Olympedia – Heptathlon, Women

Heptathlon, Women

Date	23 – 24 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	33 from 23 countries
Format	Scoring by 1985 point tables.

Date

23 – 24 September 2000

Status

Olympic

Location

Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Participants

33 from 23 countries

Format

Scoring by 1985 point tables.

The event was considered open because of injury problems to the leading contenders. Eunice Barber (FRA/SLE) had won the 1999 World Championships while defending champion Ghada Shouaa (SYR) was back but both were hampered by injuries and neither finished the hep. This left Denise Lewis (GBR), the bronze medalist from 1996, runner-up at the 1997 and 1999 Worlds, and 1998 European Champion, as the leading contender. The silver medalist from 1996, Nataliya )Natasha) Sazanovich (BLR), was also back. Sazanovich led after three events and the first day. She maintained the lead after the long jump, but it was close between her, Lewis, and Russia’s Yelena Prokhorova. But Lewis had by far the longest javelin throw among the leaders, and moved 63 points ahead of Sazanovich and 146 ahead of Prokhorova. Prokhorova was the best 800 runner among the three but could not catch Lewis, who won the gold medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Points	100 metres Hurdles	High Jump	Shot Put	200 metres	Long Jump	Javelin Throw	800 metres
1	1833	Denise Lewis	GBR	6584	–	13.23	1.75	15.55	24.34	6.48	50.19	2:16.83	Gold
2	2967	Yelena Prokhorova	RUS	6531	–	13.63	1.81	13.21	23.72	6.59	45.05	2:10.32	Silver
3	1244	Natasha Sazanovich	BLR	6527	–	13.45	1.84	14.79	24.12	6.50	43.97	2:16.41	Bronze
4	2742	Urszula Włodarczyk	POL	6470	–	13.33	1.78	14.45	24.29	6.31	46.16	2:12.15
5	1896	Sabine Braun	GER	6355	–	13.49	1.81	14.33	24.74	6.22	48.56	2:19.14
6	2971	Nataliya Roshchupkina	RUS	6237	–	13.70	1.84	14.03	23.53	5.47	43.87	2:12.24
7	1905	Karin Ertl	GER	6209	–	13.43	1.78	13.55	24.64	6.22	42.70	2:16.25
8	1699	Tiia Hautala	FIN	6173	–	13.62	1.78	13.31	25.00	6.12	45.40	2:14.90
9	3366	DeDee Nathan	USA	6150	–	13.74	1.78	14.22	24.84	6.06	43.48	2:16.67
10	1119	Jane Jamieson	AUS	6104	–	14.09	1.81	13.59	25.27	6.09	45.32	2:16.57
11	1493	Magalys García	CUB	6054	–	13.46	1.66	13.29	24.58	5.92	50.31	2:19.64
12	2500	Austra Skujytė	LTU	6034	–	14.37	1.78	15.09	25.35	5.97	45.43	2:20.25
13	1704	Susanna Rajamäki	FIN	6021	–	13.60	1.66	13.87	24.03	6.36	37.00	2:18.47
14	2224	Gertrud Bacher	ITA	5989	–	13.82	1.75	12.75	24.96	5.84	41.14	2:09.08
15	2946	Dina Koritskaya	RUS	5975	–	13.88	1.72	13.53	24.08	5.56	40.67	2:09.77
16	2353	Svetlana Kazanina	KAZ	5898	–	14.71	1.75	12.97	25.04	5.84	43.53	2:10.45
17	1022	Yasmina Azzizi	ALG	5896	–	13.64	1.60	14.17	24.59	5.88	46.28	2:21.82
18	2835	Viorica Țigău	ROU	5893	–	13.39	1.72	11.53	24.80	6.01	43.38	2:19.65
19	1766	Nathalie Teppe	FRA	5851	–	14.02	1.72	13.44	26.39	5.94	46.98	2:18.56
20	3236	Larysa Necheporuk	UKR	5762	–	14.53	1.72	13.56	25.76	5.89	44.57	2:19.94
21	2358	Irina Naumenko	KAZ	5634	–	14.26	1.84	11.26	25.19	5.88	32.53	2:18.49
22	3169	Marsha Mark-Baird	TTO	5627	–	13.72	1.66	11.44	25.35	5.90	48.99	2:32.36
23	3223	Liudmyla Blonska	UKR	5585	–	15.12	1.72	13.57	26.36	5.57	42.50	2:13.52
24	2106	Pramila Ganapathy	IND	5548	–	14.22	1.69	11.14	24.69	5.96	36.02	2:20.86
25	2104	Soma Biswas	IND	5481	–	14.11	1.63	11.69	24.73	5.64	39.59	2:22.17
26	3332	Shelia Burrell	USA	5345	–	13.30	–	13.32	24.01	6.05	43.72	2:12.22
27	3400	Sofiya Kabanova	UZB	5101	–	14.89	1.72	11.56	27.27	5.22	36.61	2:20.11
DNF	1750	Eunice Barber	FRA	–	–	12.97	1.84	11.27	24.47	5.93	–	–
DNF	1620	Inma Clopés	ESP	–	–	14.20	1.66	12.70	26.25	–	–	–
DNF	2008	Asimina Vanakara	GRE	–	–	14.19	1.69	10.74	25.78	–	–	–
DNF	2072	Rita Ináncsi	HUN	–	–	15.11	1.69	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1922	Astrid Retzke	GER	–	–	13.92	1.57	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	3118	Ghada Shouaa	SYR	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Pos

Athlete

NOC

Points

100 metres Hurdles

High Jump

Shot Put

200 metres

Long Jump

Javelin Throw

800 metres

1833