1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	3rd / 4th August 1984
Medalists Glynis Nunn ( AUS )   Jackie Joyner ( USA )   Sabine Everts ( FRG )

The heptathlon for women in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was on 3 and 4 August 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum discharged. 23 athletes took part, twenty of them finished the competition. The heptathlon was first played as part of the Olympic Games and replaced the women's pentathlon . A 1977 modified all-round table was used to determine the points.

The first Olympic champion was the Australian Glynis Nunn . She won ahead of the Americans Jackie Joyner and Sabine Everts from the Federal Republic of Germany.

With Sabine Braun and Birgit Dressel , two other athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany started. Braun finished sixth in the final ranking, Dressel ninth.
The Swiss Corinne Schneider was tenth, the Liechtensteiner Manuela Marxer 20.
All-around fighters from Austria did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1980	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held
World Champion 1983	Ramona Neubert ( GDR )	6714 points	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982		6664 points	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Conceição Geremias ( Brazil )	6084 points	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983	Victoria Despaigne ( Cuba )	5469 points	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Conceição Geremias ( Brazil )	5865 points	Santa Fe 1983
Asian Champion 1983	HIsako Hashimoto ( Japan )	5486 points	Kuwait City 1983
African champion 1982	Chérifa Meskaoui ( Morocco )	5353 points	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	6867 points	Sabine Paetz ( GDR )	Potsdam	May 6, 1984
Olympic record	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held

Participants

23 athletes from 14 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Jodi Anderson	United States
Chantal Beaugeant	France
Sabine Braun	BR Germany
Birgit Dressel	BR Germany
Sabine Everts	BR Germany
Conceição Geremias	Brazil
Cindy Greiner	United States
Kim Hagger	Great Britain
Jantien Hidding	Netherlands
Jackie Joyner	United States
Iamo Launa	Papua New Guinea
Manuela Marxer	Liechtenstein
Glynis Nunn	Australia
Florence Picaut	France
Connie Polman-Tuin	Canada
Jill Ross-Giffen	Canada
Corinne Schneider	Switzerland
Judy Simpson	Great Britain
Donna Smellie	Canada
Annette Tånnander	Sweden
Kristine Tånnander	Sweden
Li-Jiau Tsai	Chinese Taipei
Marjon Wijnsma	Netherlands

Conducting the competition

The heptathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The seven disciplines took place over two days, four of them on the first and three of them on the second day. The evaluation was based on the points table for the 1977 women's all-around competition.

Time schedule

August 3, 1984: 100-meter hurdles , high jump , shot put , 200-meter run

4th August 1984: long jump , javelin throw , 800-meter run

Disciplines

Note: In the shot put and javelin throw as well as in the long jump , the respective best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid and therefore best attempt is printed in bold.

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Glynis Nunn achieved the fastest time in the 100 meter hurdles with 13.02 seconds that was run in an Olympic all-around competition.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Well 13.02 s 999 02 Simpson 13.07 s 992 03 Hagger 13.39 s 946 04th Everts 13.54 s 926 05 brown 13.61 s 916 06th Joyner 13.63 s 914 07th Hidding 13.70 s 905 08th Greiner 13.71 s 903 09 Ross handles 13.72 s 902 10 Beaugeant 13.81 s 890 11 Picaut 13.83 s 888 12 Wijnsma 13.93 s 875 13 Geremias 13.98 s 868 14th K. Tånnander 14.01 s 865 15th Dressel 14.05 s 860 16 A. Tånnander 14.06 s 858 17th Smellie 14.09 s 855 18th cutter 14.12 s 851 19th Polman-Tuin 14.18 s 843 20th Anderson 14.40 s 817 21st Tsai 14.78 s 773 22nd Marxer 15.18 s 729 23 Launa 15.43 s 702

high jump

Sabine Everts achieved the highest height in the high jump in an Olympic all-round competition with 1.89 m . She then had three failed attempts over 1.92 m.

Classification space Surname 1.41 m 1.47 m 1.50 m 1.53 m 1.56 m 1.59 m 1.62 m 1.65 m 1.68 m 1.71 m 1.74 m 1.77 m 1.80 m 1.83 m 1.86 m 1.89 m Points 01 Everts - - - - - - - - - O O O O O O xx o 1113 02 Dressel - - - - - - - - - - O O O xo xx o xxx 1086 Hagger - - - - - - - O - O xo O O xo xx o xxx cutter - - - - - - - - O O xo O O O O xxx Simpson - - - - - - - - - O O xo O O x o xxx 06th Greiner - - - - - - O O - O O O xxo x o xxx 1059 A. Tånnander - - - - - - - - - O O xo xo O xxx Wijnsma - - - - - - - - - O O O xo xx o xxx 09 brown - - - - - - O O O xo O xo x o xxx 1031 Joyner - - - - - - - - O xo O xo xx o xxx Well - - - - - - O O O O O O O xxx Picaut - - - - - - - O O O O xo O xxx K. Tånnander - - - - - - - - O xo O xxo O xxx 14th Geremias - - - - - - O xo O O O xxx 974 Hidding - - - - - - O O O xo xx o xxx Tsai - - - - - - O O O xo O xxx 17th Beaugeant - - - - - - O O O xxx 915 Ross-Giffen - - - - - - O O O xxx Smellie - - - - - O O O O xxx 20th Anderson - - - - - - xo xx o xxx 885 21st Marxer - - O O O O x o xxx 854 22nd Polman-Tuin - - - xxo O xxx 791 23 Launa xo O xo xx o xxx 759 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Simpson 2078 02 Everts 2039 03 Hagger 2032 04th Well 2030 05 Greiner 1962 06th brown 1947 07th Dressel 1946 08th Joyner 1945 09 cutter 1937 10 Wijnsma 1934 11 Picaut 1919 12 A. Tånnander 1917 13 K. Tånnander 1896 14th Hidding 1879 15th Geremias 1842 16 Ross-Giffen 1817 17th Beaugeant 1805 18th Smellie 1770 19th Tsai 1747 20th Anderson 1702 21st Polman-Tuin 1634 22nd Marxer 1583 23 Launa 1461

Shot put

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Joyner 14.39 m 13.44 m 12.77 m 861 02 Simpson 13.86 m 12.27 m 13.25 m 830 03 Hidding 13.17 m 13.48 m 12.45 m 808 04th Greiner 13.26 m 13.36 m 12.44 m 801 05 Polman-Tuin 11.85 m 12.60 m 13.16 m 789 Geremias x 12.88 m 13.15 m 07th Picaut 12.89 m x 13.08 m 785 08th Well x 12.44 m 12.82 m 769 09 K. Tånnander 11.77 m 11.64 m 12.74 m 764 10 Dressel 12.72 m 12.51 m 12.39 m 763 11 Wijnsma 12.57 m 11.97 m 11.68 m 754 12 Everts 11.48 m 12.29 m 12.49 m 749 13 A. Tånnander 12.37 m 12.09 m 12.16 m 742 14th Hagger 11.19 m 11.19 m 12.29 m 737 15th cutter 12.26 m 12.19 m 11.34 m 735 16 Smellie 12.18 m 11.01 m 12.25 m 734 17th brown 12.09 m x 11.56 m 725 18th Launa x x 11.85 m 710 19th Tsai 11.73 m 11.49 m 11.69 m 702 20th Ross-Giffen 11.17 m 11.71 m 11.31 m 701 21st Beaugeant 11.36 m 11.06 m 11.36 m 679 22nd Anderson 11.02 m 10.94 m 10.71 m 657 23 Marxer 10.63 m x 10.44 m 631

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Simpson 2908 02 Joyner 2806 03 Well 2799 04th Everts 2788 05 Hagger 2769 06th Greiner 2763 07th Dressel 2709 08th Picaut 2704 09 Wijnsma 2688 10 Hidding 2687 11 brown 2672 cutter 13 K. Tånnander 2660 14th A. Tånnander 2659 15th Geremias 2631 16 Ross-Giffen 2518 17th Smellie 2504 18th Beaugeant 2484 19th Tsai 2449 20th Polman-Tuin 2423 21st Anderson 2359 22nd Marxer 2214 23 Launa 2171

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Jodi Anderson did not take part in this fourth discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Everts 24.05 s 950 Joyner 03 Well 24.06 s 932 04th Hidding 24.12 s 926 05 brown 24.22 s 917 06th Greiner 24.40 s 900 07th Polman-Tuin 24.68 s 875 08th Hagger 24.72 s 871 09 Wijnsma 24.91 s 854 10 Simpson 24.95 s 851 11 Geremias 25.00 s 846 12 K. Tånnander 25.03 s 844 13 Picaut 25.09 s 839 14th Ross-Giffen 25.22 s 827 15th Smellie 25.29 s 821 16 cutter 25.33 s 818 17th Tsai 25.41 s 811 18th Dressel 25.59 s 796 19th Beaugeant 25.84 s 775 20th Launa 26.26 s 741 21st A. Tånnander 26.40 s 730 22nd Marxer 26.80 s 699

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Simpson 3759 02 Joyner 3739 03 Well 3731 04th Everts 3721 05 Greiner 3663 06th Hagger 3640 07th Hidding 3613 08th brown 3589 09 PIcaut 3543 10 Wijnsma 3542 11 Dressel 3505 12 K. Tånnander 3504 13 cutter 3490 14th Geremias 3477 15th A. Tånnander 3389 16 Ross-Giffen 3345 17th Smellie 3325 18th Polman-Tuin 3298 19th Tsai 3260 20th Beaugeant 3259 21st Marxer 2913 22nd Launa 2912

Long jump

Chantal Beaugeant did not compete in this fifth discipline.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Everts 6.58 m 6.71 m x 1058 02 Well 6.52 m 6.66 m 6.58 m 1047 03 Hagger 6.25 m 6.37 m x 986 04th Hidding 6.12 m 6.17 m 6.35 m 982 05 Simpson 6.14 m 6.07 m 6.33 m 978 06th A. Tånnander 6.27 m x 6.27 m 965 07th Dressel 6.15 m 5.96 m 5.90 m 939 Greiner 6.15 m 6.14 m 6.03 m 09 Joyner x x 6.11 m 930 10 brown 6.05 m 6.10 m 6.07 m 928 11 Wijnsma 6.06 m 6.04 m 5.89 m 919 12 Smellie 5.93 m 5.58 m 6.04 m 915 13 Ross-Giffen 5.77 m 5.70 m 6.00 m 906 14th Picaut 5.70 m 5.52 m 5.92 m 888 15th Polman-Tuin 5.82 m 5.79 m 5.89 m 882 16 cutter x 5.72 m 5.67 m 844 17th Geremias 5.65 m 5.55 m 5.65 m 828 18th A. Tånnander 5.29 m 5.41 m 5.57 m 810 Tsai 5.43 m 5.57 m 5.51 m 20th Marxer 4.91 m 4.74 m 5.08 m 696 21st Launa 4.98 m 4.79 m 5.04 m 686

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Everts 4779 02 Well 4778 03 Simpson 4737 04th Joyner 4669 05 Hagger 4626 06th Greiner 4602 07th Hidding 4595 08th brown 4517 09 Wijnsma 4461 10 Dressel 4444 11 Picaut 4431 12 A. Tånnander 4354 13 cutter 4334 14th K. Tånnander 4314 15th Geremias 4305 16 Ross-Giffen 4251 17th Smellie 4240 18th Polman-Tuin 4180 19th Tsai 4070 20th Marxer 3609 21st Launa 3598

Javelin throw

Corinne Schneider achieved the largest javelin throw at 46.60 m in an Olympic all- around competition.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 cutter 45.24 m 46.60 m 45.44 m 865 02 Launa 44.16 m 46.50 m 45.36 m 864 03 Joyner 39.78 m 40.70 m 44.52 m 835 04th brown 44.14 m 42.96 m 40.04 m 829 05 Dressel 37.62 m 38.90 m 42.62 m 806 06th K. Tånnander 40.86 m 42.34 m 41.30 m 802 07th A. Tånnander 41.46 m x 41.34 m 789 08th Greiner 39.36 m 36.78 m 40.86 m 779 09 Ross-Giffen 35.64 m 38.34 m 39.38 m 756 10 Polman-Tuin 36.36 m 35.74 m 35.36 m 708 11 Well 35.46 m 35.58 m 35.36 m 695 12 Hagger 33.86 m 34.70 m 35.42 m 692 13 Picaut 31.52 m 34.86 m x 683 14th Wijnsma 34.12 m x x 671 15th Smellie 30.70 m 34.08 m 32.48 m 670 16 Hidding 31.82 m 33.94 m x 668 17th Marxer 32.94 m 33.62 m 33.84 m 666 18th Simpson 30.62 m 31.78 m 33.64 m 662 19th Tsai 30.28 m 32.56 m 32.84 m 649 20th Everts x 30.96 m 32.62 m 645 - Geremias x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner 5504 02 Well 5473 03 Everts 5424 04th Simpson 5399 05 Greiner 5381 06th brown 5346 07th Hagger 5318 08th Hidding 5263 09 Dressel 5250 10 cutter 5199 11 A. Tånnander 5143 12 Wijnsma 5132 13 K. Tånnander 5116 14th Picaut 5114 15th Ross-Giffen 5007 16 Smellie 4910 17th Polman-Tuin 4888 18th Tsai 4719 19th Launa 4462 20th Geremias 4305 21st Marxer 4275

800 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Conceição Geremias did not participate in this last discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Everts 2: 09.05 min 939 02 Well 2: 10.57 min 917 03 Greiner 2: 11.75 min 900 04th Ross-Giffen 2: 11.97 min 897 05 brown 2: 12.48 min 890 06th Hidding 2: 12.84 min 884 07th Wijnsma 2: 12.91 min 883 08th Simpson 2: 13.01 min 881 09 Joyner 2: 13.03 min 881 10 K. Tånnander 2: 13.93 min 869 11 cutter 2: 15.89 min 843 12 Dressel 2: 16.68 min 832 13 Hagger 2: 18.44 min 809 14th Picaut 2: 19.17 min 800 15th A. Tånnander 2: 22.00 min 765 16 Polman-Tuin 2: 22.34 min 760 17th Tsai 2: 25.03 min 728 18th Smellie 2: 25.10 min 728 19th Launa 2: 28.85 min 684 20th Marxer 2: 33.17 min 638

Course and final result

Due to the Olympic boycott of numerous countries, three top athletes from the GDR were missing in particular: the world champion from 1983 , Ramona Neubert, former Ramona Göhler, the world record holder Sabine Paetz, former Sabine Möbius, and Anke Vater, third in the World Cup in 1983, later successful under the Name Anke Behmer. More top class heptathletes from the boycott states - u. a. the Soviet World Cup - fourth Valentina Dimitrova - were also not there. Overall, the value of this competition was significantly impaired by the absence of these world class athletes. The best female heptathlete who did not come from the Soviet Union or the GDR was US athlete Jane Frederick , who was unable to participate due to an injury.

In the first competition, the 100 meter hurdles , the Australian Glynis Nunn shone with 13.02 seconds. She had also taken part in the individual competition of this discipline and finished fifth in the Olympics with 13.20 seconds. The Briton Judy Simpson was not far behind with 13.07 s. Nunn led with 999 points just ahead of Simpson, the Briton Kim Hagger and the two German Germans Sabine Everts and Sabine Braun. Jackie Joyner had 914 points in sixth. In the high jump , the second exercise, Everts was particularly strong. At 1.89 m, she achieved the greatest height in the high jump that has ever been mastered in an Olympic all-around competition. The other heptathletes, who had occupied places one to six in the intermediate ranking, also impressed with excellent jumps. Hagger and Simpson each managed 1.86 m, Braun, Joyner and Nunn each managed 1.86 m. So the gaps stayed very close. Simpson was leading with 2078 points, Everts was second, 39 points behind. The Americans Cindy Greiner - 1.83 m - and Birgit Dressel, BR Germany - 1.86 m - worked their way up as fifth and seventh. Joyner was now eighth, 133 points behind first place. It continued with the shot put , in which the athletes from the boycott states had presented themselves particularly strongly in earlier competitions. Here in Los Angeles , Joyner hit the ball furthest at 14.39 m. The closest to her was Simpson with 13.89 m. This now took over the lead with 2908 points in front of Joyner, Nunn and Everts. There were now 120 points between the first and fourth. In the 200-meter run that concluded the first day, the best were again very close behind one another. Joyner and Everts ran 24.05 s each as fastest, Nunn had 24.06 s, the Dutch Jantien Hidding 24.12 s next. At the end of the first day Simpson was still leading with 3759 points, ahead of Joyner - 3739 points, Nunn - 3731 points - and Everts - 3721 points. Everything had moved closer together and Greiner, Hagger and Hidding in the next places were still promising in the race. The gap between the first and the seventh was just 146 points.

In the long jump - discipline number five - Everts reached 6.71 m. This would have placed her in sixth place in the special competition here in Los Angeles. The long jump seventh Nunn also achieved an excellent performance with 6.66 m and exceeded her distance from the individual competition by thirteen centimeters. Behind them, Hagger, Hidding and Simpson each achieved results of more than 6.30 m. In the interim standings Everts was now ahead with 4779 points, but was only one point ahead of Nunn. Simpson followed another 41 points. Behind were Joyner, Hagger, Greiner and Hidding in that order. The Dutchwoman was now 184 points behind the leading Everts, who lost a lot of ground with a poor performance in the penultimate exercise, the javelin throw . With a throw of less than 33 meters, she was almost fourteen meters behind Joyner, who with 44.52 m was the third best distance behind the Swiss Corinne Schneider - 46.90 m - and Iamo Launa from Papua New Guinea - 46.50 m - scored. With this, Joyner took the lead with 5504 points before the final 800-meter run, ahead of Nunn - 31 points back - and Everts - 80 points behind. Joyner's lead over Simpson in fourth place was 105 and Greiner in fifth was 123 points. Although Everts had achieved the best 800 m times in the run-up, it was almost impossible for her to get to the top. The choice would be between Joyner and Nunn. Sabine Everts ran an excellent and at the same time the fastest time of the heptathletes with 2: 09.05 min. With that she had won the bronze medal and missed gold by just 22 points. Glynis Nunn scored 2: 10.57 minutes, making her the first female Olympic champion in this new competition. The mark for her Olympic record was 6390 points. That was only five points more than what silver medalist Jackie Joyner achieved. Their 800 meter time of 2: 13.03 minutes was just a minimum too slow for Olympic gold. The gaps between the next placed athletes were slightly larger. Cindy Greiner was fourth - 109 points behind the winner, fifth place for Judy Simpson - 108 points back, sixth place for Sabine Braun - 154 points back.

For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1977, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1981 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been some decisive changes:

• Sabine Everts would be first instead of third.
• Gold medalist Glynis Nunn and second-placed Jackie Joyner would each have moved down one rank.
• The fourth placed Cindy Greiner and Judy Simpson in fifth would have swapped places.
• Tineke Hidding, rank seven, and Kim Hagger, rank eight, would also have swapped places.
• The places of Florence Picaut - thirteenth - and Annette Tånnander - fourteenth - would also be swapped.
• Seventeenth Donna Smellie would have moved up to sixteenth, conversely Connie Polman-Tuin would have slipped from sixteenth to seventeenth.

Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1981 rating
1	Glynis Nunn	Australia	6390 first OR	6329
2	Jackie Joyner	United States	6385	6306
3	Sabine Everts	BR Germany	6363	6331
4th	Cindy Greiner	United States	6281	6191
5	Judy Simpson	Great Britain	6280	6206
6th	Sabine Braun	BR Germany	6236	6138
7th	Jantien Hidding	Netherlands	6147	6028
8th	Kim Hagger	Great Britain	6127	6045
9	Birgit Dressel	BR Germany	6082	5998
10	Corinne Schneider	Switzerland	6042	5934
11	Marjon Wijnsma	Netherlands	6015	5887
12	Kristine Tånnander	Sweden	5985	5833
13	Florence Picaut	France	5914	5765
14th	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	5908	5806
15th	Jill Ross-Giffen	Canada	5904	5742
16	Connie Polman-Tuin	Canada	5648	5447
17th	Donna Smellie	Canada	5638	5451
18th	Li-Jiau Tsai	Chinese Taipei	5447	5220
19th	Iamo Launa	Papua New Guinea	5148	4884
20th	Manuela Marxer	Liechtenstein	4913	4610

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 54f

Web links

• SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed January 18, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 268f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 18, 2018

Video

• 1984 Olympics Day 8 Track & Field Womens Heptathlon Gold Medalist Glynis Nunn imasportsphile , published January 8, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed January 18, 2018
• 1984 Olympic Games - Heptathlon - 100 Meter Hurdles , published August 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 18, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 (English), accessed on January 18, 2018
2. ↑ SportsReference heptathlon (100 m hurdles) , accessed on January 18, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference Heptathlon (high jump) , accessed on January 18, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference Heptathlon (javelin throw) , accessed January 18, 2018