Preview: World Indoor Championships Heptathlon, Glasgow 2024
SIMON EHAMMER, SWITZERLAND As the eleven decathletes line up for the start of the heptathlon at the World Indoors in Glasgow this weekend, all eyes will be on Simon Ehammer…
PREVIEW: X-ATHLETICS, CLERMONT FERRAND, 2024
“Indoors it’s a completely different beast,” said Ash Moloney after winning bronze in his first ever heptathlon, at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022. “I reckon it’s more…
Rankings Analysis: 14 November 2023
The changes to the top 100 decathlon and heptathlon world rankings on 14 November 2023 reflected the expiry of results from May 2022, most significantly Ratingen, Big 10, PAC 12,…
Preview: Götzis 2023
HEPTATHLON As Anna Hall came around the final bend at the front of the 800m field and towards a bronze medal at the World Championships in Oregon, Adrianna Sułek appeared…
Preview: Heptathlon, European Indoors, Istanbul
The second preview of events this weekend in the Atakoy Arena in Istanbul: the men’s heptathlon. Kevin Mayer is the obvious choice for favourite, and fully fit and in form…
Review: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont Ferrand
At the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand on the weekend of 28th and 29th January, Makenson Gletty and Leonie Cambours shone as the top French athletes, Simon Ehammer secured perhaps…
Preview: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont-Ferrand
I first attended the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand in January 2019, the year I decided I was going to put my lifelong love for the combined events out into…
Review: European Championships decathlon, Munich 2022
There was something about the set of Niklas Kaul’s jaw as he concluded the penultimate event of the 2022 European Championships decathlon in the Munich Olympastadion. This was a different…
Review: US Trials and Ratingen
In the small hours of Friday night (for European readers) the mighty US Championships decathlon and heptathlon got underway in Fayetteville. As the sun started to set on Sunday evening…
Review: World Indoors 2022, Belgrade
HEPTATHLON 60M “It’s bloody fast!” was the conclusion after the first event of the men’s heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. The words were those of Australia’s Ash…