World Athletics Championships 1999 / women's heptathlon

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	21./22. August
	Medalists
	Eunice Barber ( FRA )
	Denise Lewis ( GBR )
	Ghada Shouaa ( SYR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The heptathlon for women in the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was on 21 and 22 August 1999 at the Olympic Stadium of the Spanish city of Seville discharged.

World champion was Eunice Barber , who completed her first competition for France here after having previously started for Sierra Leone . She had triumphed in the long jump at the 1995 African Games . In second place came the British vice world champion from 1997 , Olympic third from 1996 and reigning European champion Denise Lewis . Bronze went to the Syrian Olympic champion from 1996, world champion from 1995 and Asian champion from 1991 Ghada Shouaa . Only three points back was the two-time world champion ( 1991 /1997), two-time European champion ( 1990 / 1994 ) and Olympic bronze medalist of 1992 Sabine Braun of Germany on the medal loose fourth.

Existing records

World record	7291 P	United States Jackie Joyner-Kersee	OS in Seoul , South Korea	23/24 September 1988
World Cup record	7128 P	United States Jackie Joyner-Kersee	World Cup in Rome , Italy	August 31/1. September 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

execution

The seven disciplines of the heptathlon took place over two days, here is the schedule:

Day 1: August 21	100 meter hurdles	10:05 am	Day 2: August 22nd	Long jump	11:00 o'clock
	high jump	11:00 o'clock		Javelin throw	6:00 p.m. / 7:50 p.m.
	Shot put	6:15 pm		800 meter run	9:50 pm
	200 meter run	8:55 pm

The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Result

21./22. August 1999

space	Surname	nation	Points	100 m hurdles	High jump	Bullet poking	200 m	Status after day 1 (P)	Long jump	javelin throw	800 m
1	Eunice Barber	France France	6861	12.89 s 1141 P.	1.93 m 1145 p	12.37 m 686 P.	23.57 s 1022 P.	3994	6.86 m 1125 p	49.88 m 858 p	2: 15.65 min 884 P.
2	Denise Lewis	United Kingdom Great Britain	6724	13.61 s 1034 p	1.87 m 1067 p	16.12 m 936 p	24.26 s 956 P.	3993	6.64 m 1053 P	47.44 m 811 p	2: 16.87 min 867 P.
3	Ghada Shouaa	Syria Syria	6500	14.21 s 949 p	1.81 m 991 p	15.76 m 912 p	24.26 s 956 P.	3808	6.04 m 862 p	54.82 m 954 P.	2: 16.20 min 876 P.
4th	Sabine Braun	Germany Germany	6497	13.39 s 1066 p	1.81 m 991 p	14.67 m 839 p	24.33 s 949 p	3845	6.17 m 902 P.	51.59 m 891 p	2: 17.43 min 859 P.
5	Tiia Hautala	Finland Finland	6369	13.52 s 1047 P.	1.84 m 1029 p	13.77 m 779 p	24.87 s 899 p	3754	6.25 m 927 p	47.61 m 814 p	2: 16.31 min 874 P.
6th	Karin Ertl	Germany Germany	6317	13.83 s 1003 P.	1.84 m 1029 p	13.28 m 746 p	24.12 s 969 P.	3747	6.25 m 927 p	45.07 m 765 p	2: 16.08 min 878 P.
7th	Urszula Włodarczyk	Poland Poland	6287	13.83 s 1003 P.	1.84 m 1029 p	13.28 m 746 p	24.12 s 969 P.	3747	6.25 m 927 p	45.07 m 765 p	2: 16.08 min 878 P.
8th	Remigija Nazarovienė	Lithuania 1989 Lithuania	6262	13.71 s 1020 p	1.81 m 991 p	14.55 m 831 p	24.20 s 962 P.	3804	6.08 m 874 P.	43.27 m 730 p	2: 15.95 min 879 P.
9	Marie Collonvillé	France France	6188	13.70 s 1021 P.	1.87 m 1067 p	12.19 m 674 p	24.79 s 906 P.	3668	5.97 m 840 p	43.23 m 729 p	2: 10.90 min 951 P.
10	Natalia Roschtschupkina	Russia Russia	6175	14.01 s 977 P.	1.81 m 991 p	13.83 m 783 p	23.89 s 991 P.	3742	5.96 m 837 p	40.75 m 682 p	2: 13.52 min 914 p
11	Shelia Burrell	United States United States	6162	13.28 s 1083 P.	1.66 m 806 P	13.00 m 727 p	23.52 s 1027 P.	3643	5.86 m 807 P	45.35 m 770 p	2: 11.52 min 942 P.
12	Magalys García	Cuba Cuba	6159	13.79 s 1008 P.	1.72 m 879 p	14.09 m 800 p	23.98 s 983 P.	3670	5.73 m 768 p	49.82 m 857 p	2: 17.04 min 864 P.
13	Irina Vostrikova	Russia Russia	6153	13.76 s 1013 P.	1.75 m 916 p	15.42 m 889 p	25.71 s 823 P.	3641	6.09 m 877 p	48.12 m 824 p	2: 20.94 min 811 p
14th	Gertrud Bacher	Italy Italy	6055	14.02 s 976 P.	1.72 m 879 p	12.95 m 724 p	24.70 s 915 P.	3494	5.87 m 810 p	44.71 m 758 p	2: 08.09 min 993 P.
15th	Svetlana Kazanina	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	5993	14.25 s 943 p	1.75 m 916 p	12.77 m 712 p	24.80 s 905 P.	3476	5.85 m 804 P.	45.01 m 764 p	2: 11.07 min 949 p
16	Kateřina Nekolná	Czech Republic Czech Republic	5787	14.15 s 957 P.	1.63 m 771 P.	13.04 m 730 p	25.00 s 887 p	3345	5.73 m 768 p	46.59 m 794 p	2: 15.90 min 880 p
17th	Nicole Haynes	United States United States	5787	14.48 s 912 P.	1.75 m 916 p	14.80 m 848 p	25.25 s 864 P.	3540	5.67 m 750 p	37.72 m 624 p	2: 16.44 min 873 P.
18th	Catherine Bond-Mills	Canada Canada	5730	13.99 s 980 p	1.69 m 842 p	13.56 m 765 p	25.19 s 869 P.	3456	5.61 m 732 p	37.28 m 615 p	2: 12.57 min 927 p
DNF	Tiffany Lott-Hogan	United States United States	4003	DSQ 0 P	1.69 m 842 p	12.74 m 710 p	25.08 s 879 P.	2431	5.72 m 765 p	47.23 m 807 p	DNS
	Irina Belowa	Russia Russia	3769	13.45 s 1058 P.	1.78 m 953 p	13.30 m 747 P	23.69 s 1011 P.	3769	NM 0 P	DNS
	Rita Ináncsi	Hungary Hungary	3546	14.28 s 939 p	1.78 m 953 p	14.16 m 805 p	25.42 s 849 P.	3546	DNF 0 P	DNS
	Jane Jamieson	Australia Australia	2557	14.34 s 931 p	1.72 m 879 p	13.30 m 747 P	DNS	2557

World champion Eunice Barber, winner of the long jump at the 1995 African Games , achieved her first major success, which was to be followed by numerous others

Vice world champion Denise Lewis - she was vice world champion in 1997 , Olympic third in 1996 , European champion in 1998 and still had further successes ahead of her

Tiia Hautala (second from right) finished fifth

Marie Collonvillé came in ninth place
Kateřina Nekolná (here in 2014) reached sixteen

Video

Women's Heptathlon (incomplete) - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed August 3, 2020

Web links

7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
Women Heptathlon Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed August 3, 2020
Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Heptathlon, Seville 1999, p. 355 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 3, 2020

References and comments

↑ IAAF world records. Heptathlon women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 3, 2020

[1] IAAF world records. Heptathlon women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 3, 2020