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Heptathlon, Women

Date	20 – 21 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Stadio, Olympiako Athletiko Kentro Athinon Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Participants	34 from 24 countries
Format	Scoring by 1985 point tables.

Carolina Klüft (SWE) had won the 2003 World Championship, becoming only the third woman over 7,000 points, with Eunice Barber, a native of Sierra Leone now representing France, placing second. But the battle between the two in 2004 never occurred as Barber was injured most of the year. This left Klüft, also the 2002 European Champion, with no real competition. She placed fourth in the high hurdles, trailing the three Americans, but her 1.91 (6-3¼) high jump put her into the lead for good. She led after day one by 240 points and eventually won by over 500 points, the largest margin of victory ever in the event at the Olympics. Kelly Sotherton (GBR) moved into second place after the long jump, but Austra Skujtė (LTU) outthrew her in the javelin and held her off in the 800 to win the silver medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Points	100 metres Hurdles	High Jump	Shot Put	200 metres	Long Jump	Javelin Throw	800 metres
1	3074	Carolina Klüft	SWE	6952	–	13.21	1.91	14.77	23.27	6.78	48.89	2:14.15	Gold
2	2451	Austra Skujytė	LTU	6435	–	14.03	1.76	16.40	24.82	6.30	49.58	2:15.92	Silver
3	1839	Kelly Sotherton	GBR	6424	–	13.44	1.85	13.29	23.57	6.51	37.19	2:12.27	Bronze
4	3236	Shelia Burrell	USA	6296	–	13.17	1.70	13.14	24.06	6.25	47.69	2:15.32
5	2927	Yelena Prokhorova	RUS	6289	–	13.84	1.79	13.67	24.71	6.21	45.58	2:11.31
6	1899	Sonja Kesselschläger	GER	6287	–	13.38	1.76	14.53	25.23	6.42	42.99	2:15.21
7	1725	Marie Collonvillé	FRA	6279	–	13.65	1.85	12.35	25.26	6.19	49.14	2:13.62
8	3170	Nataliya Dobrynska	UKR	6255	–	13.89	1.82	14.70	25.02	6.23	44.08	2:17.01
9	1964	Margaret Simpson	GHA	6253	–	13.56	1.79	12.41	24.62	6.02	53.32	2:17.72
10	2945	Svetlana Sokolova	RUS	6210	–	13.70	1.70	14.61	24.21	5.84	47.86	2:13.23
11	2117	J. J. Shobha	IND	6172	–	13.53	1.67	12.52	23.41	6.36	44.36	2:17.28
12	1939	Claudia Tonn	GER	6155	–	13.90	1.82	11.92	24.84	6.35	41.12	2:10.77
13	2730	Naide Gomes	POR	6151	–	13.58	1.85	14.71	25.46	6.10	40.75	2:20.05
14	3324	Michelle Perry	USA	6124	–	12.74	1.70	11.28	22.91	6.02	38.36	2:13.69
15	2016	Argyro Strataki	GRE	6117	–	13.65	1.79	13.52	24.57	5.97	43.87	2:17.90
16	2574	Karin Ruckstuhl	NED	6108	–	13.44	1.85	13.37	24.59	5.90	36.70	2:13.95
17	1875	Karin Ertl	GER	6095	–	13.52	1.73	13.92	24.71	6.03	44.45	2:18.68
18	1098	Kylie Wheeler	AUS	6090	–	13.88	1.79	13.18	24.35	6.36	37.77	2:17.65
19	2820	Janice Josephs	RSA	6074	–	13.69	1.70	12.48	23.37	6.21	41.80	2:18.47
20	3302	Tiffany Lott-Hogan	USA	6066	–	13.13	1.67	14.43	24.99	6.15	45.84	2:25.10
21	2704	Magdalena Szczepańska	POL	6012	–	14.41	1.76	13.79	25.29	5.98	44.80	2:13.08
22	2322	Irina Naumenko	KAZ	6000	–	14.16	1.79	12.95	24.88	6.16	39.50	2:14.57
23	3160	Yuliya Akulenko	UKR	5996	–	14.11	1.73	13.15	24.57	6.02	48.62	2:22.58
24	2107	Soma Biswas	IND	5965	–	13.86	1.70	12.01	24.50	5.92	44.84	2:12.27
25	3127	Marsha Mark-Baird	TTO	5962	–	13.58	1.70	11.20	25.11	6.22	49.90	2:21.21
26	1496	Michaela Hejnová	CZE	5716	–	13.82	1.70	12.13	25.36	5.70	48.22	2:25.68
27	1369	Shen Shengfei	CHN	4949	–	14.18	1.73	14.22	26.01	–	46.95	2:29.50
28	2281	Yuki Nakata	JPN	4871	–	13.94	1.76	11.54	25.76	–	39.75	2:18.46
DNF	2315	Svetlana Kazanina	KAZ	–	–	14.99	1.70	12.38	26.31	–	39.92	–
DNF	1814	Denise Lewis	GBR	–	–	13.40	1.73	15.33	25.42	5.89	–	–
DNF	1685	Tiia Hautala	FIN	–	–	13.99	1.70	11.56	26.10	4.39	–	–
DNF	3144	Anzhela Atroshchenko	TUR	–	–	14.10	1.64	12.29	25.11	–	–	–
DNF	1194	Natasha Sazanovich	BLR	–	–	13.73	1.73	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	2878	Tatyana Gordeyeva	RUS	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–