2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
Encyclopedia
These are the official results of the Women's Heptathlon
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:...

 competition at the 2001 World Championships
2001 World Championships in Athletics
The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 August and 12 August and was the first time the event had visited North America...

 in Edmonton, Canada. There were a total number of 18 participating athletes, including two non-finishers and one non-starter. The competition started on Saturday August 4, 2001 and ended on Sunday August 5, 2001.

Medalists

Gold   Yelena Prokhorova
Yelena Prokhorova
Yelena Prokhorova is a Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2001 world champion in this event. She was born at Kemerovo, in Siberia....


Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 (RUS)
Silver   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)
Bronze   Shelia Burrell
Shelia Burrell
Shelia Burrell is a retired American heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...


United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 (USA)



Schedule

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


  • Sunday August 5
    1. Long Jump
    2. Javelin Throw
    3. 800 m



Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World 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
Seoul
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, South Korea
South Korea
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Event 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:...

 
7128 September 1, 1987   Rome
Rome
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, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Season Best  6736 May 27, 2001   Götzis
Götzis
Götzis is a town in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg, district Feldkirch.The town is well-known for its annual hypo-combined events meeting, the so called Hypo-Meeting, where some of the world's leading decathletes and heptathletes gather in the Mösle stadium...

, Austria
Austria
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Results

Rank Athlete Heptathlon Points
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
13.77 1.88 13.15 23.73 6.61 50.73 2:11.53 6694
13.29 1.76 15.90 23.87 6.50 46.72 2:20.87 6539
13.05 1.67 12.87 22.92 6.45 48.74 2:14.24 6472
4 align=left | 14.12 1.79 14.74 23.41 6.02 44.04 2:15.56 6294
5 align=left | 13.56 1.82 13.83 24.91 6.28 45.89 2:18.54 6283
6 align=left | 14.37 1.79 16.06 25.52 6.00 46.04 2:20.78 6112
7 align=left | 13.68 1.70 14.68 25.16 6.04 46.12 2:19.05 6073
8 align=left | 13.86 1.73 14.12 24.66 5.86 38.73 2:07.44 6061
9 align=left | 13.94 1.70 14.03 25.10 5.69 45.38 2:09.85 6010
10 align=left | 13.79 1.79 13.32 25.52 5.94 45.40 2:18.98 6002
11 align=left | 13.87 1.79 11.89 25.59 5.93 41.61 2:13.70 5887
12 align=left | 14.48 1.73 14.94 26.41 5.87 46.37 2:24.45 5786
13 align=left | 14.07 1.76 11.14 25.11 5.57 50.76 2:23.54 5748
14 align=left | 14.60 1.85 12.84 26.54 5.65 44.37 2:23.20 5680
15 align=left | 14.41 1.73 11.43 25.04 5.92 34.60 2:22.89 5492
align=left | bgcolor=#F2F5A9| 12.78 1.88 NM DNS DNS DNS DNS DNF
align=left | 15.02 1.76 NM 25.69 5.73 DNS DNS DNF
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