Women's Olympic Heptathlon Through the Years
Updated September 27, 2017 |
Infoplease Staff
Heptathlon
| Year | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Irina Press, USSR | 5246 | WR |
| 1968 | Ingrid Becker, W. Ger | 5098 | |
| 1972 | Mary Peters, GBR | 4801 | WR |
| 1976 | Siegrun Siegl, E. Ger | 4745 | |
| 1980 | Nadezhda Tkachenko, USSR | 5083 | WR |
| 1984 | Glynis Nunn, AUS | 6390 | OR |
| 1988 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA | 7291 | WR |
| 1992 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA | 7044 | |
| 1996 | Ghada Shouaa, SYR | 6780 | |
| 2000 | Denise Lewis, GBR | 6584 | |
| 2004 | Carolina Kluft, SWE | 6952 | |
| 2008 | Natalya Dobrynska, UKR | 6733 | |
| 2012 | Jessica Ennis, GBR | 6955 |
Note: Seven-event Heptathlon replaced five-event Pentathlon in 1984.
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