World Athletics Championships: What events are in the heptathlon?

The scoring system uses a points table for each event.

Athletes earn points for their performance in every event. The winner is the competitor who has scored the most points overall, so a poor performance in one event can impact an athlete’s overall score.

Each event has a minimum recordable performance level.

Times, heights and distances achieved in these events are turned into points by a heptathlon score calculator.

To reach a 1,000 heptathlon points for an event, which is seen as a benchmark for a good score, the following results would need to be achieved:

The world record score for women’s heptathlon stands at 7291 by the USA’s Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988, and 6645 for men’s heptathlon was set by the USA’s Ashton Eaton in 2012.

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