2023-07 EC U23 Espoo FIN - Women's Heptathlon
Saga Vanninen (FIN) won the women's heptathlon at the European U23 Championships in Espoo on 8 July 2023 with 6317 points, 74 under the personal best she set at Götzis in May of the same year. The lead changed hands five times in the first five events.
| # | Athlete | Points | Behind | vs. PB series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saga Vanninen (FIN) | 6317 | -74 | |
| 2 | Sofie Dokter (NED) | 6256 | -61 | -65 |
| 3 | Pippi Lotta Enok (EST) | 6002 | -315 | -163 |
| 4 | Julia Słocka (POL) | 5890 | -427 | +1 |
| 5 | Chiara-Belinda Schuler (AUT) | 5799 | -518 | -117 |
| 6 | Edyta Bielska (POL) | 5737 | -580 | -325 |
| 7 | Katelyn Adel (SUI) | 5720 | -597 | +44 |
| 8 | Szabina Szűcs (HUN) | 5709 | -608 | +35 |
| 9 | Marie Dehning (GER) | 5702 | -615 | -250 |
| 10 | Noemie Desailly (FRA) | 5695 | -622 | +49 |
| 11 | Jenna Fee Feyerabend (GER) | 5691 | -626 | -61 |
| 12 | Vilma Itälinna (FIN) | 5669 | -648 | -34 |
| 13 | Neea Käyhkö (FIN) | 5581 | -736 | -19 |
| 14 | Jodie Smith (GBR) | 5489 | -828 | -509 |
| 15 | Elena Debelic (SUI) | 5465 | -852 | -338 |
| 16 | Krista Sprūde (LAT) | 5434 | -883 | -224 |
| 17 | Pauline Bikembo (FRA) | 5423 | -894 | -397 |
| 18 | Karla Schärfe (DEN) | 5365 | -952 | -182 |
| 19 | Anastasía Dragomírova (GRE) | 5293 | -1024 | -343 |
| 20 | Olivija Vaitaityte (LTU) | 5258 | -1059 | -512 |
| 21 | Kristīne Blaževiča (LAT) | 4772 | -1545 | |
| 22 | Sophia Mulder (NED) | 4668 | -1649 | -958 |
| DNF | Angel Richmore (SWE) |
The long jump decided it. Sofie Dokter (NED) had taken the lead back over 200m and closed day 1 on 3839 with 13 in hand. Vanninen jumped 6.02 for 856 points, Dokter 5.95 for 834, and the standing turned over to 4682 and 9. The javelin took it to 100 and the 800m closed it at 61.
Vanninen was second at the day break on 3826 and 12 under her own PB series, having lost 37 in the high jump and taken 25 back with 15.36 in the shot for 885 points. Day 2 opened with the long jump, which gave her the lead and was still 129 under her series mark, the largest single loss on her sheet. The javelin returned 77 at 46.55 for 793 points, and 2.18.67 in the 800m cost 10. She finished 74 under the series.
Dokter was eighth after the hurdles, 64 under her PB series, and the high jump reversed that in one event: 1.89 for 1093 points, 115 above her series mark, which took her to the lead and 51 above it. She was first at the day break on 3839 and 47 above the series. Day 2 lost 112: 90 in the long jump at 5.95 against a 6.24 series mark, 26 in the javelin. She finished 65 under and 61 behind.
Pippi Lotta Enok (EST) was third at the day break on 3549 and 18 under her PB series, having lost 42 in the hurdles and recovered through the high jump and 200m. Day 2 lost 145: 90 in the long jump and 56 in the javelin. She held third by 112 and finished 163 under the series.
Julia Słocka (POL) took fourth. The long jump opened the gap to third, Enok's 853 points against 774, which turned 45 into 124, and the javelin returned 39 of it. Słocka closed with 2.19.22 in the 800m for 834 points, 70 above her own series mark and the largest single gain on her sheet, which took her from 69 under the series to 1 above it, a personal best on the 5889 she scored in Warszawa in June 2021.
Four women finished above their PB series, and each of those is a personal best: Noemie Desailly (FRA) by 49 in tenth, Katelyn Adel (SUI) by 44 in seventh, Szabina Szűcs (HUN) by 35 in eighth and Słocka by 1. Sophia Mulder (NED), twenty-second, finished 958 under her series, Olivija Vaitaityte (LTU) 512 under in twentieth and Jodie Smith (GBR), the sixth-ranked entrant, 509 under in fourteenth.
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