Heptathlon

France's Kevin Mayer in action during the men's pole vault heptathlon as part of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul on March 5, 2023.

Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson regained the heptathlon title in Budapest.

In the lead-up to the Worlds, she likened the heptathlon to spinning plates.

The final medal winners included Keith McInnis with a silver medal in the high jump, Justin Jenks getting silver in the shot put, Terrel Johnson with a bronze in the heptathlon, and Tipton taking home silver in the 800-meter run.

Freshman multis Easton Hammond placed third in the men’s heptathlon, setting a personal best of 5,196 combined event points.

I’m just praying I can take that into the heptathlon.

Inspired to pursue an athletics career at the age of 10 after watching Jessica Ennis-Hill win heptathlon gold at London 2012, she has become the first British woman to win an athletics gold since that moment.

I saw Jess competing, she was like the golden girl, everywhere and that really inspired me to go back, to actually want to do the heptathlon.

Johnson-Thompson was hoping to lay down a marker as she renewed her heptathlon rivalry with Olympic champion ahead of their anticipated battle for gold at but was sadly forced to pull out midway through the event to injury as Thiam cruised to victory.

Jump-starting the meet Thursday is the men’s heptathlon and the women’s pentathlon.

O'Connor, who broke the national heptathlon record in her teens, finished 13th in last year's World Championships.

Speiser won the heptathlon with a total of 5,270 points over all seven events.

The 31-year-old is top of the leaderboard after the first two events of the heptathlon in the French capital.

The Aggies return to Hayward Field tomorrow for day four of trials where Chapman and Burns compete in the final three events of the heptathlon.

After years of falling short, Katarina Johnson-Thompson ended her wait for her first global outdoor title by powering to heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Doha, beating 2017 champion Nafissatou Thiam with a British record 6,981 points.

After two days of exhilarating competition in the world’s most prestigious heptathlon event, Katarina Johnson-Thompson tumbled across the line in the 800m before dropping like a swatted fly.

Grant Holloway of the United States took gold in the men’s 110 meters hurdles while Katerina Johnson-Thompson leads at the half way stage of the women’s heptathlon.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson holds a 96-point overnight lead in the heptathlon.

Michelle Atherley has been named the ACC Outdoor Heptathlon Champion, the ACC Indoor Field MVP and the ACC Scholar of the Year.

Sophomore Dominic McClinton finished sixth place in the men’s heptathlon with 4,819 points.