Women Heptathlon Athletics XVII Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 2000 - 23rd and 24th September - Gold Medal:
Final
Team
Pts
100mH
High
Shot
200m
Long
Javel.
800m
1. Denise Lewis
GBR
6584
2. Yelena Prokhorova
RUS
6531
3. Natalya Sazanovich
BLR
6527
4. Urszula Wlodarczyk
POL
6470
5. Sabine Braun
GER
6355
6. Natalya Roshchupkina
RUS
6237
7. Karin Specht-Ertl
GER
6209
8. Tiia Hautala
FIN
6173
9. Le Shundra Nathan
USA
6150
10.Jane Jamieson
AUS
6104
11.Magalys Garcia
CUB
6054
12.Austra Skujyte
LIT
6034
13.Susanna Rajamaki
FIN
6021
14.Gertrud Bacher
ITA
5989
15.Diana Koritskaya
RUS
5975
16.Svetlana Kazanina
KZK
5898
17.Yasmina Azzizi
ALG
5896
18.Viorica Tigau
ROM
5893
19.Nathalie Teppe
FRA
5851
20.Larisa Teteryuk-Netseporuk
UKR
5762
21.Irina Naumenko
KZK
5634
22.Marsha Mark
TRI
5627
23.Lyudmila Kovalenko-Blonskaya
UKR
5585
24.G.Pramila Ganapathy
IND
5548
25.Soma Biswas
IND
5481
26.Shelia Burrell
USA
5345
27.Sofiya Kabanova
UZB
5101
-. Eunice Barber
FRA
DNF
-. Inma Clopes
ESP
DNF
-. Asimina Vanakara
GRE
DNF
-. Rita Inancsi
HUN
DNF
-. Astrid Retzke
GER
DNF
-. Ghada Shouaa
SYR
DNF
World Champion Eunice Barber and Denise Lewis were the most high-
ly regarded from their scores of 6842 and 6831 earlier in the season,
but Barber was injured in July, and the third possible winner – reigning
champion Ghada Shouaa – also had injury problems. Shouaa failed to
finish the hurdles, but Barber ran an event-leading 12.97, backing it up
with 1.84 to share the high jump lead.
Things then went downhill for the Frenchwoman as she put 11.27
against Lewis’s 15.55. She was then more than a second down on her
200m best and retired injured after one poor long jump on the second
day. Sazanovich had led from the shot on, heading the field with 3903
after day one, with Roshchupkina (3872) and Lewis (3852) the closest.
The leading Russian fell out of contention with disastrous long jump
contest, having two fouls and a paltry 5.47. Sazanovich was finally
caught in the javelin, where Lewis threw more than 6m further than the
Belarusian to gain 120 points. Prokhorova ran 6.09 seconds faster than
Sazanovich in the 800m to slip four points past her, while Lewis
improved two places from her Atlanta finish to take her first global
title.