Heptathlon

Women's Heptathlon

There are two versions of the heptathlon. The first is an outdoor competition for women, and is the combined event for women contested in the Athletics program of the Olympics and in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The IAAF World Combined Events Challenge determines a yearly women's heptathlon champion. The women's outdoor heptathlon consists of the following events, with the first four contested on the first day, and the remaining three on day two:
100 m hurdles
high jump
shot put
200 m
long jump
javelin throw
800 m

The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics. In recent years some women's decathlon competitions have been conducted, consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it. But the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women. Tatyana Chernova is the current World Champion, having defeated Jessica Ennis of Great Britain, who placed second in the 2011 world championships.

There is also a Tetradecathlon, which is a double heptathlon, consisting of 14 events, seven events per day.

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/hepth/index.htm


Point systemEvent
                                     a            b         c
200 meters              4.99087    42.5    1.81
800 meters              0.11193    254     1.88
100 metres hurdles 9.23076    26.7    1.835
High Jump              1.84523    75.0    1.348
Long Jump              0.188807  210     1.41
Shot Put                  56.0211    1.50    1.05
Javelin Throw        15.9803    3.80    1.04


The scoring system was developed by Dr. Karl Ulbrich. The events are split into three parts, where the scores are counted according to the three formulae:
Running events (200m, 800m and 100m hurdles):

Jumping events (high jump and long jump):

Throwing events (shot put and javelin):

P is for points, T is for time in seconds, M is for height/length in centimeters and D is length in meters. a, b and c have different values for the each of the events.


Event         WR–World record/
                  HB–Heptathlon best   Athlete                   Record     Score Difference                                                                                                                 in points                                                                                                                     scored  
100m Hurdles    
                            WR                Yordanka Donkova    12.21 s    1246
                            HB                 Eunice Barber            12.62 s    1182    −64
High Jump
                            WR                 Stefka Kostadinova   2.09  m    1359
                            HB                 Tia Hellebaut             1.97  m    1198   −161
Shot Put
                            WR                 Natalya Lisovskaya   22.63 m   1378
                            HB                  Nataliya Dobrynska  17.29 m   1015   −363
200m
                            WR                 Florence Griffith Joyner 21.34 s 1251
                            HB                Jackie Joyner Kersee    22.30 s 1150       −101
Long Jump
                            WR                 Galina Chistyakova    7.52  m  1351
                            HB                Jackie Joyner Kersee   7.27  m  1264      −87
Javelin[note 1]
                            WR                  Barbora Spotakova    72.28 m 1295    current                                                                                                                      1999                                                                                                                          model
                            HB                  Margaret Simpson       56.36 m 984  −311 current                                                                                                                        1999                                                                                                                          model          
                            WR                 Petra Felke                   80.00 m 1448   old model
                            HB                 Tessa Sanderson           64.64 m 1145 −303  old                                                                                                                          model
800m
                           WR                  Jarmila Kratochvilova  1:53.28  1224
                           HB                   Nadine Debois              2:01.84 1087     −137
Total World record 9104
Heptathlon Bests 7879


 Nataliya Dobrynska in the Osaka World Athletics Championships 2007 women's heptathlon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nataliya_Dobrynska.jpg )