The men's heptathlon at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 2 and 3 March 2018.

The winning margin was 5 points which as of July 2024 remains the joint-narrowest winning margin in the men's heptathlon at these championships. The gold medallist achieved the best score in the shot put.

Summary With the retirement of defending champion Ashton Eaton, the multi-event world opened up. 2016 Olympic silver medalist Kévin Mayer assumed the top spot winning the 2017 World Championships. His pursuers included Olympic bronze medalist Damian Warner and world championship bronze medalist Kai Kazmirek.

In the 60 metres, Warner ran the top time of 6.74, his personal best, but Mayer was only .11 behind, also running his personal best, putting Warner 41 points ahead. In the long jump, Kazmirek boomed a personal best to offset one of the poorer 60 metre times to move into a tight group fighting for third place. Oleksiy Kasyanov actually held an 8-point advantage in third, with Dominik Distelberger joining the other two within 13 points of each other. At the top of the leader board, Mayer had another personal best of 7.55m in the long jump to pull within two points of Warner. In the shot put, Mayer overpowered Warner, his more than two feet further than Warner, who threw his personal best 14.90 m. Mayer had a 45-point lead. Kazmirek's personal best 14.55 m shot put put him 16 points up for third place. As the last event of the first day, Mayer and Warner topped out at 2.02 m, with Kazmirek gaining a little ground with a 2.05 m. At that height, Maicel Uibo had barely warmed up. Uibo kept clearing heights all the way up to , which also moved him into a solid third place, exactly 100 points behind Mayer.

Warner began the second day with a 7.67 60 metres hurdles, 0.16 s better than Mayer and enough to pull him back to four points behind. Both Kazmirek and Uibo ran personal bests, but Kazmirek was .24 better to give him a 45 point advantage. Kasyanov pushed over a hurdle to take himself out of the race. In the pole vault, Warner got over a personal best 4.90m to only lose 10 cm and another 30 points to Mayer. Again on the vertical jump, Uibo excelled clearing a personal best of , which was matched by Eelco Sintnicolaas who was still in sixth place, behind Zachery Ziemek. But Kazmirek had also jumped a personal best 5.20 m, so Uibo was still 13 points behind. In order to win the championship, Warner needed to beat Mayer by about 3 seconds in the 1000 meters, and Uibo needed to beat Kazmirek by about 1.3 seconds. Both Warner 2:37.12 and Uibo 2:38.51 ran personal bests in first and second place. Mayer was able to stay about 2 and a half seconds behind Warner to take the championship by a scant 5 points. Uibo beat Kazmirek by over 3 and a half seconds to take the bronze. Warner was able to beat Mike Smith's 25 year old Canadian national record.

Detailed results 60 metres The 60 metres was held on 2 March at 09:59.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Result Points Notes 1 1 Damian Warner 6.74 977 2 2 Kevin Mayer 6.85 936 3 2 Zachery Ziemek 6.89 922 4 2 Dominik Distelberger 6.93 907 5 2 Oleksiy Kasyanov 6.95 900 6 2 Eelco Sintnicolaas 6.96 897 7 2 Lindon Victor 6.98 889 8 1 Ruben Gado 6.99 886 9 1 Jan Doležal 7.04 868 10 1 Kai Kazmirek 7.15 830 11 1 Maicel Uibo 7.20 813 12 1 Kurt Felix 7.21 809

Long jump The long jump was held on 2 March at 10:40.

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Points Notes Total 1 Kai Kazmirek 7.08 7.68 7.18 7.68 980 1810 2 Kevin Mayer 7.43 7.36 7.55 7.55 947 1883 3 Oleksiy Kasyanov 7.43 7.43 918 1818 4 Maicel Uibo 7.41 7.41 913 1726 5 Damian Warner 7.11 7.39 7.39 908 1885 6 Dominik Distelberger 6.99 7.08 7.35 7.35 898 1805 7 Ruben Gado 7.26 7.26 876 1762 8 Zachery Ziemek 7.09 6.96 7.21 7.21 864 1786 9 Eelco Sintnicolaas 6.94 7.01 7.15 7.15 850 1747 10 Jan Doležal 6.96 7.04 6.84 7.04 823 1691 11 Kurt Felix 6.93 6.93 797 1606 12 Lindon Victor 5.55 5.55 492 1381

Shot put The shot put was held on 2 March at 11:59.

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Points Notes Total 1 Kevin Mayer 14.49 15.67 15.67 831 2714 2 Lindon Victor 15.54 15.54 823 2204 3 Damian Warner 14.90 13.89 14.90 784 2669 4 Jan Doležal 14.17 14.82 14.16 14.82 779 2470 5 Kai Kazmirek 13.54 14.55 14.55 762 2572 6 Kurt Felix 14.35 14.39 14.39 752 2358 7 Maicel Uibo 14.30 14.01 14.19 14.30 747 2473 8 Oleksiy Kasyanov 14.03 14.16 14.16 738 2556 9 Eelco Sintnicolaas 14.09 14.00 14.02 14.09 734 2481 10 Ruben Gado 13.61 13.12 13.17 13.61 704 2466 11 Zachery Ziemek 12.52 13.45 13.48 13.48 697 2483 12 Dominik Distelberger 12.46 12.21 13.04 12.24 670 2475

High jump The high jump was held on 2 March at 19:44.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality 1.81 1.84 1.87 1.90 1.93 1.96 1.99 2.02 2.05 2.08 2.11 2.14 2.17 2.20 Result Points Notes Total 1 B Maicel Uibo – – – – – – – o – xo o xxo xo xxx 2.17 963 3436 2 A Kai Kazmirek – – – – o – xo xo xxo xxx 2.05 850 3422 3 A Zachery Ziemek – – – – – o o o xxx 2.02 822 3305 4 A Damian Warner – – – o o o o xo xxx 2.02 822 3491 5 A Kevin Mayer – – – – o – xo xo xxx 2.02 822 3536 6 A Oleksiy Kasyanov – – – xo o o xo xo xxx 1.99 794 3155 7 B Jan Doležal – – o o xxo o xxx 1.96 767 3237 8 B Ruben Gado – o o o xo xxo xxx 1.96 767 3233 9 B Dominik Distelberger – xo xo o xxo xxx 1.93 740 3215 10 A Eelco Sintnicolaas o – o o xxx 1.90 714 3195 11 B Lindon Victor – – – – – xxx 0 2204 B Kurt Felix 0

60 metres hurdles The 60 metres hurdles was held on 3 March at 09:59.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Result Points Notes Total 1 2 Damian Warner 7.67 1066 4557 2 2 Kevin Mayer 7.83 1025 4561 3 1 Kai Kazmirek 7.95 994 4416 4 2 Eelco Sintnicolaas 7.97 989 4184 5 2 Dominik Distelberger 7.98 987 4202 6 1 Zachery Ziemek 8.14 947 4252 7 1 Maicel Uibo 8.19 935 4371 8 2 Jan Doležal 8.20 932 4169 9 1 Ruben Gado 8.47 867 4100 2 Oleksiy Kasyanov 0 168.7(b)Deliberately knocking down a hurdle 3378 1 Lindon Victor 0

Pole vault Pole vault was held on 3 March at 11:07.

Rank Athlete Nationality 4.30 4.40 4.50 4.60 4.70 4.80 4.90 5.00 5.10 5.20 5.30 5.40 Result Points Notes Total 1 Eelco Sintnicolaas – – – – – – – o – xo o xxx 5.30 1004 5188 2 Maicel Uibo – – – – – – –o o o o xo xxx 5.30 1004 5375 3 Kai Kazmirek – – – – – o – o o o xxx 5.20 972 53884 Ruben Gado – – – – – – – o o xxx 5.10 941 5041 Zachery Ziemek – – – – – – – o o xxx 5.10 941 5193 6 Kevin Mayer – – – – – – – o – xxx 5.00 910 5471 7 Damian Warner – – – o – o xxo xxx 4.90 880 5437 8 Dominik Distelberger – – – o – o xxx 4.80 849 5051 9 Jan Doležal – – o o o xxx 4.70 819 4988 Oleksiy Kasyanov 0 Lindon Victor 0

1000 metres

The 1000 metres was held on 3 March at 19:50.

Rank Name Nationality Result Points Notes 1 Damian Warner 2:37.12 906 2 Maicel Uibo 2:38.51 890 3 Ruben Gado 2:38.86 886 4 Kevin Mayer 2:39.64 877 5 Dominik Distelberger 2:41.49 857 6 Kai Kazmirek 2:42.15 850 7 Eelco Sintnicolaas 2:45.93 809 8 Jan Doležak 2:47.99 787 9 Zachery Ziemek 2:51.73 748

Overall results After all events.

Key

Key:WLWorld leading performanceNIRNational indoor recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal bestDNSDid not startDNFDid not finishDQDisqualifiedNMNo mark

RankAthleteNationalityOverall points60 mLJSPHJ60 m HPV1000 mKevin Mayer 6348Damian Warner 6343NIRMaicel Uibo 6265Kai Kazmirek 6238Eelco Sintnicolaas 5997Zachery Ziemek 5941Ruben Gado 5927Dominik Distelberger 5908Jan Doležal 5775Oleksiy Kasyanov Lindon Victor Kurt Felix

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