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Only Anna Hall, who finished fifth in the 2024 Paris Olympics, has a better high school girls heptathlon score.
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Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
Hall walked away with another NCAA title in the heptathlon and a silver medal in the 400-meter hurdles.
—Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
That didn’t keep away U.S. heptathlon champion Anna Hall, who stepped into the 400-meter hurdles at the latest slam.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 6 May 2025
Across the track, the Aggies also saw wins from its distance medley relay team and Blake Harris in the heptathlon and from Samuel Whitmarsh in the 800m.
Whitmarsh earned his second straight SEC title, legging past Mississippi State’s Abdullah Hassan in 1:47.69.
—Cory Mull, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.—
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The Barbara Hood Memorial Student Scholar Athlete Award winner also took home first at the Div. 3 championship in the 100-meter hurdles (14.68), the 55-meter hurdles (8.35) and the pentathlon (3,258).—
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Corbo, a first-team All-Dade player at Palmer, went to Ole Miss as a walk-on track athlete, training in the javelin throw as a freshman and in the decathlon as a sophomore.—
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Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.—
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By February, Stoeffler was cleared by Neely to start running, swimming and biking again for the triathlon that was three months away.—
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Her home was filled with triathlon medals, including awards from the famed Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco.—
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German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier, who captured two gold medals at the 2018 Olympics, died in mountaineering accident in a remote range of Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.—
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Belarusian competitors excel in biathlon and aerial skiing, and the two sports account for every medal but one that the nation has won at the Winter Games.—
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The tournament starts Sunday at Melbourne Park.—
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When he was gone, Rogers made their first-ever state tournament.—
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“Heptathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heptathlon. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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