A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά and ἄθλος. A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.
Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points, and remains the only person to exceed 9000 points twice. His world record was broken by Frenchman Kevin Mayer on September 16, 2018, with a total of 9,126 points, who became the third man to pass the 9,000-point barrier.
Eusebio Cáceres López is a Spanish track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump.
Damian David George Warner is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and a four-time world medallist. Warner also won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the 2014 Commonwealth champion and a two-time Pan American champion from the 2015 and 2019 Games. Competing in the heptathlon, he is the 2022 World Indoor champion.
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson is an English athlete. A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic silver medallist. In indoor pentathlon, she is a world and double European champion.
Kevin Mayer is a French athlete specialising in decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He is two-time world champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist and the world record holder in the decathlon since 2018. He is also a world and three-time European champion in heptathlon.
Morgan Lake is a British high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and placed fourth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Lake finished sixth in the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and fourth in the 2018 World Indoor Championships.
Kai Kazmirek is a German track and field athlete who competes in the decathlon. He holds a personal best of 8580 points for the event achieved in Rio 2016, as well as an indoor heptathlon best of 6173 points. He is a member of LG Rhein-Wied athletics club.
Nadine Visser is a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the combined events until 2017 and specialises in short hurdling since 2018.
Jorge Ureña Andreu is a Spanish athlete competing in the combined events. He won the silver medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships. In addition, he finished seventh at the 2015 European Indoor Championships.
Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou is a Greek long jump athlete, who is 14th in the all time lists, but one of the best in terms of achievements, as he is a double Olympic Champion with multiple World and European titles also to his name in a career which has brought him 11 gold medals.
David Omoregie is a Welsh track and field hurdler who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. He holds a personal best of 13.24 seconds for the event, fifth best among British hurdlers. He set world junior and European junior records in the 60 metres hurdles indoor. He won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics and won the 2015 European Athletics U23 Championships
Molly Caudery is a British athlete who competes in the pole vault event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 World Indoor champion. She was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and took bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Simon Ehammer is an athlete who competes internationally for Switzerland. He competes in 110 m hurdles, decathlon, heptathlon and long jump. He won the long jump event at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships and was the bronze medalist in the long jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Jente Hauttekeete is a Belgian athlete specializing in the heptathlon and the decathlon.
Sofie Dokter is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in the combined events. She was a bronze medalist in the pentathlon at the 2024 World Indoor Championships.
Jana Koščak is a Croatian multi-event track and field athlete. In 2022, she became the European under-18 champion in Pentathlon and Heptathlon. In 2024, she became World U20 Champion in the Heptathlon. She is the Croatian senior national record holder in the heptathlon and pentathlon.
Henriette Jæger is a Norwegian track and field athlete. She is a multiple time national champion, and former U18 world record holder. In 2023, she became the Norwegian record holder over 400 metres.
Markus Rooth is a Norwegian track and field athlete. He won the gold medal in decathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first gold medal for Norway in this event since 1920. He was also the 2023 European U23 champion.
Sven Jansons is a Dutch track and field athlete. He is a national champion in long jump and indoor heptathlon.
