Theisen-Eaton wins Hypo-Meeting heptathlon title for third time in four years
With a world leading 6765 points, Brianne Theisen-Eaton won the heptathlon at Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria on Sunday.
It’s the second consecutive year and for the third time in four meets at Gotzis that Theisen-Eaton has won the heptathlon crown in the annual combined events mega showcase. It’s also the second time Canadians swept the heptathlon and decathlon with Damian Warner winning the latter.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton competes in the 60m hurdles portion of the pentathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on March 18, 2016.
Holding a 40-point lead against the field after the first four events on Saturday (where she set two personal bests), Theisen-Eaton entered Sunday wearing the ‘leader’ bib. She expanded that gap in winning by 143 points on Sunday, with Laura Ikauniece-Admidina of Latvia coming in second, while Carolin Schafer of Germany finished third.
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Theisen-Eaton’s main competitor going into the final day was Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain, who is the only other person to win the heptathlon title at Gotzis in the last four meets.
Johnson-Thompson, however, faded when she failed to land a top long jump mark, while Theisen-Eaton leapt to a field-leading 6.56 metres for 1027 points.
The Canadian followed up her long jump exploits with a personal best javelin throw 47.74m, scoring another 816 points while Johnson-Thompson continued to struggle, throwing well below her career high.
In the final event on Sunday, Theisen-Eaton – then comfortably ahead and in one of her stronger events – ran the second fastest 800m time, a 2:10.98 clocking that brought her 963 points.
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Theisen-Eaton had gone into Sunday’s finale with 3972 points after four of seven events on Saturday. In the 100-metre hurdles the Canadian finished in a personal best 12.93 seconds (1135 points); cleared 1.83m in high jump (1016); launched 13.71m in shot put (775); and sprinted to career fastest 23.33s in the 200m (1046).
Canadians swept the heptathlon and decathlon titles on Sunday, with Damian Warner winning the men’s field. Theisen-Eaton and Warner had previously recorded the Canadian sweep in 2013.
