Anna Hall breaks record in Götzis and becomes second athletics legend!

Anna Hall breaks record in Götzis and becomes second athletics legend!

A spectacular all-around meeting took place in Götzis, Austria, where Anna Hall from the USA set a new meeting record. With a total score of 7,032 points, the heptathlete not only secured first place, but also catapulted herself into the history books as she is now the second best woman in athletics history. Only Jackie Joyner-Kersee has scored more points, while Hall is tied with Carolina Klüft in the all-time statistics. This outstanding performance was further crowned by a new world record in the 800 meters (2:01.84 minutes), as reported by laola1.at.

Hall beat the previous record in Götzis, held by Nafissatou Thiam, by 19 points. Her previous best, which she achieved in 2023, was 6,988 points. In the competition itself, the competition was well behind Hall; Sofie Dokter from the Netherlands came in second with 6,576 points, followed by Martha Araujo from Colombia who scored 6,475 points. Chiara-Belinda Schuler, the only Austrian in the field, reached 18th place with 5,904 points.

The male competitors in Götzis

In the men's event, Skander Skotheim from Norway won with an impressive performance of 8,909 points, which ranks as the ninth-best points total of all time. Kyle Garland from the USA came in second with 8,626 points. Simon Ehammer, the Swiss athlete, scored 8,575 points, improving his own record of 8,468 points from 2022 by 107 points. Ehammer finished third in the competition and performed better than his previous record in most disciplines, only falling short of his expectations in the shot put, reports tagesanzeiger.ch.

Among the male participants, the Canadian eight-time Götzis winner Damian Warner also scored 8,527 points and came seventh. Matthias Lasch of Austria scored 7,986 points in his first decathlon and finished 17th, making him the eighth best Austrian in the decathlon. The record in this area is 8,175 points, set by Dominik Distelberger in 2016.

A look at the heptathlon

The heptathlon, which is an Olympic athletics discipline for women, consists of seven events: 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 meter run, long jump, javelin throw and 800 meter run. It is held as a two-day competition and has existed in its modern form since 1981. Historically, in the early days, female athletes from the GDR dominated the discipline. A well-known heptathlon competition is the all-around meeting in Götzis, which regularly attracts talented athletes. Caroline Klüft is the record winner in this context, while Jackie Joyner-Kersee also holds the long jump record with 7.27 meters, as explained on wikipedia.org.

With the impressive performances of Anna Hall and Simon Ehammer, the all-around meeting in Götzis has once again proven that it is the stage for extraordinary athletic achievements.