Sentences with word «heptathlon»

It was a season best too for Tiffany Porter in the 100m hurdles, finishing 0.34 seconds ahead of Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill, setting the duo up for a summer of success in Rio.

Pupils from all over the country got the chance to meet Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill at a special event designed to build young people's confidence and life skills through sport

Great Britain had a banner night on the track at the summer Olympics, winning golds in heptathlon, men's long jump and men's 10,000 m, while Galen Rupp won a historic silver medal for Team USA.

Olympic and world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill will compete in the long jump at the Müller Anniversary Games on «Super Saturday», which is completed by a full programme of para-athletics events with the IPC Grand Prix Final taking place between 12 - 2 pm.

Jessica Ennis - Hill will make her first major international appearance since winning heptathlon gold at London 2012 after being named in the Great Britain squad for next month's World Championships in Beijing.

Finishing fifth in that competition had been Sotherton (pictured below), who had claimed heptathlon bronze in Athens four years before.

World heptathlon gold medallist Nafi Thiam among athletes in action as the Diamond League series heads to Belgium for the 2017 series finale

Elsewhere, Katarina Johnson - Thompson is well - placed to take gold in the women's heptathlon after day one, with a lead of 126 points despite struggling in the shot put.

Thiam makes her fourth appearance in Austria but this will be her first heptathlon since winning the Olympic title with her 6810 - point score.

World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton makes his Hypo - Meeting debut this weekend and will be joined in Austria by his wife Brianne Theisen - Eaton, the Commonwealth heptathlon champion and world silver medallist

Other multi-event action saw Netherland's European indoor heptathlon champion Eelco Sintnicolaas win the pole vault competition with 5.40 m.

... Katarina Johnson - Thompson defies injury to win gold in the women's heptathlon while it's a medal - filled day for the ho...

Of course Jessica Ennis - Hill has also shone, winning the 2012 Olympic heptathlon title and three world outdoor golds.

Jessica Ennis - Hill claimed a glorious second heptathlon world gold six years after her first in Berlin, merely 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie.

At the athletics, 25 - year - old Katarina Johnson - Thompson finally delivered on her potential with her first global outdoor heptathlon title — and another multi-sport star appeared in 18 - year - old Niamh Emerson who took bronze.

PB - filled series sees Nafissatou Thiam claim Olympic heptathlon crown ahead of defending champ Jessica Ennis - Hill

Jessica Ennis gave Great Britain its poste rmoment of the Summer Olympics thus far, winning heptathlon Saturday night in London.

Selectors also accepted the IAAF's invite for world junior heptathlon champion Morgan Lake to compete in the pentathlon.

The European under - 23 champion went to third on the UK all - time heptathlon list and top of the British under - 23 all - time rankings when winning the world's top invitational combined events meeting, adding her name to the list of greats who have also won the Hypo Meeting in its 40 - year history including Daley Thompson, Roman Sebrle, Jackie Joyner - Kersee, Carolina Kluft and Jessica Ennis - Hill.

Katarina Johnson - Thompson leads the Commonwealth Games heptathlon with 2111 points after the first two events on the Gold Coast.

The outing in Austria was Johnson - Thompson's first full heptathlon since finishing fifth at last year's IAAF World Championships in Moscow, where the European under - 23 champion set her previous best of 6449 points.

Meanwhile, young heptathlon talent Morgan Lake, who joined fellow Brit Johnson - Thompson in Gotzis, has reportedly chosen the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to compete at this summer, rather than the IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon where she would clearly be a strong contender for gold.

It's a complicated procedure — Haskal calls it an «interventional radiology heptathlon» — and his use of virtual reality is set to transform how it is taught.

As a past heptathlon world athlete, yoga teacher and studio owner, Ann strongly believes in the importance of integrating breath and movement for both daily health and pain management.

The British Olympian announced her retirement in October last year (16) after taking Olympic heptathlon silver in Rio.

Britain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to Beijing 2008 Olympic heptathlon bronze following the disqualification of Russia's Tatyana Chernova (pictured above) from the event.

Among the other Olympic champions in the race were 1984 figure skating gold medallist Robin Cousins and Denise Lewis, who won heptathlon gold 15 years ago in Sydney.

Two - time Olympic champion, Ashton Eaton, holds the world record in both the decathlon and indoor heptathlon.

Katarina Johnson - Thompson defies injury to win gold in the women's heptathlon while it's a medal - filled day for the home nations on the diving boards.

After placing eighth to finish as the top Briton in the competition at the Olympic Games last summer, Sawyers has since relocated to train with Athens Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton and the 22 - year - old is hoping the collaboration can help her to more success in 2017.

The women's non-Diamond League event saw Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam secure success in front of home fans as she cleared 1.93 m for the win, while the Borlee brothers were beaten by Dominican Republic's Luguelin Santos as he ran 45.02 ahead of Jonathan, Dylan and Kevin.

In last year's event, Porter finished ahead of Olympic and world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill and this time around she will go up against fellow Britons Lucy Hatton and Serita Solomon plus Norway's Isabelle Pedersen, who makes her CityGames debut on Deansgate.

Jackie Joyner - Kersee won the heptathlon and long jump at the World Track and Field Championships

The second day of the heptathlon, she continued with a 23» 5 1/4» long jump (1,220 points) and a modest 149» 10» throw in the javelin (777).

There was heart, as shown by an ailing Jackie Joyner - Kersee, driving herself through the 800, the final event of her two - day test, to win the heptathlon.

«I'd like to do a heptathlon once just to see how I would fare.

«It's amazing to me that Jackie can be in the heptathlon and still be so good in the long jump,» said Drechsler later, and then she allowed the possibility of an even more sustained battle between them.

«In the heptathlon, you have to be completely free to dig into yourself to the limit, to gut out that last bit in the 800,» she said.

She first won the heptathlon by a staggering 564 points, 7,128 to 6,564 for runner - up Larisa Nikitina of the U.S.S.R..

«But Jackie knew she had the individual long jump still to come, and she knew she had the heptathlon won.

«Rio was my target in the heptathlon but I've definitely accelerated my progress since I became a cyclist,» Marchant told the Yorkshire Post.

Katarina Johnson - Thompson remains on course for gold in the heptathlon after extending her overnight lead to 174 points with one event remaining.

Katarina Johnson - Thompson also tops the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the heptathlon

With London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill announcing her retirement today, we look back at her illustrious career and the success that has made her a household name around the world.

The 29 - year - old, who returned to competitive action in May after the birth of her first child last year, secured her selection for the heptathlon in China after achieving the qualifying mark in Gotzis.

Belgium's world and Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam was also over that height in fourth.

The Olympic heptathlon champion will make a decision as to whether she is ready to compete at next month's IAAF World Championships in Beijing following her performances next weekend.

From Denise Lewis and Kelly Sotherton to Jessica Ennis - Hill and Katarina Johnson - Thompson, England has a fine recent tradition in the heptathlon and Niamh Emerson is ensuring the production line continues.

He maintained that nine - point lead on his world - record mark following the morning's final event, the pole vault, too, as he matched the height he cleared in 2012 — 5.20 m — meaning he will need to run at least 2:33.54 in the 1000m to break the his heptathlon world record.

After matching Asher - Smith's 10.99 heat time in her own 100m heat, double European sprint champion Schippers continued to prove that her decision to concentrate on the sprints rather than the heptathlon is paying off, clocking a 10.92 Dutch record in the final to beat Nigeria's double Commonwealth champion Blessing Okagbare with 10.98 and Ivory Coast's double world silver medallist Murielle Ahoure with 11.01.