Kamila Chudzik is a retired Polish heptathlete. She won a bronze medal at the Berlin World Championship in August 2009. That success was followed by a series of injuries which effectively ended her career. She officially retired in 2015.
Carolin Schäfer is a German athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Schäfer took bronze at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.
Yorgelis Rodríguez García is a Cuban track and field athlete specialising in the heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2013 World Championships finishing twelfth overall. Earlier she won several medals at the World Junior and Youth Championships, including the gold at the 2012 World Junior Championships.
Ester Goossens is a retired Dutch athlete who competed in a variety of events, including the 400 metres, 800 metres and 400 metres hurdles. She represented her country at the 1997 World Championships and 1999 World Indoor Championships.
Caroline Agnou is a Swiss athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China, finishing 22nd. Earlier that year she won the gold at the 2015 European Junior Championships. Her personal best in heptathlon is 6123 points set in Eskilstuna in 2015. She has a Swiss-German mother and a Beninese father.
Salcia Venecia Slack is a Jamaican athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without finishing the competition. Her biggest success to date is the fifth place at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Paweł Wiesiołek is a Polish athlete competing in the decathlon. He represented his country at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing finishing 17th and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Jérémy Lelièvre is a French athlete competing in combined events. He represented his country in the heptathlon at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing eighth.
Evelis Jazmin Aguilar Torres is a Colombian athlete competing in the combined events. Earlier in her career she specialised in the 400 metres sprint.
Verena Mayr is an Austrian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2017, Mayr took a silver in the heptathlon at the European Under-23 Championships and a gold at the Summer Universiade.
Selloane Joyce Tsoaeli is a female track and field athlete from Lesotho who competes in the heptathlon and the high jump. She was the high jump gold medallist at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics and was a heptathlon bronze medallist at the same event. She also took heptathlon bronze at the 2011 All-Africa Games.
Holly Mills is an English long jumper and heptathlete. She finished fourth both in the pentathlon at the 2022 World Indoor Championships and in the heptathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Mills won bronze medals for the heptathlon at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships and for the long jump at the 2019 European U20 Championships.
Noor Vidts is a Belgian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 and 2024 World Indoor Championships. Vidts placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She earned silver and bronze for the pentathlon at the 2021 and 2023 European Indoor Championships respectively.
Sarah Lagger is an Austrian athlete competing in the combined events. As a junior she won a gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2016 World U20 Championships and a silver at the 2018 edition.
Solène Ndama is a French athlete competing in the 100 metres hurdles, heptathlon and pentathlon.
The Jamaican Athletics Championships is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Jamaica.
Emma Oosterwegel is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the combined events. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Claudia Conte Martínez is a Spanish heptathlete. She won a silver medal at the 2021 European U23 Championships.
The women's heptathlon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 17 and 18 July 2022. The winning margin was 80 points.
2022 in athletics was a year highlighted by an unusual number of significant athletics events. The delayed 2020 Olympic program led to the 2021 World Athletics Championships being rearranged for 2022, while events normally held in the middle years of Olympic cycles, such as the Commonwealth Games athletics program and the various continental championships were also held, meaning significant numbers of athletes had several peaks in quick succession, particularly Canadian, British, Australian, Kenyan and South African athletes.
