Heptathlon

Heptathlon

 

 

Heptathlon

 

Meaning of Heptathlon

Heptathlon a multi-event for women, consisting of seven events held on two consecutive days and contested in the following order - first day: 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, second day: long jump, javelin, 800m (athletics) (chambers. Sports factf.,2005, 53P.) Heptathlon an athletics competition, usually for women, in which the contestants compete in seven different events and are awarded points for each to find the best all-round athlete. The events are the javelin, hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot put, sprint and 800-metre race. (Dict. Of sp. And ex. Sc. 2006, 104P.) Heptathlon combined track and field event for women, which replaced the pentathlon for women practiced until then. The heptathlon is held on two consecutive days: day 1: 100-m hurdles, high jump, shot-put, 200-m run, day 2: long jump, javelin, 800-m run. The individual events are scored according to the international points table based on a thousand points per event (» decathlon). (H.Haag &g. Haag, dictionary, 2003, 240p.)

 

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1.   Chambers  Sports  Factfinder.  Chambers  Harrap  Publishers  Ltd  2005.  [ISBN  0550  101616] (Chambers. Sports Factf.,2005)
2.   Dictionary  of  Leisure,  Travel  and  Tourism.  Third  edition.  A&C  Black  Publishers  Ltd,  2008. [ISBN 9780713685459] (Dict. of Leis., Trav. and Tour., 2008)
3.   Dictionary. Sport, Physical Education, Sport Science. Editors Herbert Haag&Gerald Haag. Kiel, Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaften, 2003.  [ISBN 3-7780-3419-7]  ((H.Haag &G. Haag, Dictionary, 2003)
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