In Tallinn last month, he broke Kevin Mayer’s European indoor heptathlon record with 6484. He went on to add 74 points to that mark when taking gold at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn ...

Norway's Sander Skotheim clinched the European indoor heptathlon title in style at the last throw of the dice in the ...

Sander Skotheim improved his European record to 6558 to move to third on the world indoor heptathlon all-time list ...

Any sprint-based athlete runs on ego; it is the oil of the system," says Dwight Stones, former world record holder in the high jump, about two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee ...

As a collegian at UCLA, Joyner-Kersee won the NCAA heptathlon title in 1982, 1983. The former long jump world record holder, she set the heptathlon world record three times and was a two-time 100mH ...

Abhinav Sreeram sets new heptathlon record at National Youth Athletics Championships with 4731 points in Kerala.

Now, the building stands immortal. Almost exactly 100 years later, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 26-year-old Jackie Joyner-Kersee became the first-ever heptathlon contestant to surpass 7,000 points.

She came to dominate the heptathlon, a demanding seven-event competition that measures speed, strength and stamina. Not only the possessor of the world record of 7,291 points, she also holds the ...