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Chari Hawkins in the heptathlon 200m in Arona

Damian Warner in the decathlon discus in Gotzis

Simon Ehammer, Damian Warner and Pierce LePage in the 100m in Götzis

Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner achieved a record seventh victory at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis while Olympic silver medallist Anouk Vetter became the first Dutch winner at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting on Sunday (29).
Warner trailed rising Swiss star Simon Ehammer on the first day as the world indoor silver medallist sailed out to a world decathlon best of 8.45m in the long jump. But Warner regained the lead at the start of day two and held on to the end, winning with 8797.
Vetter also only moved into the lead on Sunday as she chased world indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek for most of the two-day competition. But a meeting record of 59.81m in the javelin gave Vetter an unassailable lead ahead of the final discipline and she eventually won with 6693.
On the hunt for yet another G&ouml;tzis victory, Warner got his campaign off to a strong start with a 10.14 run, missing his 100m PB and own world decathlon best set in the same town in 2019 by 0.02. Ehammer also showed he meant business with a 10.46 PB, while Canada&rsquo;s Pierce LePage ran 10.35.
Next up was the long jump &ndash; Ehammer&rsquo;s time to shine. Just three weeks earlier, the 22-year-old had jumped 8.30m in Ratingen, improving the 8.28m world decathlon best that Warner set en route to his victory in G&ouml;tzis last year. It also broke the Swiss long jump record that had stood for almost 20 years and helped him on his way to a 8354-point national decathlon record.
Adding 15 centimetres to that mark, Ehammer achieved the best long jump in the world so far this season in the very first round and his delight was clear as he jumped out of the pit and started celebrating. That result launched him into the lead after two events and it was an advantage he wouldn&rsquo;t relinquish on day one.
Warner achieved the next best long jump mark of 7.93m and Estonia&rsquo;s Hans-Christian Hausenberg leapt 7.85m. LePage managed 7.49m but took no further part in the competition. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/629272f983337e439b66a048.jpg" alt="Simon Ehammer celebrates his 8.45m long jump in G&ouml;tzis" />
Simon Ehammer celebrates his 8.45m long jump in G&ouml;tzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Victor was strongest in the shot and wasn&rsquo;t too far off his PB with 16.28m as the only athlete to surpass 16 metres. Warner closed the gap on the leader with a 14.92m put to Ehammer&rsquo;s 14.42m.
USA&rsquo;s Hunter Price, making his G&ouml;tzis debut, cleared 2.09m to top the high jump results ahead of Estonia&rsquo;s world silver medallist Maicel Uibo (2.06m), as Warner and Ehammer both managed 2.03m.
Netherlands&rsquo; Rik Taam then stormed to a 400m PB of 47.28 and Warner powered to a time of 47.92. Ehammer&rsquo;s 48.44 saw him hold on to top spot overnight, but only just.
Warner finally regained his lead in the first event of the second day, though the gap between him and Ehammer in the 110m hurdles wasn&rsquo;t too significant, 13.48 to 13.75. Ehammer&rsquo;s Swiss teammate Finley Gaio was close behind with 13.86, enough to move up to third overall.
Warner extended his leading margin in the discus as his 48.24m effort was more than 10 metres farther than Ehammer&rsquo;s best (36.98m). But the big story in this event was Lindon Victor&rsquo;s monster heave of 54.85m &ndash; just 30 centimetres shy of the long-standing meeting record &ndash; which moved the Grenadian up to third overall. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/629390aac4732703b35c4275.jpg" alt="Damian Warner in the decathlon discus in Gotzis" />
Damian Warner in the decathlon discus in Gotzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Somewhat surprisingly for a decathlon pole vault competition, the positions of the top six athletes remained the same after the eighth discipline, though the margins changed slightly.
Warner and Ehammer equalled their respective PBs of 4.90m and 5.10m to remain in first and second place. Victor&rsquo;s 4.70m was enough to hold on to third, while Kazmirek &ndash; showing his best form for quite some time &ndash; scaled 5.00m to consolidate his fourth place position ahead of Gaio and Rik Taam. A 5.30m vault from world silver medallist Maicel Uibo, meanwhile, elevated the Estonian from 11th to seventh overall.
Heavy rain and hail started to fall before the javelin, but the conditions didn&rsquo;t seem to affect the performances. World champion Niklas Kaul topped the event with a season&rsquo;s best of 69.29m, moving him into the top five overall for the first time in the competition.
Warner held on to his comfortable lead thanks to a throw of 58.62m, giving him an overall tally of 8108 and a leading margin of 243 points with one discipline still to go. Ehammer set a PB of 55.98m, just enough to hold on to second place overall from Lindon Victor, whose 63.93m throw put him just seven points adrift of Ehammer overall.
Kaul, determined to put in a strong showing after aborting his past three decathlons, took on the leading duties in the 1500m and got progressively quicker en route to a 4:16.31 clocking. Further back, Warner cruised around in 4:38.65 to end the competition with a winning score of 8797, the third-best mark of his career.
At the back of the pack, Victor and Ehammer were locked in their own battle for second place. Victor held on for a 4:55.00 run while a struggling Ehammer finished in 5:08.51. It meant Victor took second place overall with 8447 and Ehammer placed third with a Swiss record of 8377.
Kaul&rsquo;s heroic run in the 1500m moved the German up to fourth overall with 8303, his best score since winning the world title in 2019. Kazmirek was close behind with 8272, also his best mark since 2019. Taam, meanwhile, added more than 100 points to his PB to place sixth with 8246.
<h2>Vetter betters Dutch record</h2>
World indoor bronze medallist Kendell Williams blasted to an early lead in the heptathlon, clocking 13.13 in the 100m hurdles as Vetter ran 13.28 and Sulek 13.61.
Sulek has improved her high jump PB indoors and out this year and she went higher still in G&ouml;tzis, clearing 1.92m on her third attempt after seven first-time clearances from 1.71m to 1.89m to get to that point. That performance took her into the lead overall, followed by Williams who was among three athletes to achieve a 1.80m clearance. Estonia&rsquo;s Liisa-Maria Lusti got closest to Sulek with a 1.86m PB. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62927319c51932482ad50522.jpg" alt="Adrianna Sulek in action in G&ouml;tzis" />
Adrianna Sulek in action in G&ouml;tzis (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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 Benin&rsquo;s Odile Ahouanwanou launched the shot 15.27m to top that event, while Germany&rsquo;s Vanessa Grimm recorded 14.96m, Vetter 14.88m and Finland&rsquo;s world U20 champion Saga Vanninen 14.58m. Sulek improved her PB to 13.79m and held on to her overall lead, with Vetter in second and Ahouanwanou moving up into third.
Another PB followed for Sulek as she ran 23.86 in the 200m to end the day with 3940 points. Britain&rsquo;s two-time G&ouml;tzis winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson, looking to complete her first full heptathlon since her World Championships victory in Doha in 2019, clocked the fastest time of 23.51, while Germany&rsquo;s Sophie Weissenberg recorded a PB of 23.67.
Vetter&rsquo;s 23.76 and Williams&rsquo; 23.77 secured them second and third place respectively overnight.
Vetter and Williams started the second day strongly, both leaping seasons bests of 6.47m in the long jump to close the gap on Sulek, who managed 6.28m.
But the tables turned in the javelin. Vetter opened with 47.14m, which would have been sufficient to overtake Sulek, whose opening throw of 38.66m remained her best of the day. But the Dutch all-rounder improved to 51.39m in round two and then a sensational 59.81m in round three, breaking Nafi Thiam&rsquo;s meeting record by almost half a metre. It&rsquo;s also the best ever throw within a 6000-point heptathlon.
Latvia&rsquo;s Laura Ikauniece (53.93m) and Emma Oosterwegel (52.53m) were the only other athletes to throw beyond 50 metres.
It meant that Vetter went into the 800m with a 372-point lead, essentially meaning the title was hers to lose. Competing in heavy rain and hail, Sulek won the fourth and final heat of the 800m in 2:13.80, but Vetter&rsquo;s 2:21.56 clocking sealed the crown with a score of 6693, adding four points to the Dutch record she set in Tokyo last year. Sulek was rewarded with a PB of 6429.
Grimm continued to put in a consistent series throughout the second day and emerged in third place with a PB of 6323, 22 points ahead of Multistars winner Annik Kalin. Johnson-Thompson finished down in seventh place with 6174, behind Oosterwegel (6265) and Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills (6260).
<h3>Leading results</h3>
Heptathlon 1 Anouk Vetter (NED) 6693 2 Adrianna Sulek (POL) 6429 3 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 6323 4 Annik Kalin (SUI) 6301 5 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 6265 6 Holly Mills (GBR) 6260 7 Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) 6174 8 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 6173
Decathlon 1 Damian Warner (CAN) 8797 2 Lindon Victor (GRN) 8447 3 Simon Ehammer (SUI) 8377 4 Niklas Kaul (GER) 8303 5 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 8272 6 Rik Taam (NED) 8246 7 Maicel Uibo (EST) 8067 8 Hunter Price (USA) 7996

Warner scores 8797, Vetter breaks Dutch record with 6693

Warner wins again, Vetter victorious in Götzis

Damian Warner may have earned the biggest accolade in the sport with his Olympic decathlon title last year, but his reign as king of combined events began long before that with his historic streak of victories at the Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis.
The Canadian all-rounder will return to the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting this weekend (28-29) in pursuit of a record-extending seventh victory. He&rsquo;ll take on a strong field that includes world champion Niklas Kaul and rising Swiss star Simon Ehammer, who pushed Warner all the way at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 earlier this year.
World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, meanwhile, leads the heptathlon field. The Briton faces Olympic silver medallist Anouk Vetter, world indoor bronze medallist Kendell Williams and the returning Laura Ikauniece, among others.
Warner will be contesting his first decathlon of the year, but the vastly experienced 32-year-old rarely shows any sign of early season rust. He went into the World Indoor Championships off the back of just one low-key hurdles race, yet emerged from Belgrade with the gold medal and a national record of 6489, elevating him to No.2 on the world indoor all-time list.
He opened his outdoor season last month with a 49.07m throw in the discus, one of the best marks of his career, and a wind-assisted 20.63 run over 200m, which suggests his form is as good as it has been in the past 12 months &ndash; the same form that carried him to a 8995 victory in G&ouml;tzis last year and a 9018 triumph at the Olympics, making him just the fourth man in history to surpass 9000 points in the decathlon.
There may not be anyone else in the field who can match that overall score, but there are several athletes who&rsquo;ll push Warner in each individual discipline. Ehammer, for example, broke Warner&rsquo;s world decathlon best in the long jump earlier this month, soaring out to 8.30m en route to his triumph in Ratingen. The 22-year-old is also a strong sprint hurdler, so will likely be close to Warner in that discipline too. And the strong line-up in G&ouml;tzis could be just what Ehammer needs to improve on his recent Swiss decathlon record of 8354.
Kaul hasn&rsquo;t quite regained the form he showed when winning the world title in 2019 with 8691, but the 24-year-old has come relatively close to his PBs in the 110m hurdles, pole vault and long jump so far this year. Given the strength of the field, this is about as good a test as he&rsquo;ll get ahead of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
His German compatriots Arthur Abele and Kai Kazmirek are very much in the same boat when it comes to trying to recapture their best form. Abele, the European champion, last completed a decathlon back in September 2018. Kazmirek didn&rsquo;t finish in Ratingen earlier this month or at the World Indoor Championships, but he was seventh in G&ouml;tzis last year and went on to place 14th at the Olympics.
Warner&rsquo;s strongest opposition this weekend could come from his fellow Canadian Pierce LePage. The 26-year-old placed fifth at the 2019 World Championships and at last year&rsquo;s Olympics, scoring a PB of 8604. LePage, who finished second to Warner in G&ouml;tzis last year, set a discus PB of 51.38m last month and an indoor shot put PB of 15.81m earlier in the year, so appears to be in top form.
World silver medallist Maicel Uibo of Estonia and Lindon Victor of Grenada, both vastly experienced and formidable competitors, should also be in the mix this weekend. Meanwhile, world U20 champion Frantisek Doubek of the Czech Republic will contest his first decathlon since becoming a senior athlete.
A lot has happened since Johnson-Thompson won her second Hypo-Meeting title in 2019.
The Briton won the world title a few months later, battled injuries for much of 2020 and 2021 but made it to the startline of the Olympic heptathlon in Tokyo and was competitive in the first three events, only for another injury to strike at the mid-way point of the competition, forcing her to withdraw. Since then, she has also relocated to the US to join a new training group.
She accepted a wildcard invitation to compete at the World Indoor Championships but ultimately wasn&rsquo;t quite at a point where she was competitive and so withdrew before the 800m. Her early season results outdoors have been a bit more promising, including a wind-assisted 6.41m leap at the recent Wanda Diamond League meeting in Birmingham.
This weekend the 29-year-old hopes to achieve her first completed heptathlon since her World Championships victory almost three years ago, and she&rsquo;ll face a strong field.
Dutch duo Anouk Vetter and Emma Oosterwegel will be formidable opponents. Vetter, the Olympic silver medallist, has shown strong form in individual disciplines already this year, including wind-assisted marks of 13.16 in the 100m hurdles and 6.58m in the long jump, plus a 15.24m throw in the shot put.
Olympic bronze medallist Oosterwegel, meanwhile, ran a wind-assisted 13.44 in the 100m hurdles and threw well beyond 50 metres in the javelin last weekend. No Dutch athlete has ever won in G&ouml;tzis, but there&rsquo;s a chance that drought could end this weekend.
Ikauniece will also be one to watch. The 2015 world bronze medallist finished second to Johnson-Thompson in G&ouml;tzis in 2019 but was then forced to withdraw from the World Championships due to injury. She hasn&rsquo;t started a heptathlon since June 2019, but she returned to competition this year and recently threw 13.90m in the shot and 52.14m in the javelin, suggesting she&rsquo;s in good form ahead of this weekend.
Cuba&rsquo;s Yorgelis Rodriguez, like Johnson-Thompson, also crashed out of the Olympic Games last year, but she&rsquo;s usually a strong opponent in any heptathlon.
Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek and USA&rsquo;s Kendell Williams, the world indoor silver and bronze medallists respectively, will also be in action this weekend. Sulek recently won in Bydgoszcz with 6290 but she hopes to get closer to &ndash; or even beyond &ndash; the World Championships qualifying standard of 6420 this weekend. Williams, as the winner of the 2021 Combined Events Tour, has already got a wildcard entry for the World Championships.
Others to look out for include recent Multistars winner Annik Kalin of Switzerland, world U20 champion Saga Vanninen of Finland, Ireland&rsquo;s Kate O&rsquo;Connor and Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills.
<h3>Leading entries</h3>
Women Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) 6981 Laura Ikauniece (LAT) 6815 Yorgelis Rodriguez (CUB) 6742 Anouk Vetter (NED) 6689 Kendell Williams (USA) 6683 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 6590 Annik Kalin (SUI) 6398 Ekaterina Voronina (UZB) 6346 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 6316 Adrianna Sulek (POL) 6315 Kate O&rsquo;Connor (IRL) 6297 Sophie Weissenberg (GER) 6293 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 6274 Saga Vanninen (FIN) 6271
Men Damian Warner (CAN) 9018 Niklas Kaul (GER) 8691 Arthur Abele (GER) 8605 Pierce LePage (CAN) 8604 Maicel Uibo (EST) 8604 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 8580 Lindon Victor (GRN) 8539 Simon Ehammer (SUI) 8354 Pawel Wiesiolek (POL) 8333 Tim Nowak (GER) 8229 Niels Pittomvils (BEL) 8222 Joseph Delgado (USA) 8161 Risto Lillemets (EST) 8156 Rik Taam (NED) 8107

Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner and world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson lead the competitive fields

Warner seeks seventh victory, while Johnson-Thompson returns to Götzis

World indoor silver medallist Adrianna Sulek led the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial heptathlon from start to finish while Czech decathlon champion Ondrej Kopecky broke the 8000-point barrier for the first time at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in Bydgoszcz on Sunday (15).
Sulek&rsquo;s winning score of 6290 was just 25 points shy of her lifetime best. Kopecky, meanwhile, gave himself an early birthday present &ndash; he turned 24 the day after the competition &ndash; and added more than 400 points to his PB with his 8041 tally.
Sulek was the only heptathlete to dip inside 14 seconds in the 100m hurdles, opening her account with 13.70. An outdoor PB of 1.87m in the high jump increased her lead over Dorota Skrivanova of the Czech Republic.
The Pole came within one centimetre of her PB in the shot put (13.20m) and rounded out her first day with a 24.34 clocking in the 200m, giving her a leading score of 3777, more than 250 points ahead of Skrivanova, who was just ahead of Sulek in the 200m (24.32).
Skrivanova &ndash; who finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade &ndash; topped the long jump with a leap of 6.24m, while Sulek managed 6.14m. But Sulek increased her lead in the javelin, throwing 40.37m to Skrivanova&rsquo;s 32.91m.
Poland&rsquo;s Edyta Bielska dominated the 800m and ran 2:07.48, with Skrivanova (2:10.29) and Sulek (2:11.25) relatively close behind. Sulek&rsquo;s clocking brought her winning tally to 6290, while Skrivanova was rewarded with a PB of 5926.
&ldquo;Were it not for the fact that this was the Wieslaw Czapiewski Memorial, I would have run the 800m in about 2:15, just enough to hold on to victory, but since this competition is in memorial of my former coach, there was no room for poor results,&rdquo; said Sulek, who was coached by Czapiewski up until his death in 2019. &ldquo;I decided to run my lungs out and fight in the 800m. My score may have been just short of my PB, but I know that I gave 100% today. And in the near future I&rsquo;ll be faster and stronger.&rdquo;
Kopecky got off to a strong start in the decathlon, winning the 100m in 11.06 and the long jump with a PB of 7.47m. Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek (14.85m) and Lithuania&rsquo;s Edgaras Benkunskas (14.64m) applied pressure in the shot put, but Kopecky&rsquo;s 13.46m heave was enough for the Czech all-rounder to maintain his lead.
Wiesiolek took no further part in the competition, but Benkunskas took the lead after clearing 2.04m in the high jump. Kopecky managed 1.89m but rebounded in the 400m with a big PB of 48.54, giving him a first-day score of 4057, 66 points ahead of Benkunskas.
The lead duo were close in the first event of the second day, Benkunskas winning the 110m hurdles from Kopecky, 14.32 to 14.35. But Kopecky pulled ahead in the discus (44.06m) and pole vault (5.10m).
Benkunskas gained a bit of ground in the javelin, throwing 61.11m to Kopecky&rsquo;s 57.86m, but the Czech leader had a comfortable lead going into the 1500m and duly won that event in 4:43.42, gaining the overall victory with 8041. Benkunskas finished second with 7689.

Sulek scores 6290, Kopecky sets big PB of 8041

Sulek and Kopecky dominate in Bydgoszcz

Results including a world decathlon best of 8.30m in the long jump helped Simon Ehammer on his way to a Swiss record of 8354 points, while Sophie Wiessenberg maintained her lead to win the heptathlon ahead of her German compatriot Carolin Schafer at the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting this weekend (7-8).
On the first day of the World Athletics Combined Events Gold fixture, Ehammer returned to competition for the first time since taking world indoor silver in Belgrade and broke the Swiss long jump record that had stood for almost 20 years, giving the 22-year-old a lead that he would not relinquish.
His competition had started with a 10.65 run in the 100m &ndash; the fastest of the day &ndash; before he followed it with his record-breaking leap.
On a day when most other jumpers struggled to produce big marks &ndash; the next-best athlete, Malik Diakite, jumped 7.35m &ndash; Ehammer improved with each round, opening with 7.69m, improving to 7.97m and then finishing with his mammoth effort.
Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner owned the previous world decathlon best with the 8.28m he jumped en route to his victory in G&ouml;tzis last year. 
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 Another meeting record fell in the next event, this time thanks to Nico Beckers, who heaved his shot out to a lifetime best of 16.63m. Overall leader Ehammer threw an outdoor PB of 14.68m, but world champion Niklas Kaul and 2017 world bronze medallist Kai Kazmirek &ndash; as had been the case in the first two disciplines &ndash; finished further down the field, throwing 13.73m and 13.78m respectively, some way off their best form.
German champion Tim Nowak moved up the field after the high jump, thanks to his outdoor PB clearance of 2.07m. Ehammer was close behind, scaling 2.04m to maintain his overall lead.
In the 400m, the final decathlon discipline of the first day, Kaul and Kazmirek took a few strides out of their blocks once the gun had fired but then stepped off the track. Kaul later explained that he had a headache and felt dizzy.
Ehammer clocked a solid 48.30 to bring his score to 4583 &ndash; 125 points up on the pace from his 8231 PB score from two years ago. Germany&rsquo;s Malik Diakite uncorked a huge PB of 46.76 in the 400m to break the meeting record.
Beckers finished the first day in second place overall with 4320, some 263 points adrift, while Marcel Meyer was third with 4111.
Ehammer picked up from where he left off at the start of day two, going quickest by a big margin in the 110m hurdles with 13.75.
Sweden&rsquo;s Marcus Nilsson was the dominant force in the discus, throwing 46.88m for a mark more than two metres further than any of his rivals. Another PB performance helped Ehammer to maintain his lead, the Swiss rising star throwing 39.13m to add almost three metres to his previous best.
Ehammer was then among the three athletes to soar clear at 5.00m in the pole vault, with Nowak matching his outdoor PB and Nilsson also managing the height. The leader remained on target for a Swiss record, with two events to go.
Germany&rsquo;s Jan Ruhrmann was a class apart in the javelin, adding three metres to his PB with 66.75m, as Ehammer threw 53.01m.
As they lined up for the 1500m, the Swiss record and a qualifying score for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 remained in reach for the leader. Running 4:57.55, Ehammer crossed the finish line victorious &ndash; improving the Swiss record by more than 100 points and surpassing the standard for Oregon by four points.
Nilsson ended his strong second day with the fastest time of 4:20.02 and moved up a place into fourth (7927) behind Ehammer, Nowak (8160) and Beckers (7940).
&ldquo;Those were two incredibly beautiful days,&rdquo; said Ehammer. &ldquo;A great start to the season in a great atmosphere. The long jump was of course the best &ndash; I didn't think I could jump 8.30m at such an early stage.
&ldquo;It was my first decathlon since 2020, so of course it's awesome to start with a Swiss record and World Championships standard.&rdquo;
He will next compete in G&ouml;tzis later this month.
&ldquo;I know that I can do even more in all disciplines and that I want more."
<h2>Weissenberg reigns in&nbsp;Ratingen</h2>
In the heptathlon, 2019 European U23 silver medallist Weissenberg held a narrow lead overnight but with just 76 points separating the top three contenders, there was still everything to play for.
At the start of day one, 2017 world silver medallist Schafer&nbsp;took an early lead after running 13.57 in the 100m hurdles. France&rsquo;s Leonie Cambours was close behind with 13.58 and Weissenberg was third overall with 13.78.
Cambours then cleared 1.80m in the high jump, giving her the overall lead from Weissenberg, who managed 1.77m. A 1.71m leap from Schafer meant she dropped down the standings briefly.
USA&rsquo;s Shaina Burns entered the fray with a 14.70m heave in the shot, elevating her to fourth overall, close behind Weissenberg (who threw 13.59m), Schaefer (13.98m) and Cambours (12.04m).
Weissenberg extended her lead thanks to a 24.03 clocking in the 200m &ndash; the fastest of the day &ndash; giving her a bit more breathing room over Schafer (24.40) and Cambours (24.44). Weissenberg ended the day with 3696, while Schafer&nbsp;was second (3643) and Cambours third (3620).
Weissenberg is the 2016 world U20 long jump silver medallist and she showed her strength in that discipline at the start of day two, leaping 6.21m. That was the second-best mark behind Lovisa Karlsson&rsquo;s 6.27m &ndash; the performance moving the Swedish athlete into fifth place. Weissenberg remained at the top of the standings, while Cambours overtook Schafer&nbsp;and moved into second place.
A 48.00m javelin throw by Weissenberg was the best of the competition and Schafer regained second place with one event to go, throwing 47.81m &ndash; 170 points separating the top two.
A time of 2:17 was needed in the 800m for Weissenberg to improve her overall PB and while that was out of reach, she did more than enough for victory and ran 2:18.72 for her 6273-point score &shy;&ndash; a qualifying standard for the European Championships on home soil.
Schafer&rsquo;s 2:13.95 PB contributed to her 6170-point tally for second place, while Cambours was third with 5933.
"I'm incredibly happy, because I didn't think I would win in Ratingen,&rdquo; said Weissenberg. &ldquo;The atmosphere was incredibly good.&rdquo; Her aim now will be the World Championships standard of 6420 in G&ouml;tzis.
<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/calendar-results/7174019/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
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World indoor silver medallist leaps world decathlon best of 8.30m in long jump

Ehammer nails huge leap in Ratingen while Weissenberg wins heptathlon

Germany&rsquo;s world champion Niklas Kaul and 2017 world silver medallist Carolin Schafer lead the fields for the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting this weekend (7-8), when the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold series moves on to the German town for the event's 25th anniversary celebrations.
Kaul will go up against his compatriot Kai Kazmirek, world indoor silver medallist&nbsp;Simon Ehammer&nbsp;and five other decathletes to have surpassed 8000 points, while six heptathletes &ndash; including Schafer with her 6836 PB &ndash; have broken the 6000-point barrier in the seven-event discipline.
Athletes will have the qualification standards for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 and European Championships in Munich in their sights, with the respective marks for the global event being 8350 for the decathlon and 6420 in the heptathlon.
<h2>Kaul vs Kazmirek in top domestic clash</h2>
Kaul gained a surprise gold at the World Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019, aged just 21. Two-and-a-half years later he will start his combined events season on home soil in Ratingen in a year that offers a world title defence in Oregon and a continental championships on home soil.
The now 24-year-old is entitled to a wild card entry for Oregon as the defending champion but Kazmirek is in a similar position as the winner of the 2021 Combined Events Challenge. Should they both wish to compete, it will be down to the German Athletics Federation to decide which wild card entry to accept, so both athletes will be using Ratingen to demonstrate their form and secure precious world rankings points.
The European Championships on home soil is understandably a big goal, however, and Kaul was fourth at the 2018 edition, also held in Germany. The 2016 world U20 champion achieved his 8691 PB when winning his senior world title in Doha but has completed just one decathlon since then, scoring 8263 in G&ouml;tzis last year.
With his place for the Olympic Games in Tokyo all but secured, he decided to end his competition early in Ratingen last year. He also did not complete the full 10 events in Tokyo but that was due to injury. This will be Kaul&rsquo;s first decathlon since then and he started his season with a 4.90m pole vault clearance, 14.60 110m hurdles and 45.22m discus throw at a meeting in Frankfurt at the start of this month.
Kazmirek, meanwhile, scored his 8580 PB when finishing fourth at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and then last year topped the standings in the Combined Events Challenge following a season that included an 8190 score in G&ouml;tzis and 8184 win in Ratingen. He competed at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March but was unable to finish due to stomach problems.
Rising star Ehammer was runner-up in that Belgrade heptathlon, securing silver behind Olympic champion Damian Warner with a 6363-point Swiss record. Last year&rsquo;s European U23 long jump champion returns to decathlon action in Ratingen, looking to improve on his 8231 PB from 2020 and having been unable to complete his competition in G&ouml;tzis last June.
As well as his world silver medal win, the 22-year-old&rsquo;s performances during the indoor season included a 8.26m long jump - the furthest ever leap recorded in an indoor heptathlon &ndash; in Aubiere in January.&nbsp;
Lining up alongside them will be Germany&rsquo;s Mathias Brugger (8304 PB), who returns to competition for the first time since the Ratingen meeting in June last year, plus Tim Nowak (8229 PB), Andreas Bechmann (8142 PB) and Sweden&rsquo;s Marcus Nilsson, who achieved his PB of 8120 points in Ratingen in 2018.
<h2>Schafer heads heptathlon</h2>
Schafer had been due to compete in Ratingen last June en route to the Olympic Games, but unexpected vaccination side effects put paid to the 2017 world silver medallist&rsquo;s plans. The 30-year-old still managed to compete in Tokyo, however, and achieved 6419 points to finish seventh, two spots behind her placing at the Rio Games five years earlier. 
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Carolin Schafer competes in Tokyo (&copy; Getty Images)
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Now she does return to Ratingen, and this will be her first heptathlon since Tokyo, where a javelin PB of 54.10m were among her results.
Like her training partner Kaul, Schafer also started her season in Frankfurt a few days ago and clocked 13.70 in the 100m hurdles, while she also threw the javelin 49.73m. Her 6836 PB was achieved when finishing second in G&ouml;tzis in 2017, the same year as her first win in Ratingen. She retained her title in 2018 and then claimed bronze at that year&rsquo;s European Championships on home soil in Berlin.
Belgium&rsquo;s Hanne Maudens will also be among those looking for a strong performance in Germany. The 25-year-old, who claimed bronze medals at the 2016 World U20 Championships and 2019 European U23 Championships, set her 6252 PB in G&ouml;tzis in 2018. She focused on the 400m last year &ndash; improving her PB to 53.06 &ndash; but made a combined events comeback during the indoor season.
Joining them will be Germany&rsquo;s 2019 European U23 silver medallist Sophie Weissenberg, who set a series of PBs &ndash; in the 60m hurdles, high jump and shot put &ndash; indoors earlier this year. Ratingen will be her outdoor season debut and she also plans to compete in G&ouml;tzis &ndash; another Combined Events Tour Gold meeting &ndash; in June. Her 6293 PB was set in the Austrian town in 2019.
Other athletes on the entry list to have surpassed 6000 points so far are French champion Leonie Cambours (6192 PB), who finished seventh in the pentathlon in Belgrade, plus Germany&rsquo;s Anna Maiwald (6119 PB) and Britain&rsquo;s Katie Stainton (6029 PB).
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Germany’s 2019 world champion Niklas Kaul and 2017 world silver medallist Carolin Schafer lead the fields for the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting.

Kaul, Ehammer and Schafer star in Ratingen

Markus Rooth overtook compatriot Sander Skotheim in the final three disciplines to take a narrow decathlon victory at Multistars, while Annik Kalin dominated the heptathlon at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in Grosseto on Sunday (1).
Rooth&rsquo;s winning score of 8307 was a Norwegian record, and Skotheim&rsquo;s runner-up tally of 8298 also exceeded the previous national mark. Kalin, meanwhile, set a Swiss record of 6398 to win by almost 400 points.
European U20 silver medallist Skotheim, still a teenager until the end of May, held the overnight lead after setting PBs in all five events in what is his first senior decathlon. But the 19-year-old was overtaken by his marginally older compatriot as both men produced huge PBs.
Kalin, meanwhile, led the heptathlon from the first event and smashed her PB by more than 200 points.
Skotheim started as he meant to go on, setting a 100m PB of 11.17, but several men were quicker. France&rsquo;s Arthur Prevost was the quickest overall in that event, clocking 10.66, while Italian indoor heptathlon record-holder Dario Dester set a PB of 10.76. Estonian champion Kristjan Rosenberg finished third in 10.85 ahead of his compatriot Risto Lillemets (10.90).
Skotheim leapt up the standings after the long jump as he produced the best marks of the day: a wind-legal PB of 7.74m (1.3m/s) and a marginally wind-aided 7.77m (2.1m/s). At the end of the event Skotheim was third in the overall standings behind Dester, who equalled his 7.61m PB, and Norway&rsquo;s Markus Rooth (7.70m).
Pieter Braun, the 2015 European U23 champion, topped the shot put after setting a PB of 15.67m, elevating him to third overall. Rooth improved his outdoor PB to 14.25m to take the lead from Dester, who improved his PB to 13.90m.
After setting a shot put PB of 13.81m, Skotheim added six centimetres to his high jump PB &ndash; substantial in decathlon terms &ndash; with a 2.16m clearance. With just two other men jumping higher than 2.00m, it gave the young Norwegian a comfortable lead of 127 points over his compatriot Rooth and Dester, both of whom cleared 1.95m. Braun cleared 1.92m and slipped to fourth.
Skotheim ended the day with a fifth PB, clocking 48.76 for 400m to bring his day-one tally to 4370. With Dester running 47.76, it meant Skotheim&rsquo;s winning margin reduced slightly to 108 points over the Italian, who currently sits in second place. Rooth and Braun, who ran 49.52 and 48.71 respectively, remain in third and fourth overall.
Prevost, as was the case in the 100m, was the fastest overall in the 400m, running 47.60 to elevate him to fifth overall in the standings.
Skotheim&rsquo;s run of PBs continued on day two as he clocked 14.81 (-0.6m/s) in the 110m hurdles, but his lead was reduced to just 41 points as Dester ran 14.40 and Rooth clocked 14.46. Brazil&rsquo;s Jos&eacute; Fernando Ferreira Santana was fastest overall with 14.27, while Braun recorded a solid 14.58 but then withdrew from the competition with a foot injury.
As was the case in the hurdles, Skotheim&rsquo;s throw in the discus (43.67m) was a PB by default as it was the first time he had contested that discipline with senior implements. It kept him afloat in the lead, but Rooth overtook Dester after throwing 45.80m to the Italian&rsquo;s 41.65m PB.
The pole vault was a turning point, namely for 20-year-old Rooth, who scaled a lifetime best of 5.05m. Skotheim managed just 4.65m, and the 40-centimetre differential proved costly for the teenager as Rooth moved into the lead.
Prevost was second best in the pole vault with 4.95m, while Dester vaulted 4.65m and remained in third place.
Skotheim narrowed the gap on Rooth after throwing a PB of 61.55m in the javelin. Rooth managed 60.83m, while Santana topped the event with 62.70m, moving up to sixth overall.
Rooth went into the final discipline with a 34-point advantage &ndash; worth roughly five seconds in 1500m terms. Skotheim went for it and, working off the likes of Dester, produced a huge PB of 4:29.11. But Rooth also uncorked the run of his life and stayed within a few seconds of his younger compatriot, setting a PB of 4:33.08.
It meant Rooth held on for victory and was rewarded with a national record of 8307. Skotheim&rsquo;s score of 8298 &ndash; the second-best mark in history by a teenager &ndash; also exceeded the previous Norwegian record of 8228, set by Martin Roe at the 2018 edition of Multistars in Florence.
&ldquo;Grosseto is my lucky place,&rdquo; said Rooth, who becomes the third Norwegian to win the Multistars decathlon after Lars Rise in 2016 and Roe in 2018 and 2021. &ldquo;I had a great decathlon with some ups and downs. I am super excited, especially with my PB in the long jump and in the pole vault. I came from behind. I am not a first-day guy, but I tried to catch up at the end. I am now qualified for the European Championships in Munich and I would be excited with a good performance there.&rdquo;
Dester finished third with 8109, improving his own Italian U23 record and moving to second on the Italian all-time list.
<h2>Heptathlon masterclass from Kalin</h2>
The 22-year-old was the fastest in the 100m hurdles, winning in 13.43 (-1.1m/s) &ndash; just 0.06 shy of her PB &ndash; to take an early lead. Italian indoor record-holder Sveva Gerevini improved her PB to 13.60 to finish second overall.
Poland&rsquo;s Paulina Ligarska topped the high jump with a PB of 1.83m, moving her from 14th to second overall. Kalin, meanwhile, cleared 1.77m which was enough to hold on to pole position.
Ligarska kept up the pressure on Kalin, winning the shot put with 14.00m. But Kalin added 62 centimetres to her PB, throwing 13.81m to maintain a 23-point lead over Ligarska. Compatriot Geraldine Ruckstuhl, the 2019 European U23 champion, threw 13.88m.
Kalin ended the day with a 24.50 run over 200m, just 0.04 shy of her PB and almost a second quicker than Ligarska&rsquo;s 25.48 effort. It brought Kalin&rsquo;s day-one score to 3715, remaining on course for a significant heptathlon PB. Gerevini&rsquo;s 23.93 was the fastest 200m clocking of the day, moving the Italian up to third place overall.
Kalin started the second day on a high note, long jumping 6.55m &ndash; just one centimetre shy of her PB and her best ever within a heptathlon &ndash; to extend her overall lead. Ligarska, however, recorded three fouls and exited the competition. It meant Gerevini &ndash; who set an outdoor PB of 6.12m &ndash; moved up into second place overall.
Kalin set a javelin PB of 49.11m to remain on course to break the Ruckstuhl&rsquo;s Swiss record of 6391. Austria&rsquo;s Chiara Schuler set a PB of 50.34m to move up into second place while Spain&rsquo;s European U23 silver medallist Claudia Conte matched Kalik&rsquo;s 49.11m and moved into fourth place overall. Gerevini slipped down to third after throwing 38.44m. Two-time Multistars winner Sofia Ifantidou was the best performer in the event with 51.39m.
Kalik&rsquo;s 2:20.45 clocking in the 800m brought her winning score to 6398. Although it was just 22 points shy of the World Championships qualifying mark, she achieved her other target of breaking the Swiss record.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing. I&rsquo;ve not been able to take part in any heptathlon competition since 2020 because of a back injury,&rdquo; said Kalin, whose next heptathlon will be in G&ouml;tzis at the end of this month. &ldquo;Every event was good; I had no down event. I achieved the qualifying standard for the European Championships in Munich and this performance should be enough to qualify for the World Championships in Eugene.&rdquo;
Gerevini finished second to Poland&rsquo;s Edyta Bielska in the 800m, 2:08.66 to 2:09.81, to set a lifetime best of 6011, becoming the first Italian heptathlete since 2003 to break 6000 points. Conte completed the podium with 5914.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a step forward in my career,&rdquo; said Gerevini. &ldquo;It means a lot to add more than 100 points to my previous PB. I was not in my best shape because of a small injury problem. My goal is to break Gertrud Bacher&rsquo;s Italian record.&rdquo;
Diego Sampaolo for World Athletics

Norwegian decathlon record of 8307 for Markus Rooth, Swiss heptathlon record of 6398 for Annik Kalin

Rooth and Kalin break national records at Multistars

Six decathletes with 8000-point-plus PBs and seven athletes who have broken 6000 points in the heptathlon will battle at the 35th Multistars, the first Gold level meeting of the 2022 World Athletics Combined Events Tour, in Grosseto this weekend (30-1).
Dutch world seventh-place finisher Pieter Braun tops the decathlon list, while Swiss record-holder Geraldine Ruckstuhl leads the heptathlon entries.
Having previously been hosted in Desenzano del Garda, Florence and Lana &ndash; with Spain's Maria Vicente and Norway's Martin Roe claiming victory in the northern Italian town in 2021 &ndash; this year the event takes place in Grosseto for the first time. As well as victory, the respective World Athletics Championships Oregon22 standards of 8350 for the decathlon and 6420 in the heptathlon will also be among the targets for the leading entries.
Braun achieved his 8342-point PB when finishing third behind Damian Warner and Maicel Uibo at the 2018 edition of the G&ouml;tzis Hypo Meeting. He went on to place seventh at the following year&rsquo;s World Athletics Championships in Doha but was unable to finish his heptathlon competition at the European Indoor Championships in Torun the following year due to an ankle problem. His last completed decathlon was the World Championships in 2019, as he gets ready to make a 10-event return following injury struggles and having been forced to withdraw from the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
He will be joined by five other athletes who have surpassed 8000 points in the senior event: Estonia&rsquo;s Kristjan Rosenberg, Risto Lillemets and Taavi Tsernjavski, plus Axel Hubert of France and Venezuela&rsquo;s Georni Jaramillo.
Rosenberg, last year&rsquo;s Estonian champion, will be looking to go one better than his runner-up Multistars finish in 2019, while Lillemets is the 2020 national champion who went on to finish fifth at the 2021 European Indoor Championships, and Tsernjavski claimed his two Estonian titles in 2015 and 2018.&nbsp;
Hubert, who achieved 8000 points for the first time at his own organised decathlon competition in 2020, has since improved to 8260, while 2019 South American champion Jaramillo has a best of 8048.&nbsp;
Last year&rsquo;s European U20 silver medallist Sander Skotheim of Norway also has a PB over 8000 points, achieved in the U20 event, and he makes his senior decathlon debut in Grosseto.
Italy&rsquo;s Dario Dester returns to combined events action after his 10th-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22. Competing on home soil, he will be joined by his teammate in Belgrade, Sveva Gerevini, who finished ninth in the pentathlon after improving the national record to 4451 earlier in the season. 
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Italy's Sveva Gerevini at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Sixth in that global competition in Belgrade was Spain&rsquo;s Claudia Conte, and she also competes in Grosseto. Her PB of 6186, achieved when she claimed European U23 silver last year in Tallinn, puts her second on the Multistars entry list behind Ruckstuhl.
Ruckstuhl, meanwhile, achieved her 6391-point national record in Talence in 2018 and the following year became the European U23 champion and finished ninth at the World Championships in Doha. Like Braun, injury also denied her the chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics and in Grosseto she makes her return to competition for the first time since last June.
Alongside Ruckstuhl and Conte are five other heptathletes to have achieved 6000 points in their careers so far: Switzerland&rsquo;s Annik Kalin, Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Alysbeth Felix Boyer, Sofia Ifantidou of Greece, Poland&rsquo;s Paulina Ligarska and Myke van de Wiel of Netherlands.
Kalin, the 2019 European U20 bronze medallist, achieved her 6170 PB in 2020, while Puerto Rican record-holder and Olympian Felix Boyer&rsquo;s best of 6124 came in Cali in 2016. Two-time Multistars winner Ifantidou&rsquo;s 2012 PB is 6109, while Ligarska scored 6028 last year and Van de Wiel 6012, also in 2021.
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Six decathletes with 8000-point-plus PBs and seven athletes who have broken 6000 points in the heptathlon will battle at the 35th Multistars

Braun and Ruckstuhl lead fields for Multistars in Grosseto

Hans-Christian Hausenberg led an Estonian heptathlon top three on home soil, while Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek improved her pentathlon world lead at the Indoor Combined Events meeting &ndash; a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Silver event &ndash; in Tallinn this weekend (5-6).
Continuing Estonia&rsquo;s strength in the combined events, Hausenberg &ndash; the 2015 world U18 decathlon bronze medallist &ndash; had the heptathlon competition of his life to score 6143 points, breaking the 6000-point barrier for the first time. Risto Lillemets also beat 6000 points, scoring 6006 for second place, while Taavi Tsernjavski was third with 5840 points.
Their compatriot Maicel Uibo, the 2019 world decathlon silver and 2018 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist, was also among those in action &ndash; his results including a 2.19m high jump clearance &ndash; but his competition came to an end when he was unable to record a mark in the pole vault.
Just a single point separated the top two in the pentathlon, with Sulek improving her world-leading score with a PB of 4598 points for a narrow win ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills, who also achieved a personal best with her 4597 tally. That score adds 29 points to the previous world lead Sulek had set at the X-Athletics meeting in Aubiere the weekend before. Ukaraine&rsquo;s Yuliya Loban was third in Tallinn with 4482 points.
Hausenberg opened his campaign with a 60m win in 6.85, close to his PB of 6.82 from 2019, and maintained his lead with an outright long jump personal best of 7.92m. After 14.04m in the shot put &ndash; an event in which Vitaliy Zhuk of Belarus threw 16.46m &ndash; Hausenberg cleared 1.98m in a high jump topped by Uibos&rsquo;s 2.19m. At the end of day one, Hausenberg led with 3492 points ahead of Uibo&rsquo;s 3409.
Hausenberg started day two with a 60m hurdles PB of 7.96 and then cleared 5.22m in the pole vault before clocking 2:58.45 in the 1000m for his 6143-point PB score which places him fourth on this season&rsquo;s top list.
Portugal's Abdel Kader Larrinaga was fourth with 5810 points and Poland's Rafal Horbowicz fifth with 5556.
In the pentathlon, it was Mills who got off to the strongest start as she clocked an 8.17 PB, while Sulek ran 8.41. Sulek was ahead after the high jump thanks to her PB 1.87m clearance, while Mills managed 1.72m after feeling some discomfort in her knee.
Loban led the shot put with a 14.75m throw, with Mills managing 13.10m and Sulek 12.53m. Mills then leapt 6.37m in the long jump and Finland's Maria Huntington led after four events following her leap of 6.26m, with Sulek &ndash; who recorded 6.15m &ndash; sitting third behind Loban and Mills in fourth. Mills then went quickest in the 800m with 2:12.54, while Sulek clocked 2:14.32 to win the competition by one point.
Huntington was fourth with 4476 points and Poland's Paulina Ligarska fifth with 4301.
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Hans-Christian Hausenberg led an Estonian heptathlon top three on home soil.

Hausenberg and Sulek win in Tallinn

Simon Ehammer soared 8.26m for the longest ever long jump recorded in an indoor heptathlon, en route to a 6285-point victory, while Adrianna Sulek claimed a 4569-point pentathlon win at the X-Athletics meeting &ndash; a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Bronze event &ndash; in Aubiere, France, over the weekend (29-30).
Ehammer&rsquo;s long jump mark is also an outright world lead and Swiss indoor record, while as the world heptathlon best it improves on the previous best of 8.16m achieved by two-time Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he won the first of his three world indoor heptathlon titles with a world record score of 6645 points. Ehammer's previous long jump best was 8.15m, recorded outdoors in 2020, while his previous top indoor mark was 7.89m.
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The 21-year-old Ehammer also clocked 6.83 for 60m, threw 14.09m in the shot put and cleared 1.99m in the high jump on the first day of competition in Aubiere, before clocking 7.74 in the 60m hurdles, clearing 5.03m in the pole vault and running 2:54.68 for the 1000m on day two to achieve his world-leading PB of 6285 points. It is the third best ever performance by an U23 athlete, behind Eaton&rsquo;s 6499 points and France&rsquo;s world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer&rsquo;s 6297 points.
It was a Swiss top three in the X-Athletics heptathlon, with Andri Oberholzer finishing second with 5960 points and Finley Gaio placing third with 5838 points. Belgium's Benjamin Hougardy was fourth and Italy's Dario Dester fifth.
Mayer also contested a few of the events and clocked 7.73 for the 60m hurdles, cleared 5.13m in the pole vault, ran 6.92 for 60m and threw 15.58m in the shot put.
In the pentathlon, Poland's European U23 heptathlon champion Sulek also achieved a world lead, setting a 4569-point PB.
She opened her competition with a time of 8.34 in the 60m hurdles, before clearing 1.84m in the high jump, throwing 13.10m in the shot put, leaping 6.01m in the long jump and running 2:14.39 for 800m.
Spain's 2017 world U18 heptathlon champion Maria Vicente was second, coming close to her PB with 4495 points, while France&rsquo;s Leonie Cambours was third with 4457 points and Sveva Gerevini set an Italian record of 4434 points for fourth. Spain&rsquo;s Claudia Conte was fifth and Austria's world bronze medallist Verena Mayr sixth.
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Simon Ehammer set a world heptathlon best mark for the long jump en route to a 6285-point victory.

Ehammer leaps 8.26m en route to heptathlon win in Aubiere

The one-day series of the world&rsquo;s best cross country, combined events and race walking meetings will all move to a three-tier World Tour format from next month.
Adding the final pieces to the jigsaw of the restructuring of international athletics competitions, the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, Combined Events Tour and Race Walking Tour will replace the existing challenge and permit series with a more global spread of fixtures.
A combined amount of more than $400,000 in prize money will be on offer for the best tour performers, including a new pool of $75,000 for the best male and female cross country runners.
The development of these tours is part of a concerted effort by World Athletics to create a logical long-term global calendar of international events. It will also ensure more top-level competition opportunities and exposure for athletes in all areas of the sport.
As with the Continental Tour and World Indoor Tour, competitions within the new tours will be given either gold, silver or bronze status. The calendars for each tour &ndash; more details of which will be provided in the coming weeks &ndash; are already beginning to take shape.
The Cross Country Tour, for example, which gets underway later this month, is expected to have stops in North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe and will incorporate many of the world&rsquo;s biggest and most prestigious cross-country meetings that have been part of the Cross Country Permit series in recent years. Athletes who compete in Cross Country Tour meetings will also earn world cross country ranking points.
"One of our primary goals at World Athletics is to improve the competitive and earning opportunities for elite athletes around the world and these new tour formats are designed to do just that," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said. "They will also create new avenues for fans to watch our leading athletes, either in person or via broadcast or livestream. My thanks goes to World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon and Competition Director, Jakob Larsen, for the work they have been doing on the global competition calendar and the one-day meetings and the team they have now put in place to drive this critical area forward."
All gold-level Cross Country Tour meetings will be shown on the World Athletics YouTube Channel, and World Athletics is working to ensure a similar level of coverage for next year&rsquo;s Combined Events and Race Walking Tours.
In order to support the restructure of the global one-day competition calendar, World Athletics has made the following staff appointments.
Pierce O&rsquo;Callaghan has been appointed as Head of Competition Management after working as a consultant to World Athletics to establish the Continental Tour, expand the World Athletics Indoor Tour and lead the Global Calendar Unit in recent years. He has also been an international referee at four World Athletics Championships and four Olympic Games and was Director of Operations for the 2017 World Championships in London and Director of Readiness for the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Luca Verrascina has joined World Athletics as Competition Manager after serving as a Technical Delegate or International Technical Official at many World Athletics Series events. He was the Head of Competition at the 2016 World Race Walking Team Championships, the 2013 and 2017 European U20 Championships and the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome.
The Competition Department will continue to work on a number of key projects, including the integration of mass participation events into the World Athletics Series, the cohesion of one-day meetings and major championships, the development of the world rankings and qualification pathways for major championships, and a review of the competition rules.
Meeting and race organisers who are interested in having their events included in the new tours should send an email to <a href="mailto:competition@worldathletics.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competition@worldathletics.org</a> for more information.
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<h3>Regulations</h3>
&bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=dbbd6f71-d7c5-490f-a061-64035433ec66.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.7%20-%20Race%20Walking%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Walking Tour</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=8fc6e49c-7132-453d-abcb-91520f41681b.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.8%20-%20Combined%20Events%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combined Events Tour</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=fd7d4bb1-8dae-40a7-84d9-8b4116f99957.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.9%20-%20Cross%20Country%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cross Country Tour</a>

The one-day series of the world’s best cross country, combined events and race walking meetings will all move to a three-tier World Tour format from next month.

World Tour competition structure announced for cross country, combined events and race walking

USA&rsquo;s Kendell Williams and Germany&rsquo;s Kai Kazmirek topped the end-of-season standings in the 2021 World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events.
Williams, who finished third in the 2019 edition of the series, won the overall title for the first time, tallying 19,574 points. Kazmirek, winner of this series back in 2016, landed his second title with a score of 24,500.
Rewarding season-long consistency at the highest level, the scoring system takes each athlete&rsquo;s three best marks from the series and combines the points into an overall score. Prize money is awarded to the top eight finishers at the end of the challenge. The athlete with the highest score wins US$30,000 and a wildcard entry to the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Williams, 26, started her season with her first ever podium finish at the prestigious Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis, scoring 6383. She followed it with a lifetime best of 6683 to take second place at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene. She went on to place fifth at the Olympic Games with 6508 &ndash; her highest ever score at a major championships.
&ldquo;Plenty to smile about this season,&rdquo; she said after the Olympic Games. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always an honour to compete on the biggest stage and I&rsquo;m proud of the way I fought through two hard days of competition.&rdquo;
Williams has now secured a wildcard entry for next year&rsquo;s World Championships on home soil, so won&rsquo;t have to compete for a place on the team at the US Trials.
Spain&rsquo;s rising combined events star Maria Vicente finished second in the standings, following her national record of 6304 to win at the Multistars meeting in Lana, along with her 6274 score in Arone and 6117 performance at the Olympics.
Germany&rsquo;s Vanessa Grimm and Ratingen winner Georgia Ellenwood of Canada were close behind Vicente in the standings with just 60 points separating the trio. Benin&rsquo;s Odile Ahouanwanou, runner-up in Ratingen with a national record of 6274, was fifth.
Kazmirek&rsquo;s top score of the season came in his first decathlon of 2021 when he tallied 8190 to place seventh in G&ouml;tzis. He came close to matching that when winning in Ratingen with 8184, a performance which effectively sealed his place on Germany&rsquo;s Olympic team. He went on to place 14th at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a score of 8126.
&ldquo;This win means a lot to me, because the victory brings with it a wildcard for the World Championships,&rdquo; said Kazmirek.
As he is one of two German athletes with a wildcard, along with world champion Niklas Kaul, it will be down to the German Athletics Federation to decide which wildcard entry to accept for the 2022 World Championships.
Adam Sebastian Helcelet of the Czech Republic achieved runner-up finishes in Lana (8025) and Arona (8058) before placing 16th at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with 8004, giving him second place overall in the challenge standings.
Norway&rsquo;s Martin Roe beat Helcelet in Lana to take victory with 8055, then placed fourth in Arona (8016) and 19th in Tokyo, finishing third overall in the standings. Sweden&rsquo;s Fredrik Samuelsson and Estonia&rsquo;s Taavi Tsernjavski took fourth and fifth respectively. 
<h2>Final standings</h2>
Women 1 Kendell Williams (USA) 19,574 2 Maria Vicente (ESP) 18,695 3 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 18,661 4 Georgia Ellenwood (CAN) 18,635 5 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 18,284 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-challenge-combined-events/standings/2021/women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complete standings</a>
Men 1 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 24,500 2 Adam Sebastian Helcelet (CZE) 24,087 3 Martin Roe (NOR) 23,934 4 Fredrik Samuelsson (SWE) 23,421 5 Taavi Tsernjavski (EST) 23,114 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-challenge-combined-events/standings/2021/men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complete standings</a>

USA’s Kendell Williams and Germany’s Kai Kazmirek topped the end-of-season standings in the 2021 World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events.

Williams and Kazmirek win 2021 World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events

Germany&rsquo;s Kai Kazmirek and Canada&rsquo;s Georgia Ellenwood emerged the winners at the Stadtwerke Mehrkampf-Meeting, thanks to strong second-day performances at the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events meeting in Ratingen on Sunday (20).
With many combined events athletes seeking a last-ditch attempt at boosting their Olympic selection chances, both the decathlon and heptathlon contests were highly competitive. Kazmirek, the 2017 world bronze medallist, lined up against world champion Niklas Kaul and many other talented German decathletes. The heptathlon, meanwhile, featured world bronze medallist Verena Mayr and 2013 world champion Hanna Kasyanova.
Andreas Bechmann took the overall lead after the second event of the decathlon, following a wind-assisted 10.78 clocking in the 100m and a 7.32m leap in the long jump. A 15.38m PB in the shot put meant he extended his overall lead, while Kazmirek &ndash; who had long jumped 7.38m before hurling his shot 14.31m &ndash; sat in second place, 14 points ahead of Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek.
Germany&rsquo;s Tim Nowak was the top performer in the high jump, banking valuable points with his 2.06m clearance and moving into third overall. Bechmann and Kazmirek both cleared 2.03m, meaning their positions remained the same.
Kazmirek made a small dent in Bechmann&rsquo;s lead in the 400m, clocking 47.26 to the leader&rsquo;s 47.68, but the latter maintained his overall lead, ending the first day with 4370. A 48.41 run from Wiesiolek moved the Pole up to fourth overall, 42 points shy of third-placed Nowak.
Kaul, as is often the case on the first day of a high-quality decathlon, was further down the standings in eighth, slightly below the pace he set in G&ouml;tzis last month.
It didn&rsquo;t take long for Kazmirek to overtake Bechmann on day two. The 0.74 difference between them in the 110m hurdles (14.50 and 15.24) was enough to transpose their positions in the overall standings.
They remained in those positions through the next three events as Kazmirek threw 41.89m in the discus, cleared 5.00m in the pole vault and threw 56.69m in the javelin. Bechmann managed 42.23m in the discus, vaulted 4.80m and launched his spear 53.35m.
Kaul also got off to a strong start on day two, clocking a PB of 14.38 in the 110m hurdles. He then followed it with 44.85m in the discus and 4.90m in the pole vault. But, perhaps sensing at this point that no other German decathlete would produce a big enough mark to affect Kaul&rsquo;s likely selection for the Olympics, the 23-year-old withdrew from the competition after eight disciplines.
Nowak, who had been sitting in third place after the discus, suffered a snapped pole in the pole vault and sustained a hand injury in the process, so he too was a non-finisher. And Belgium&rsquo;s Niels Pittomvils, who was in third place before the 1500m, opted against finishing the competition.
It left Kazmirek, Bechmann and Mathias Brugger as the leading contenders going into the final discipline. Brugger uncorked an impressive 4:20.45 to win the 1500m, enough to carry him to 8080 points and ahead of Bechmann on the leader board. But it wasn&rsquo;t quite enough to catch Kazmirek, whose 4:42.00 run gave him a final winning score of 8184. Bechmann eventually finished third with 7955.
<h2>Ellenwood excels on second day</h2>
On Saturday, Odile Ahouanwanou enjoyed one of her best ever starts to a heptathlon.
The 30-year-old from Benin set two national records in the first four disciplines, clocking 13.25 in the 100m hurdles and throwing 15.79m in the shot put.
Her series also included a 1.73m leap in the high jump and a 24.45 run in the 200m, giving her a day-one score of 3830 &ndash; 52 points ahead of the pace she set en route to her lifetime best of 6210, set when finishing eighth at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.
But Finland&rsquo;s Maria Huntington was within striking distance. The 24-year-old ran a slightly wind-assisted 13.16 (2.2m/s) to win the 100m hurdles, then topped the high jump with 1.82m to maintain her lead. A 12.50m throw in the shot put meant she surrendered her lead to Ahouanwanou, but she ended her day with a 24.70 run in the 200m to bring her overall tally to 3712.
Ellenwood was in contention after the first two events, having clocked 13.40 in the 100m hurdles and cleared 1.76m in the high jump. She dropped to seventh overall after 12.29m in the shot put and maintained that position after the 200m (24.29), ending the first day 204 points behind Ahouanwanou.
Mayr finished the first day one place ahead of Ellenwood, safe in the knowledge that she had some strong events to come on day two.
Huntington closed in on Ahouanwanou at the start of the second day, leaping 6.39m to the African champion&rsquo;s 6.07m. But a javelin PB of 48.02m kept Ahouanwanou in pole position going into the final event.
Ellenwood, who had achieved 6.20m in the long jump, was the top performer in the javelin, throwing a big PB of 48.57m to move into second place overall. She still trailed Ahouanwanou by 153 points, but also knew that she was a much better 800m runner than the long-time leader.
The 2018 NCAA champion went for it in the final event, winning in a PB of 2:11.45 to end with a lifetime best score of 6314. Ahouanwanou finished 14 seconds adrift and slipped to second place overall, but she was rewarded with a PB of 6274, an improvement on her own national record.
Mayr, as expected, excelled in the final two disciplines, moving from sixth to fifth and then to third, scoring 6254.
Vanessa Grimm came out on top in the battle of the Germans, finishing fourth overall with 6231, comfortably ahead of fifth-placed Anna Maiwald (6069).
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
&bull; <a href="https://www.leichtathletik.de/termine/top-events/mehrkampf-2021-ratingen/ratingen-2021-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>

Germany’s Kai Kazmirek and Canada’s Georgia Ellenwood emerged the winners at the Stadtwerke Mehrkampf-Meeting, thanks to strong second-day performances at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events meeting in Ratingen on Sunday (20).

Calendar
Date	Meeting	Venue	Country
28–29 JAN 2023	Meeting X-Athletics Combined Events	Stadium Jean-Pellez, Aubiére	FRA
04–05 FEB 2023	Indoor Combined Events Tallinn 2023	Lasnamäe Kergejõustikuhall, Tallinn	EST
29–30 APR 2023	GardaStars by 36th Multistars	Stadio Tre Stelle, Desenzano del Garda	ITA
20–21 MAY 2023	Portarathlon	Municipal Stadium, Naxos	GRE
27–28 MAY 2023	England Athletics Senior & U20 Comnined Event Championships	Manchester	GBR
27–28 MAY 2023	Hypomeeting	Mösle-Stadium, Götzis	AUT
03–04 JUN 2023	Défi’Athlon	Stade Philippides, Montpellier	FRA
10–11 JUN 2023	Sweden Combined Events Challenge	Ryavallen, Borås	SWE
17–18 JUN 2023	Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting	Stadionring, Ratingen	GER
17–18 JUN 2023	XII Meeting Internacional Arona Pruebas Combinadas Tenerife	Antonio Domínguez Stadium, Arona	ESP
22–23 JUL 2023	Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial	Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak Stadium, Bydgoszcz	POL
23–24 SEP 2023	Décastar	Stade Pierre Paul Bernard, Talence	FRA

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