The women's heptathlon competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–21 August.
Competition format The heptathlon consists of seven track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the seven components. The seven event scores are summed to give a total for the heptathlon.
Schedule All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2) Date Time RoundFriday, 20 August 2004 09:3010:4019:3020:40100 metres hurdlesHigh jumpShot put200 metresSaturday, 21 August 2004 10:0018:3021:40Long jumpJavelin throw800 metres
Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows:
No new records were set during the competition.
Overall results The final results of the event are in the following table.
Key
RankAthlete CountryOverall points100 m HHJSP200 mLJJT800 m Carolina Klüft 6952 (SB) Austra Skujytė 6435 (PB) Kelly Sotherton 6424 (PB) Shelia Burrell 6296 (SB) Yelena Prokhorova 6289 Sonja Kesselschläger 6287 (PB) Marie Collonvillé 6279 (SB) Nataliya Dobrynska 6255 Margaret Simpson 625310 Svetlana Sokolova 621011 Shobha Javur 617212 Claudia Tonn 615513 Naide Gomes 6151 (SB)14 Michelle Perry 612415 Argyro Strataki 611716 Karin Ruckstuhl 610817 Karin Ertl 609518 Kylie Wheeler 609019 Janice Josephs 607420 Tiffany Lott-Hogan 606621 Magdalena Szczepańska 601222 Irina Naumenko 600023 Yuliya Akulenko 599624 Soma Biswas 596525 Marsha Mark-Baird 5962 (NR)26 Michaela Hejnová 571627 Shen Shengfei 494928 Yuki Nakata 4871 Svetlana Kazanina Denise Lewis Tiia Hautala Anzhela Atroshchenko Natallia Sazanovich Tatyana Gordeyeva
References
External links Official Olympic Report