With just the 800m left to run, Anna Hall knew she needed to shave 0.87 seconds off her already impressive personal best time of 2:03.11 to reach the coveted 7000-point total.
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At the recent Hypo Meeting in Götzis, a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting, the 22-year-old American heptathlete Anna Hall came tantalizingly close to breaking the 7000-point barrier in the heptathlon, thus securing a victory with a global best score of 6988. This achievement puts Hall in the elite company of the world’s all-time top five heptathletes, trailing only those in the 7000-point group: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carolina Kluft, Nafissatou Thiam, and Larisa Nikitina. Meanwhile, the decathlon title stayed with Canada, but was transferred from seven-time victor Damian Warner to his fellow countryman Pierce LePage, who claimed the top spot with a globally leading score of 8700.
Hall’s commanding performance was evident from the start, setting a new record in the 100m hurdles at the meeting with a time of 12.75. She quickly claimed the top spot and never relinquished her hold. Close behind in the 100m hurdles were fellow American Taliyah Brooks and Cuba’s Adriana Rodriguez, with times of 12.85 and 12.97 respectively, followed by Poland’s Adrianna Sulek. Hall also achieved a personal best in the high jump, matching Croatia’s young sensation, Jana Koscak, at 1.92m. Sulek moved to third place after clearing 1.83m, while Britain’s 2019 world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson managed 1.89m to secure the fourth position.
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In the shot put, two-time U20 world champion Saga Vanninen from Finland earned fourth place with a throw of 14.98m. Despite winning the 200m in a personal best time of 22.88, Hall showed signs of frustration during the long jump, falling short of the board on some jumps, even though she achieved the top three distances of the day. Hall remained in the lead going into the javelin, and she held onto that lead with a throw of 43.08m.
With just the 800m left to run, Anna Hall knew she needed to shave 0.87 seconds off her already impressive personal best time of 2:03.11 to reach the coveted 7000-point total. Hall, who claimed the US indoor 400m title earlier this year, gave it her all in the final event, setting another personal best with a time of 2:02.97, which brought her final score to 6988. This extraordinary feat puts Hall at second on the all-time list of achievements at Götzis, and her improved personal best of 233 points also makes her the second-best performer in North American history.
“I’m very happy with the score. The crowd carried me through. It’s a dream. I am just 22 and I have time for a score over 7000 points. I am now focused on progressing. I will run the 400 meters hurdles in Florence next Friday and then I will return to the USA to get ready for the US National Championships and the World Championships, ” said an elated Anna Hall.
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