2021-03 EC Women's Indoors Pentathlon
Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) won the women's pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in March 2021 with 4904 points, 34 above the personal best she set in Beograd in March 2017. Four of the ten finishers scored above their PB series.
| # | Athlete | Points | Behind | vs. PB series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) | 4904 | +34 | |
| 2 | Noor Vidts (BEL) | 4791 | -113 | +126 |
| 3 | Xénia Krizsán (HUN) | 4644 | -260 | +13 |
| 4 | Ivona Dadic (AUT) | 4587 | -317 | -180 |
| 5 | Holly Mills (GBR) | 4517 | -387 | -40 |
| 6 | Rita Nemes (HUN) | 4486 | -418 | -46 |
| 7 | Paulina Ligarska (POL) | 4484 | -420 | +79 |
| 8 | Célia Perron (FRA) | 4310 | -594 | -124 |
| 9 | Adrianna Sułek (POL) | 4231 | -673 | -211 |
| 10 | Nadine Broersen (NED) | 3556 | -1348 | -1274 |
| DNF | Annik Kälin (SUI) | |||
| DNF | María Vicente (ESP) |
The high jump decided the lead. Holly Mills (GBR) had taken the opening hurdles with 8.22 for 1079 points and led by 2. Thiam cleared 1.89 for 1093 points, Noor Vidts (BEL) 1.83 for 1016, and Thiam moved to 2152 with 68 in hand. She led after every remaining event, by 157 after the shot and 200 after the long jump.
Thiam was fifth after the hurdles and 18 under her own PB series, and the high jump, which took her to the front, was also the event that cost her most: 1.89 for 1093 points, 91 under the 1.96 in her PB series. She was 117 under after the shot. The long jump returned 75 at 6.60 for 1040 points, 23 further than the jump in her series, and 2.18.80 in the 800m for 840 points another 76. She finished 34 above the series.
Vidts was second after four of the five events and gained on her PB series in all of them. The hurdles gave 13, the high jump 13, the shot 60 at 13.83 against a 12.94 series mark and the long jump 16, and she was 102 above the series with one event to run. She closed with 2.12.59 in the 800m for 927 points, 24 more than her series 800m had been worth, and finished 126 above it, the largest gain in the field and a personal best on the 4665 she scored in Aubière in January.
Xénia Krizsán (HUN) was third after every event from the high jump. She was 43 under her PB series after it, 1.77 costing 50, and clawed back through the shot and long jump to 24 under. The 800m settled it: 2.12.49 for 929 points, 37 above her series mark, and she finished 13 above the series, a personal best on the 4631 she scored in Beograd in March 2017.
Ivona Dadic (AUT) took fourth, 57 behind Krizsán, and the 800m produced the margin. She went into it 15 behind; Krizsán ran 929 points to her 887 and the gap became 57. Dadic's own competition was 180 under her PB series, and the high jump accounts for most of it: 1.77 for 941 points, 126 under the 1.87 in her series.
Four women beat their PB series, and each of those is a personal best: Vidts by 126, Paulina Ligarska (POL) by 79 in seventh, Thiam by 34 and Krizsán by 13. Nadine Broersen (NED), the second-ranked entrant on 4830 from Sopot in March 2014, finished tenth and 1274 under her series.
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