Medalists

Gold	Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Denise Lewis OBE is a retired British athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.-2000 Olympics:... Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...  (GBR)
Silver	Urszula Włodarczyk Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...  (POL)
Bronze	Natallia Sazanovich Natallia Sazanovich Natallia Sazanovich is a former Belarusian heptathlete. She won two Olympic medals, and achieved her personal best score of 6563 points at the 1996 Olympics. Sazanovich is also the 2001 World Indoor champion. She also competed at the 2004 Olympics, but withdrew after two... Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...  (BLR)

Schedule

• August 21
  1. 100 m hurdles
  2. High Jump
  3. Shot Put
  4. 200 m

• August 22
  5. Long Jump
  6. Javelin Throw
  7. 800 m

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...		7291	September 24, 1988	Seoul, South Korea
European Record Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...		7007	June 11, 1989	Bryansk Bryansk Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: -History:The first written mention of Bryansk was in 1146, in the Hypatian Codex, as Debryansk... , Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

Results

See also

• 1997 Women's World Championships Heptathlon
  1997 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
  These are the official results of the Women's Heptathlon competition at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece.-Medalists:-Schedule:*Sunday, August 3*#100 m Hurdles*#High Jump*#Shot Put*#200 m*Monday, August 4*# Long Jump...
  
  
• 1998 Hypo-Meeting
  1998 Hypo-Meeting
  The 24th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on May 30 and May 31, 1998 in Götzis, Austria. The track and field competition, featuring a men's decathlon and a women's heptathlon event, was part of the inaugural 1998 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge series of meetings.-Schedule:*May...
  
  
• 1999 Women's World Championships Heptathlon