Ennis claims pentathlon crown
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March 14, 2010, Sunday
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BRITISH world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis posted the fourth-best pentathlon score of all-time when she won the event with 4,937 points at the world indoor championships in Doha, Qatar, yesterday.
Only world record holder Irina Belova of Russia and Sweden's Carolina Kluft have posted better scores than the 24-year-old Ennis.
She topped Kluft's championship record by four points.
Ennis had victories in the 60-meter hurdles and high jump, a season's best in the shot put and personal bests in the long jump and the concluding 800 meters.
Olympic gold medalist Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine was second with 4,851 points and Russia's Tatyana Chernova third at 4,762.
Ethiopian Meseret Defar claimed her fourth successive women's 3,000-meter title, sprinting home in 8:51.17 to edge Kenyan 5,000-meter world champion Vivian Cheruiyot.
The United States swept the top two places in the men's heptathlon and won the shot put while Debbie Dunn added gold in the 400.
Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay scored 6,204 points to edge world champion Trey Hardee, who had 6,184. Russia's Aleksey Drozdov was third with 6,141.
Holder Christian Cantwell took his third indoor world shot put title with a last-throw toss of 21.83 meters to overtake Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus. Mikhnevich threw 21.68.
Dunn added to the US party mood when she took charge in the 400 early on and never let off to finish in 51.04. Jamaica's Novlene Williams-Mills stumbled off the track early on in a slight clash with Tatyana Firova but the Russian went on to claim silver a full 1.07 seconds behind.
Only world record holder Irina Belova of Russia and Sweden's Carolina Kluft have posted better scores than the 24-year-old Ennis.
She topped Kluft's championship record by four points.
Ennis had victories in the 60-meter hurdles and high jump, a season's best in the shot put and personal bests in the long jump and the concluding 800 meters.
Olympic gold medalist Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine was second with 4,851 points and Russia's Tatyana Chernova third at 4,762.
Ethiopian Meseret Defar claimed her fourth successive women's 3,000-meter title, sprinting home in 8:51.17 to edge Kenyan 5,000-meter world champion Vivian Cheruiyot.
The United States swept the top two places in the men's heptathlon and won the shot put while Debbie Dunn added gold in the 400.
Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay scored 6,204 points to edge world champion Trey Hardee, who had 6,184. Russia's Aleksey Drozdov was third with 6,141.
Holder Christian Cantwell took his third indoor world shot put title with a last-throw toss of 21.83 meters to overtake Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus. Mikhnevich threw 21.68.
Dunn added to the US party mood when she took charge in the 400 early on and never let off to finish in 51.04. Jamaica's Novlene Williams-Mills stumbled off the track early on in a slight clash with Tatyana Firova but the Russian went on to claim silver a full 1.07 seconds behind.
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