2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	20./21. August 2004
Medalists Carolina Klüft ( SWE )   Austra Skujytė ( LTU )   Kelly Sotherton ( GBR )

The heptathlon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was played on August 20 and 21, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part.

Carolina Klüft from Sweden became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Austra Skujytė from Lithuania and the Briton Kelly Sotherton .

With Sonja Kesselschläger , Claudia Tonn and Karin Ertl , three German participants started. Kesselschläger finished sixth, Tonn twelfth and Ertl came seventeenth. Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Denise Lewis ( Great Britain )	6584 P	2000
World Champion 2003	Carolina Klüft ( Sweden )	7001 P	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Carolina Klüft ( Sweden )	6542 P	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Tiffany Lott-Hogan ( USA )	6064 P	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Competition not held		St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Thaimara Rivas ( Venezuela )	5622 P	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Irina Naumenko ( Kazakhstan )	5845 P	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Margaret Simpson ( Ghana )	6154 P	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Competition not held		Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	7291 points	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	Seoul , South Korea	September 24, 1988
Olympic record			Seoul Heptathlon , South Korea

Conducting the competition

The heptathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The seven disciplines took place over two days. The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Remarks:

• All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• In the shot put , javelin throw and long jump , the respective best distances are printed in bold.
• In the high jump , the last valid attempt of each athlete is printed in bold.

Participants

34 athletes from 20 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Yulia Akulenko	Ukraine
Anzhela Atroshchenko	Turkey
Soma Biswas	India
Shelia Burrell	United States
Marie Collonvillé	France
Natalia Dobrynska	Ukraine
Karin Ertl	Germany
Naide Gomes	Portugal
Tatiana Gordeeva	Russia
Michaela Hejnová	Czech Republic
Tiia Hautala	Finland
Janice Josephs	South Africa
Svetlana Kazanina	Kazakhstan
Sonja Kesselschläger	Germany
Carolina Klüft	Sweden
Denise Lewis	Great Britain
Tiffany Lott-Hogan	United States
Marsha Mark-Baird	Trinidad and Tobago
Yuki Nakata	Japan
Irina Naumenko	Kazakhstan
Michelle Perry	United States
Elena Prokhorova	Russia
Karin Ruckstuhl	Netherlands
Natallia Sasanovich	Belarus
Shen Shengfei	People's Republic of China
JJ Shobha	India
Margaret Simpson	Ghana
Austra Skujytė	Lithuania
Svetlana Sokolova	Russia
Kelly Sotherton	Great Britain
Argyro Strataki	Greece
Magdalena Szczepańska	Poland
Claudia Tonn	Germany
Kylie Wheeler	Australia

Disciplines

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Run 1 August 20, 2004, 9:30 a.m. / wind: +0.2 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Perry 12.74 1164 2 Lott-Hogan 13.13 1105 3 Burrell 13.17 1099 4th Cleft 13.21 1093 5 Sotherton 13.64 1059 6th Josephs 13.69 1023 7th Hejnová 13.82 1004 Run 2 August 20, 2004, 9:36 a.m. / wind: 0.0 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Simpson 13.56 1049 2 Mark-Baird 13.58 1031 3 Hautala 13.99 980 4th Atroshchenko 14.10 964 5 Shen 14.18 953 DNF Gordeyeva 0 Run 3 August 20, 2004, 9:42 a.m. / wind: −0.4 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Lewis 13.40 1065 2 Ertl 13.52 1047 3 Shobha 13.53 1046 4th Gomes 13.58 1039 5 Collonvillé 13.65 1028 6th Wheeler 13.88 995 7th Dobrynska 13.89 994 Run 4 August 20, 2004, 9:48 a.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Ton 13.90 993 2 Nakata 13.94 984 3 Skujytė 14.03 974 4th Akulenko 14.11 963 5 Naumenko 14.16 956 6th Szczepańska 14.41 921 7th Kazanina 14.99 843 Run 5 August 20, 2004, 9:54 a.m. / wind: −0.1 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Boilers 13.38 1068 2 Back chair 13.44 1059 3 Strataki 13.65 1028 4th Sokolova 13.70 1021 5 Sazanovich 13.73 1017 6th Prokhorova 13.84 1001 7th Biswas 13.86 998

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Perry 1164 02 Lott-Hogan 1105 03 Burrell 1099 04th Cleft 1093 05 Boilers 1068 06th Lewis 1065 07th Sotherton 1059 08th Back chair 09 Ertl 1047 10 Shobha 1046 11 Simpson 1041 12 Mark-Baird 1039 13 Gomes 14th Collonvillé 1028 15th Strataki 16 Josephs 1023 17th Sokolova 1021 18th Sazanovich 1017 19th Hejnová 1004 20th Prokhorova 1001 21st Biswas 998 22nd Wheeler 995 23 Dobrynska 994 24 Ton 993 25th Nakata 987 26th Hautala 980 27 Skujytė 974 28 Atroshchenko 964 29 Akulenko 963 30th Naumenko 956 31 Shen 953 32 Szczepańska 921 33 Kazanina 843 34 Gordeyeva 0

high jump

August 20, 2004, 10:40 am
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
The Russian Tatiana Gordejewa did not take part in this second discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1.61 1.79 1.64 1.82 1.67 1.85 1.70 1.88 1.73 1.91 1.76 1.94 height Points 01 Cleft - o - o - o - o - o o xxx 1.91 1119 02 Gomes - o - o - o - xo o xxx o - 1.85 1041 Collonvillé - o - o - o - xo o xxx o - 04th Dobrynska - o - o - xxx- - - o - o - 1.82 1009 05 Ton - xo - xo o xxx o - o - o - 06th Naumenko - o - xxx o - o - o - o - 1.79 966 07th Simpson - o o xxx o - o - o - xo - 08th Wheeler - xo - xxx - - o - o - xo - 09 Prokhorova - xxo - xxx o - o - o - xo - 10 Skujytė - xxx o - o - o - xo - o - 1.76 928 11 Boilers - xxx - - o - o - o - xo - 12 Ertl - - - - o - o - o - xxx - 1.73 891 Shen o - - - o - o - o - xxx - 14th Sokolova - - xo - o - xo - xxx - - - 1.70 855 Kazanina o - xo - o - xo - xxx - - - 16 Hautala - - - - o - xxo - xxx - - - Group B space Surname 1.55 1.73 1.58 1.76 1.61 1.79 1.64 1.82 1.67 1.85 1.70 1.88 height Points 01 Back chair - o - o - o o o o o o xxx 1.85 1041 Sotherton - o - o - o - o - o o xxx 03 Strataki - o - o o o o xxx o - o - 1.79 966 04th Nakata - o - o - xxx o - - - o - 1.76 928 Szczepańska - o - o o xxx o - o - o - 06th Lewis - o - xxx - - - - o - o - 1.73 891 Sazanovich - o - xxx - - - - o - o - 08th Akulenko - xxo - xxx - - o - o - xo - 09 Hejnová - xxx o - o - o - o - o - 1.70 855 Josephs - xxx o - o - - - o - o - 11 Perry o xxx - - xo - o - o - o - 12 Mark-Baird o xxx o - o - xo - xo - xo - 13 Biswas o xxx - - o - o - xo - xxo - 14th Burrell o xxx xo - o - xxo - o - xxo - 15th Lott-Hogan o - o - o - o - xo - xxx - 1.67 818 16 Shobha - - o - xo - o - xo - xxx - 17th Atroshchenko - - o - o - xo - xxx - - - 1.64 783

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Cleft 2212 02 Back chair 2100 Sotherton 04th Gomes 2080 05 Collonvillé 2069 06th Perry 2019 07th Simpson 2007 08th Dobrynska 1997 09 Ton 1996 Boilers 11 Strataki 1994 12 Prokhorova 1967 13 Wheeler 1961 14th Lewis 1956 15th Burrell 1954 16 Ertl 1938 17th Lott-Hogan 1923 18th Naumenko 1922 19th Nakata 1915 20th Sazanovich 1908 21st Skujytė 1902 22nd Mark-Baird 1894 23 Josephs 1878 24 Sokolova 1876 25th Shobha 1864 26th Hejnová 1859 27 Akulenko 1854 28 Biswas 1853 29 Szczepańska 1849 30th Shen 1844 31 Hautala 1835 32 Atroshchenko 1747 33 Kazanina 1698

Shot put

August 20, 2004, 7:30 pm
The competition was carried out in two groups.
The Belarusian Natallja Sasanowitsch did not take part in this third discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Lewis 14.30 15.33 14.53 883 02 Cleft 13.58 14.77 14.13 845 03 Dobrynska 13.96 14.34 14.70 841 04th Shen 12.87 13.69 14.22 809 05 Ertl 13.32 13.92 x 789 06th Prokhorova 13.67 13.21 x 772 07th Back chair 13.09 13.37 12.74 752 08th Wheeler 12.32 13.18 12.68 739 09 Burrell x 13.14 x 737 10 Naumenko 12.95 12.48 x 724 11 Shobha 12.52 11.91 12.39 696 12 Josephs 12.04 12.48 x 693 13 Collonvillé 12.35 11.52 11.85 684 14th Biswas 11.87 11.54 12.01 662 15th Hautala 11.56 x 11.55 632 16 Perry 11.03 x 11.28 614 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Skujytė 16.09 16.40 x 955 02 Gomes 14.43 14.71 x 841 03 Sokolova 14.61 x 14.00 835 04th Boilers 14.53 13.57 13.27 829 05 Lott-Hogan 12.47 13.59 14.43 823 06th Szczepańska 13.16 13.79 13.15 780 07th Strataki 13.21 13.52 13.34 762 08th Sotherton 13.27 13.20 13.29 747 09 Akulenko 12.59 x 13.15 737 10 Simpson 11.85 12.41 x 688 11 Kazanina 12.38 x 12.15 686 12 Atroshchenko 11.83 x 12.29 680 13 Hejnová 11.43 12.13 12.12 670 14th Ton 11.92 11.69 11.66 656 15th Nakata 10.56 10.54 11.54 631 16 Mark-Baird 11.01 10.49 11.20 608

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Cleft 3057 02 Gomes 2921 03 Skujytė 2857 04th Back chair 2852 05 Sotherton 2847 06th Lewis 2839 07th Dobrynska 2838 08th Boilers 2825 09 Strataki 2756 10 Collonvillé 2753 11 Lott-Hogan 2746 12 Prokhorova 2739 13 Ertl 2727 14th Sokolova 2711 15th Wheeler 2700 16 Simpson 2695 17th Burrell 2691 18th Shen 2653 19th Ton 2652 20th Naumenko 2646 21st Perry 2633 22nd Szczepańska 2629 23 Akulenko 2591 24 Josephs 2571 25th Shobha 2560 26th Nakata 2546 27 Hejnová 2529 28 Biswas 2515 29 Mark-Baird 2502 30th Hautala 2467 31 Atroshchenko 2427 32 Kazanina 2384

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Run 1 August 20, 2004, 8:40 p.m. / wind: −0.1 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Perry 22.91 1088 2 Cleft 23.27 1052 3 Josephs 23.37 1042 4th Shobha 23.41 1038 5 Sotherton 23.57 1022 6th Burrell 24.08 975 7th Prokhorova 24.71 914 Run 2 August 20, 2004, 8:45 p.m. / wind: +0.1 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Sokolova 24.21 961 2 Biswas 24.50 933 3 Strataki 24.57 927 4th Back chair 22.59 925 5 Ton 22.84 902 Run 3 August 20, 2004, 8:50 p.m. / wind: −0.9 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Wheeler 24.35 947 2 Akulenko 24.57 927 3 Ertl 24.71 914 4th Naumenko 24.88 898 5 Dobrynska 25.02 885 6th Atroshchenko 25.11 877 7th Hejnová 25.36 854 Run 4 August 20, 2004, 8:55 pm / Wind: −0.1 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Simpson 24.62 922 2 Mark-Baird 25.11 877 3 Gomes 25.46 845 4th Shen 26.01 796 5 Hautala 26.10 788 Run 5 August 20, 2004, 9:00 p.m. / wind: −0.2 m / s space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Skujytė 24.82 903 2 Lott-Hogan 24.99 888 3 Boilers 25.23 866 4th Collonvillé 25.26 863 5 Szczepańska 25.29 860 6th Lewis 25.42 849 7th Nakata 25.76 818 8th Kazanina 26.31 770

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Cleft 4109 02 Sotherton 3869 03 Back chair 3777 04th Gomes 3766 05 Skujytė 3760 06th Dobrynska 3723 07th Perry 3721 08th Boilers 3691 09 Lewis 3688 10 Strataki 3683 11 Sokolova 3672 12 Prokhorova 3653 13 Wheeler 3647 14th Burrell 3646 15th Ertl 3641 16 Lott-Hogan 3634 17th Josephs 3623 18th Simpson 3622 19th Collonvillé 3616 20th Shobha 3598 21st Ton 3554 22nd Naumenko 3544 23 Akulenko 3518 24 Szczepańska 3489 25th Shen 3449 26th Biswas 3448 27 Hejnová 3383 28 Mark-Baird 3379 29 Nakata 3364 30th Atroshchenko 3304 31 Hautala 3255 32 Kazanina 3154

Long jump

August 21, 2004, 10:00 am
The competition was conducted in two groups.
The Turkish Anzhela Atroshchenko did not take part in this fifth discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Sotherton x x 6.51 1010 02 Boilers 6.11 6.09 6.42 981 03 Ton x 6.29 6.35 959 04th Skujytė 6.30 x 6.29 943 05 Mark-Baird 6.22 6.04 x 918 06th Collonvillé 6.19 x x 908 07th Lott-Hogan 5.75 5.92 6.15 896 08th Gomes 6.10 x x 880 09 Simpson x 6.02 5.85 856 10 Akulenko 6.02 x x 11 Szczepańska 5.98 x 5.89 843 12 Strataki 5.97 5.76 x 840 13 Sokolova 5.84 x x 801 14th Hejnová 5.70 5.67 x 759 ogV Kazanina x x x 0 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Cleft x 6.54 6.78 1099 02 Shobha 6.30 6.20 6.36 962 03 Wheeler x 6.36 x 04th Burrell 6.25 x 5.67 927 05 Dobrynska 6.20 x 6.23 921 06th Josephs 6.21 6.16 6.15 915 07th Prokhorova 6.04 6.21 6.04 08th Naumenko 6.16 6.06 x 899 09 Ertl x 6.03 x 859 10 Perry 5.65 5.82 6.02 856 11 Biswas | 5.83 5.86 5.92 825 12 Back chair 5.90 x x 819 13 Lewis 5.89 x 5.81 816 14th Hautala x 4.39 x 401 ogV Shen x x x 0 Nakata x x x

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Cleft 5208 02 Sotherton 4879 03 Skujytė 4703 04th Boilers 4672 05 Gomes 4646 06th Dobrynska 4644 07th Wheeler 4609 08th Back chair 4596 09 Burrell 4593 10 Perry 4577 11 Prokhorova 4568 12 Shobha 4560 13 Lott-Hogan 4530 14th Josephs 4528 15th Collonvillé 4524 16 Strataki 4523 17th Ton 4513 18th Lewis 4504 19th Ertl 4500 Sokolova 4473 21st Simpson 22nd Naumenko 4443 23 Akulenko 4374 24 Szczepańska 4332 25th Mark-Baird 4292 26th Biswas 4273 27 Hejnová 4142 28 Hautala 3656 29 Shen 3449 30th Nakata 3364 31 Kazanina 3154

Javelin throw

The competition was conducted in two groups.
The Finnish Tiia Hautala and the British Denise Lewis did not take part in this sixth discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A August 21, 2004, 6:30 p.m. space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Cleft 43.90 41.48 48.89 839 02 Sokolova 45.51 44.48 47.68 819 03 Burrell 45.46 47.69 46.81 815 04th Shen 45.96 46.95 40.82 801 05 Prokhorova 45.58 41.61 x 775 06th Biswas 44.84 43.98 37.79 760 07th Ertl 42.04 41.85 44.45 753 08th Dobrynska 44.08 x x 746 09 Josephs 34.74 41.80 38.51 702 10 Nakata 39.75 38.79 34.89 662 11 Naumenko 37.29 37.70 39.50 658 12 Perry x 37.69 38.36 636 13 Wheeler 37.65 37.77 34.20 625 14th Back chair 34.00 36.70 36.49 604 Group B August 21, 2004, 7:45 p.m. space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Simpson 53.32 49.67 x 925 02 Mark-Baird 45.52 45.00 49.90 858 03 Skujytė 49.58 47.38 x 852 04th Collonvillé 49.14 44.98 46.63 843 05 Akulenko 42.89 48.62 45.60 833 06th Hejnová 47.06 47.93 48.22 826 07th Lott-Hogan x 41.07 45.84 780 08th Szczepańska 44.36 44.80 41.14 760 09 Shobha 44.36 x x 751 10 Strataki 43.14 42.37 43.87 742 11 Boilers 39.78 42.99 40.48 725 12 Ton 41.12 36.59 40.27 689 13 Gomes 40.75 x x 682 14th Kazanina 39.92 x x 666 15th Sotherton 35.42 37.14 37.19 613

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Cleft 6047 02 Skujytė 5555 03 Sotherton 5492 04th Burrell 5408 05 Simpson 5398 06th Boilers 5397 07th Dobrynska 5390 08th Collonvillé 6367 09 Prokhorova 5343 10 Gomes 5328 11 Shobha 5311 12 Lott-Hogan 5310 13 Sokolova 5292 14th Strataki 5265 15th Ertl 5253 16 Wheeler 5234 17th Josephs 5230 18th Perry 5213 19th Akulenko 5207 20th Ton 5202 21st Back chair 5200 22nd Mark-Bairs 5155 23 Naumenko 5105 24 Szczepańska 5092 25th Biswas 5033 26th Hejnová 4968 27 Shen 4250 28 Nakata 4026 29 Kazanina 3820

800 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.
The Kazakh Svetlana Kazanina did not compete in this seventh and final discipline.
Run 1
August 21, 2004, 9:40 p.m.

space	Surname	Time (min)	Points
1	Biswas	2: 12.27	932
2	Szczepańska	2: 13.08	920
3	Nakata	2: 18.46	845
4th	Hejnová	2: 25.68	748
5	Shen	2: 29.50	699

Run 2
August 21, 2004, 9:47 pm

space	Surname	Time (min)	Points
1	Ton	2: 10.77	953
2	Perry	2: 13.69	911
3	Back chair	2: 13.95	908
4th	Naumenko	2: 14.57	899
5	Josephs	2: 18.47	844
6th	Mark-Baird	2: 21.21	807
7th	Akulenko	2: 22.58	789

Run 3
August 21, 2004, 9:54 p.m.

space	Surname	Time (min)	Points
1	Prokhorova	2: 11.31	946
2	Sokolova	2: 13.23	918
3	Shobha	2: 17.28	861
4th	Wheeler	2: 17.65	856
5	Strataki	2: 17.90	852
6th	Ertl	2: 18.68	842
7th	Gomes	2: 20.05	823
8th	Lott-Hogan	2: 25.10	756

Run 4
August 21, 2004, 9:47 p.m.

space	Surname	Time (min)	Points
1	Sotherton	2: 12.27	932
2	Collonvillé	2: 13.62	912
3	Cleft	2: 14.15	905
4th	Boilers	2: 15.21	890
5	Burrell	2: 15.32	888
6th	Skujytė	2: 15.92	880
7th	Dobrynska	2: 17.01	865
8th	Simpson	2: 17.72	855

Summary

The clear favorite for this competition was the Swedish world and European champion Carolina Klüft. Your strongest rival would have been the French vice world champion Eunice Barber. But this did not appear in the heptathlon due to injury . In the long jump , her specialty, the Frenchwoman tried to start a week later, but was unable to achieve her performance potential due to her training deficit. Candidates for medals were the Belarusian World Cup and European Championship third Natalja Sasanowitsch, the Russian World Champion from 2001 , World Championship fourth from 2003 and silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games Jelena Prokhorova, the US American World Cup third from 2001 Shelia Burrell and the European Championship fourth and World Cup sixth from 2001 Austra Skujytė from Lithuania at the start.

In the 100 meter hurdles , the first discipline, the American Michelle Perry was clearly the fastest participant with 12.64 seconds. She was almost four tenths of a second better than the next best hurdler, her compatriot Tiffany Lott-Hogan. Burrell, Klüft, the German Sonja Kesselschläger and Lewis followed just behind.

In the high jump , Klüft achieved the best performance with 1.91 m and was six centimeters ahead of the next best female heptathletes. 1.85 jumped by the Portuguese Naide Gomes, the French Marie Collonvillé, the Dutch Karin Ruckstuhl and the British Kelly Sotherton. In the interim standings, Klüft led with 2212 points. She was 112 points ahead of Ruckstuhl and Sotherton, 132 points ahead of Collonvillé and 143 points ahead of Perry.

Also in the shot put there was with Skujytė, the 16.09 m reach, a clearly strongest athlete. They were followed by Klüft with 14.77 m, Gomes - 14.71 m, the Ukrainian Natalja Dobrynska - 14.70 m, the Russian Svetlana Sokolova - 14.61 m, Kesselschläger - 14.53 m - and Lott-Hogan - 14, 43 m. Klüft maintained their lead with 3057 points. The gaps were clear. Gomes was second, 136 points behind, followed by Skujytė in third, exactly 200 points behind. Ruckstuhl was now fourth - 205 points behind Sotherton - 210 points behind. Lewis, Dobrynska and Kesselschläger were just behind.

In the 200-meter run , the final discipline of the first day, Perry once again proved her sprinting skills. With 22.91 s she was the only one to break the 23-second mark. The next best heptathletes were Klüft with 23.27 s and the South African Janice Josephs with 23.37 s. After four disciplines, Klüft led with an excellent 4109 points and was already 240 points ahead of Sotherton and 332 points on Ruckstuhl. Gomes was fourth, 343 points behind Klüft. Another six points behind was Skujytė in fifth place ahead of Dobrynska - 385 points behind Klüft.

On the second day, Klüft continued its triumphant advance from the first day. In the long jump , she achieved the greatest distance with 6.78 m. Sotherton with 6.51 m and Kesselschläger with 6.42 m followed on the next places in this discipline. Of the co-favorites, Skujytė was still the best with 6.30 s, so Klüft extended her lead by 329 points, she was now ahead of Sotherton, even 405 points ahead of Skujytė. Kesselschläger, Gomes, Dobrynska and Wheeler followed.

In Javelin Margaret Simpson threw from Ghana with 53.32 m most. She was the only athlete to surpass the 50-meter mark. Behind them were the next best heptathletes lying close together. Marsha Mark-Baird from Trinidad and Tobago scored 49.90 m, Skujytė 49.58 m, Collonvillé 49.14 m. Klüft was also not far behind with her 48.89 m and thus even increased her lead, because Sotherton got stuck at 37.19 m. With that, Skujytė passed the Briton. The deficit on the leading Swede was so great that the Olympic victory before the last discipline could hardly be taken from her. There could only be a fall or an injury. But the fight for the medals and other placements remained open. Skujytė was almost 500 points behind Klüft. It was followed by Sotherton with 63 points behind Skujytė, Burrell was now fourth, she was 84 points behind Sotherton, Simpson in fifth was another ten points behind, Kesselschläger was just one more point behind.

The German Claudia Tonn was the fastest 800-meter runner in the field. She achieved 2: 10.77 minutes in the second run. In the fourth and final race, in which the best placed athletes started, Klüft crossed the finish line in 2: 14.15 minutes in third. Sotherton won this run in 2: 12.27 minutes and was 3.65 seconds ahead of Skujytė. But the order of the medal ranks didn't change anymore, Carolina Klüft became the superior Olympic champion with 6952 points. Austra Skujytė won silver with 6435 points, Kelly Sotherton was only ten points behind her bronze medalist. Shelia Burrell took fourth place. Their gap on Sotherton was 129 points. Jelena Prokhorova worked her way up to fifth place in the end, Sonja Kesselschläger came in sixth ahead of Marie Collonvillé and Natalja Dobrynska.

Carolina Klüft was the first Swedish Olympic champion in an athletics all-around event.
Austra Skujytė won the first medal for Lithuania in the all-around competition.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	6952
2	Austra Skujytė	Lithuania	6435
3	Kelly Sotherton	Great Britain	6425
4th	Shelia Burrell	United States	6296
5	Elena Prokhorova	Russia	6289
6th	Sonja Kesselschläger	Germany	6287
7th	Marie Collonvillé	France	6279
8th	Natalia Dobrynska	Ukraine	6255
9	Margaret Simpson	Ghana	6253
10	Svetlana Sokolova	Russia	6210
11	JJ Shobha	India	6172
12	Claudia Tonn	Germany	6155
13	Naide Gomes	Portugal	6151
14th	Michelle Perry	United States	6124
15th	Argyro Strataki	Greece	6117
16	Karin Ruckstuhl	Netherlands	6108
17th	Karin Ertl	Germany	6095
18th	Kylie Wheeler	Australia	6090
19th	Janice Josephs	South Africa	6074
20th	Tiffany Lott-Hogan	United States	6066
21st	Magdalena Szczepańska	Poland	6012
22nd	Irina Naumenko	Kazakhstan	6000
23	Yulia Akulenko	Ukraine	5996
24	Soma Biswas	India	5965
25th	Marsha Mark-Baird	Trinidad and Tobago	5962
26th	Michaela Hejnová	Czech Republic	5716
27	Shen Shengfei	People's Republic of China	4949
28	Yuki Nakata	Japan	4871

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  Gold medalist Carolina Klüft, Sweden

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  Silver medalist Austra Skujytė, Lithuania

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  Bronze medalist Kelly Sotherton, Great Britain

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  The Portuguese Naide Gomes took thirteenth place

• SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed May 21, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 21, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 21, 2018

Video

• Carolina Klüft (Athens 2004) , published June 25, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed May 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 21, 2018
2. ^ South American Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 21, 2018
3. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 21, 2018
4. ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 21, 2018
5. ^ IAAF world records, women heptathlon , accessed on May 21, 2018