 6755 to claim the bronze medal at the home

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. After setting lifetime bests in three events, she became the third-best female heptathlete in American history and established a new NCAA record. It was the best US female heptathlon since 1993 and the first world medal in the discipline for the country for 20 years – since

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also earned bronze in

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Professional career

In August 2022, Hall turned professional, signing a contract with

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2023: North American pentathlon indoor record

On February 16, 2023, she obliterated Brianne Theisen-Eaton's North American pentathlon record with a total of 5004 points at the USATF Indoor Championships in

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. Becoming the third female in history to achieve 5000 points or more and moving up to second place on the world all-time list, Hall just missed the world record of 5013 pts, set by

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in 2012. At the same meet, she later claimed the

title, running a new personal best time of 51.03 seconds. On May 28, the 22-year-old improved her hepthatlon PB by 233 points by amassing a world-leading 6988 for a win at the prestigious

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, Austria to move to second / fifth on the NACAC area / world all-time list respectively. She set personal bests in five events, including a 100 m hurdles meet record of 12.75 s. Hall also turned in the second-best ever, behind only Jackie Joyner-Kersee, day-one score of 4172. She was selected for the

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in August 2023.

2024

Hall underwent knee surgery in January 2024. After breaking her foot mid-competition at the 2021 Olympic trials, Hall secured a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning the heptathlon at the US Olympic trials in June. She competed in the heptathlon at the

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, finishing in fifth place overall.

2025

She was runner-up to

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over 400 metres flat at the

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event in Miami in May 2025. Hall scored a personal best 7032 points to win the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting at Gotzis, Austria on 1 June 2025. This broke the meet record and tied with Carolina Kluft as second on the all-time list behind world record holder

. Hall set new personal bests in the high jump, shot put, javelin and 800 meters, with her 800m time of 2:01.23, a new heptathlon world record for the distance.

Personal life

Hall began dating professional tennis player

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in November 2021, though the couple broke up sometime after early 2023. They met at the

. She was in a relationship with NFL player Joejuan Williams in late 2023. Hall is dating NFL player

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(

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) since November 2024.

Achievements

International competitions

Circuit performances

Wins and titles

* World Athletics Combined Events Tour ** 2023: Götzis Hypo-Meeting ** 2025: Götzis Hypo-Meeting

Personal bests

Outdoor

: Heptathlon best

Indoor

National championships

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References

External links

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Anna 2001 births Living people USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States American heptathletes Florida Gators women's track and field athletes World Athletics Championships medalists United States collegiate record holders in athletics (track and field) NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Georgia Bulldogs women's track and field athletes 21st-century American sportswomen Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Valor Christian High School alumni