2024-08 OG Paris - Women's Heptathlon
Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) won the women's heptathlon at the Paris Olympics with 6880 points, 133 under the personal best she set at Götzis in May 2017. The lead changed hands five times and the margin was 36.
| # | Athlete | Points | Behind | vs. PB series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) | 6880 | -133 | |
| 2 | Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) | 6844 | -36 | -137 |
| 3 | Noor Vidts (BEL) | 6707 | -173 | +111 |
| 4 | Annik Kälin (SUI) | 6639 | -241 | +124 |
| 5 | Anna Hall (USA) | 6615 | -265 | -373 |
| 6 | Sofie Dokter (NED) | 6452 | -428 | +34 |
| 7 | Martha Valeria Araujo (COL) | 6386 | -494 | +57 |
| 8 | Emma Oosterwegel (NED) | 6386 | -494 | -204 |
| 9 | Xénia Krizsán (HUN) | 6386 | -494 | -265 |
| 10 | Jade O'Dowda (GBR) | 6280 | -600 | -34 |
| 11 | Taliyah Brooks (USA) | 6258 | -622 | -150 |
| 12 | Adrianna Sułek (POL) | 6226 | -654 | -446 |
| 13 | Sveva Gerevini (ITA) | 6220 | -660 | -159 |
| 14 | Kate O'Connor (IRL) | 6167 | -713 | -130 |
| 15 | Saga Vanninen (FIN) | 6163 | -717 | -228 |
| 16 | Auriana Lazraq-Khlass (FRA) | 6110 | -770 | -525 |
| 17 | Carolin Schäfer (GER) | 6084 | -796 | -752 |
| 18 | Rita Nemes (HUN) | 6060 | -820 | -216 |
| 19 | Camryn Newton-Smith (AUS) | 5982 | -898 | -198 |
| 20 | Tori West (AUS) | 5848 | -1032 | -397 |
| 21 | Chari Hawkins (USA) | 5255 | -1625 | -1201 |
| DNF | Sophie Weißenberg (GER) | |||
| DNF | Anouk Vetter (NED) |
The javelin decided it. Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) had led the 200m and the long jump and stood 5030 with 45 on Thiam. Thiam threw 54.04 for 939 points, Johnson-Thompson 45.49 for 773, and the lead changed to 5924 and 121. The 800m brought it down to 36 without changing it.
Thiam was sixteenth after the hurdles and second at the day break on 4007, 49 under her own PB series. The shot had returned 69 at 15.54 for 897 points against 79 lost in the high jump. Day 2 lost 84 more: 49 in the long jump and 102 in the javelin, which was still the throw that took the lead and was 5.28 short of her own best-day mark. She closed with 2.10.62 in the 800m for 956 points, 67 above her series mark, and finished 133 under.
Johnson-Thompson led three of the seven events and closed day 1 first on 4055 and 83 under her PB series, with 23.44 over 200m for 1035 points. Day 2 turned on the long jump: 6.40 for 975 points was 120 under her series mark, the largest single loss on her sheet, and it still kept her in front. The javelin cost her the lead and 2.04.90 in the 800m for 1041 points closed 85 of the 121. She finished 137 under the series and 36 behind.
Noor Vidts (BEL) was fourth after four of the first five events and never above 47 or below 9 against her own PB series through them. Day 2 made the difference: 45.00 in the javelin for 763 points, 55 above her series mark, and 2.06.38 in the 800m for 1018 points, 44 above it, which moved her from fourth to third. Her 6707 was 111 above the series and a personal best on the 6596 she scored in Rome in June.
Annik Kälin (SUI) took the opening hurdles with 12.87 for 1144 points and finished 68 behind Vidts in fourth. She was third after the javelin and 5 ahead; the 800m produced the margin, Vidts running 1018 points to her 945. Kälin's own competition was 124 above her PB series, the largest gain in the field, with 54 from the hurdles and 27 from the javelin against 46 lost in the long jump.
Four women finished above their PB series, and each of those is a personal best: Kälin by 124, Vidts by 111, Martha Valeria Araujo (COL) by 57 in seventh and Sofie Dokter (NED) by 34 in sixth. Chari Hawkins (USA), twenty-first, finished 1201 under her series, Carolin Schäfer (GER), the fifth-ranked entrant, seventeenth and 752 under, and Auriana Lazraq-Khlass (FRA) sixteenth and 525 under.
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