The American Anna Hall has published a heptathlon score improved by one person in history – her mentor Jackie Joyner -Kersee.
Hall won the famous Hypo meeting in Götzis, Austria, with 7,032 points on Saturday and Sunday – from fifth to second row on the list of all time.
“The last heptathlon I made before it broke my heart,” Hall said about his fifth place at the Paris Olympic Games, According to world athletics. “But I have the impression that this heptathlon healed him.”
Hall recorded personal records out of four of the seven events, including a height jump authorization of 1.95 meters. It was the bronze-medal height in the high jump to the Paris Olympic Games.
Joyner-Kersee, Olympic gold medalist from 1988 and 1992, holds the world record of 7,291
points and the six best scores in history as a whole.
Hall equaled the Swedish Carolina Klüft, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist, which also marked 7,032.
The best hall of hall was 6,988 in Götzis in 2023.
During the two years between the two victories of Hall Götzis, she won the money at the 2023 world championships – 20 points behind Brit Katarina Johnson -Thompson, the heptathlon closest to the history of the world championships – while competing with a knee injury.
After knee surgery January 2024, she competed in Paris on a knee which, according to her, was strong, but not without pain. Belgian Nafi Thiam won an unprecedented third consecutive gold during the competition for seven events.
Neither Johnson-Thompson nor Thiam participated in Götzis.
In September, Hall can become the second American to win a world title in the heptathlon after Joyner-Kersee, which did it in 1987 and 1993.
I have no words. We are so long back 🥹❤️🔥
– Anna Hall (@annaahalll) June 1, 2025