2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The Women's Heptathlon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on 29 and 30 August.
Before the competition, reigning champion Jessica Ennis was top of the year's heptathlon rankings and was closely followed by Tatyana Chernova who had set a personal best. The 2009 silver medallist Jennifer Oeser was also in good form while Nataliya Dobrynska and Hyleas Fountain were the other high-profile competitors. Tatyana Chernova won the gold medal finishing 129 points ahead of Jessica Ennis.
Hyleas Fountain started the event powerfully, looking like she was in it to win it. She squeezed out a.02 victory in the 100 metres hurdles and added a 3 cm advantage in the high jump, just a centimeter below her personal best, to give her a 39-point lead. Then things began to unravel. She gave up over 2 metres in the Shot put, where defending champion Jessica Ennis and returning silver medalist Tatyana Chernova powered through. Chernova was gaining from the beginning of the second day with a 10 cm advantage in the long jump. But the real break occurred when Chernova gained exactly 13 metres on Ennis in the javelin, a 250-point swing. Jennifer Oeser used her strong javelin throw to place herself firmly in third. Karolina Tyminska in fourth and Ennis tried to run themselves into an advanced position in the 800 metres. While Tyminska won the 800, Oeser was able to stay close enough to her to hold on to the bronze. Ennis was just 2.6 seconds behind Tyminska, but Chernova would not let Ennis gain even a quarter of a second, much less the gold medal.
However, on 29 November 2016 the IAAF stripped Chernova of the title, as well as many of her others due to doping and the results were adjusted accordingly.
Medalists
- Following disqualification of Tatyana Chernova,. Ennis and Oeser, but not Tymińska, attended the medal ceremony, held at the 2017 World Championships on 4 August 2017.
Records
| World record | 7291 | Seoul, South Korea | 24 September 1988 | |
| Championship record | 7128 | Rome, Italy | 1 September 1987 | |
| World leading | 6790 | Götzis, Austria | 29 May 2011 | |
| African record | 6423 | Götzis, Austria | 29 May 2005 | |
| Asian record | 6942 | Götzis, Austria | 26 May 1996 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 7291 | Seoul, South Korea | 24 September 1988 | |
| South American record | 6076 | Beijing, China | 16 August 2008 | |
| European record | 7032 | Osaka, Japan | 26 August 2007 | |
| Oceanian record | 6695 | Auckland, New Zealand | 28 January 1990 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
100 metres hurdles
Wind:Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: +1.6 m/s, Heat 4: +1.7 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Points | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Hyleas Fountain | 12.93 | 1135 | SB | |
| 2 | 1 | Jessica Ennis | 12.94 | 1133 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Jessica Zelinka | 13.01 | 1123 | SB | |
| 4 | 2 | Karolina Tymińska | 13.12 | 1106 | PB | |
| 5 | 1 | Louise Hazel | 13.24 | 1089 | PB | |
| 6 | 2 | Tatyana Chernova | 13.32 | 1077 | PB | |
| 7 | 1 | Jennifer Oeser | 13.33 | 1075 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Sara Aerts | 13.38 | 1068 | SB | |
| 9 | 3 | Margaret Simpson | 13.43 | 1060 | SB | |
| 9 | 4 | Nataliya Dobrynska | 13.43 | 1060 | PB | |
| 11 | 2 | Anna Bogdanova | 13.44 | 1059 | SB | |
| 11 | 2 | Grit Šadeiko | 13.44 | 1059 | PB | |
| 11 | 2 | Francesca Doveri | 13.44 | 1059 | SB | |
| 14 | 1 | Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida | 13.48 | 1053 | ||
| 15 | 2 | Lyudmyla Yosypenko | 13.49 | 1052 | PB | |
| 16 | 3 | Remona Fransen | 13.57 | 1040 | PB | |
| 17 | 3 | Ruky Abdulai | 13.60 | 1036 | PB | |
| 18 | 3 | Wassana Winatho | 13.62 | 1033 | PB | |
| 19 | 1 | Lilli Schwarzkopf | 13.65 | 1028 | ||
| 20 | 3 | Sharon Day | 13.69 | 1023 | PB | |
| 21 | 3 | Jessica Samuelsson | 13.77 | 1011 | PB | |
| 22 | 3 | Kateřina Cachová | 13.81 | 1005 | SB | |
| 23 | 4 | Ida Marcussen | 13.96 | 984 | PB | |
| 23 | 4 | Austra Skujytė | 13.96 | 984 | PB | |
| 25 | 2 | Aiga Grabuste | 14.06 | 970 | ||
| 26 | 4 | Alina Fyodorova | 14.06 | 970 | PB | |
| 27 | 4 | Julia Mächtig | 14.15 | 957 | SB | |
| 28 | 4 | Györgyi Farkas | 14.32 | 934 |
High jump
Shot put
200 metres
Wind:Heat 1: -1.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.2 m/s, Heat 3: -1.1 m/s, Heat 4: -1.3 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Points | Notes | Overall |
| 1 | 1 | Jessica Ennis | 23.27 | 1052 | 4078 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Tatyana Chernova | 23.50 | 1029 | PB | 3927 | |
| 3 | 1 | Karolina Tymińska | 23.87 | 993 | 3843 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Hyleas Fountain | 23.96 | 985 | 3887 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Jessica Zelinka | 24.06 | 975 | 3783 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Lyudmyla Yosypenko | 24.09 | 972 | 3778 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Louise Hazel | 24.25 | 957 | 3634 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Grit Šadeiko | 24.39 | 944 | PB | 3531 | |
| 9 | 2 | Ruky Abdulai | 24.50 | 933 | 3590 | ||
| 10 | 2 | Jessica Samuelsson | 24.55 | 929 | 3599 | ||
| 11 | 1 | Jennifer Oeser | 24.58 | 926 | 3791 | ||
| 12 | 2 | Aiga Grabuste | 24.83 | 902 | 3564 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Sharon Day | 25.01 | 886 | 3700 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Remona Fransen | 25.17 | 871 | 3661 | ||
| 15 | 2 | Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida | 25.19 | 869 | 3737 | ||
| 16 | 3 | Margaret Simpson | 25.23 | 866 | 3597 | ||
| 17 | 4 | Alina Fyodorova | 25.35 | 855 | PB | 3609 | |
| 17 | 3 | Nataliya Dobrynska | 25.35 | 855 | 3868 | ||
| 19 | 3 | Kateřina Cachová | 25.36 | 854 | 3437 | ||
| 20 | 2 | Francesca Doveri | 25.45 | 846 | 3417 | ||
| 21 | 4 | Julia Mächtig | 25.54 | 838 | SB | 3650 | |
| 22 | 4 | Anna Bogdanova | 25.64 | 829 | 3733 | ||
| 23 | 4 | Ida Marcussen | 25.74 | 820 | 3386 | ||
| 24 | 3 | Lilli Schwarzkopf | 25.82 | 813 | 3673 | ||
| 25 | 4 | Austra Skujytė | 26.04 | 794 | 3808 | ||
| 26 | 4 | Györgyi Farkas | 26.35 | 767 | 3390 | ||
| 4 | Sara Aerts |