2025-03 WC Nanjing - Women's Pentathlon
Saga Vanninen (FIN) won the women's pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing on 20 March 2025 with 4821 points, 101 under the personal best she had set in Apeldoorn a fortnight earlier. She led from the shot put onwards and the margin was 79.
| # | Athlete | Points | Behind | vs. PB series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saga Vanninen (FIN) | 4821 | -101 | |
| 2 | Kate O'Connor (IRL) | 4742 | -79 | -39 |
| 3 | Taliyah Brooks (USA) | 4669 | -152 | +89 |
| 4 | Vanessa Grimm (GER) | 4481 | -340 | -13 |
| 5 | Timara Chapman (USA) | 4476 | -345 | -79 |
| 6 | Szabina Szűcs (HUN) | 4438 | -383 | -150 |
| 7 | Célia Perron (FRA) | 4433 | -388 | -38 |
| 8 | Xénia Krizsán (HUN) | 4414 | -407 | -230 |
| 9 | Jana Koščak (CRO) | 4362 | -459 | -116 |
| 10 | Bianca Salming (SWE) | 4321 | -500 | -212 |
| 11 | Liu Jingyi (CHN) | 4171 | -650 | +138 |
| 12 | Yuliya Loban (UKR) | 4124 | -697 | -413 |
| 13 | Paulina Ligarska (POL) | 3586 | -1235 | -1029 |
| DNF | Camryn Newton-Smith (AUS) |
The shot put decided the lead. Timara Chapman (USA) had taken it after the high jump on 2066, 4 ahead of Taliyah Brooks (USA), with Vanninen third. Vanninen threw 15.81 for 915 points against Chapman's 13.23 for 743, moved to 2967 and a lead of 78, and held first place for the rest of the competition.
Vanninen was 25 under her own PB series after the hurdles, matched it exactly in the high jump at 1.81 for 991 points and went 17 above it in the shot. The long jump cost 49 at 6.37 against the 6.52 she jumped in Apeldoorn and the 800m 44. She finished 101 under the series, and the shortfall is spread across the three events that were not the shot.
Kate O'Connor (IRL) ran the same 8.30 in the hurdles as Vanninen for the same 1061 points and cleared the same 1.81 in the high jump. She was 14 under her PB series after the shot and 1 above it after 6.32 in the long jump, the closest anyone in the leading group came to matching their own series through four events. The 800m cost 40, and she finished 39 under.
Brooks took the opening hurdles with 8.09 for 1109 points. The shot put was where her competition was made: 14.39 for 820 points, 161 more than the 11.97 in her PB series and the largest single gain in the field, which took her from 67 under the series to 94 above it. The long jump gave 42 back and 2.19.67 in the 800m returned 37. Her 4669 was 89 above the series and a personal best on the 4580 she scored in College Station in March 2017.
Vanessa Grimm (GER) finished 188 behind Brooks in fourth. The gap was made early, 101 after the hurdles and 138 after the high jump, and the long jump took it to 204: 6.09 for 877 points against 959. Grimm ran 2.18.50 in the 800m for 844 points against 828 and closed 16 of it. Her own competition was 13 under her PB series, the closest balance in the field.
Two women finished above their PB series: Liu Jingyi (CHN) by 138 in eleventh and Brooks by 89, and both are personal bests. Paulina Ligarska (POL), the fourth-ranked entrant on 4615 from Toruń in February 2025, finished thirteenth and 1029 under her series, and Yuliya Loban (UKR) twelfth and 413 under.
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