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heptathlon

Multi-event athletics discipline for women consisting of seven events over two days: 100-metre hurdles, high jump, shot-put, 200 metres (day one); long jump, javelin, 800 metres (day two). Points are awarded for performances in each event in the same way as the decathlon. It replaced the pentathlon (five events) in international competition in 1981.



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Rattler has qualified for the April 29 State Prelims in the seven-event heptathalon - the long jump, high jump, shot put, javelin, 100 meter hurdles, 800 meters and 200 meters - and has the fourth-best mark among Southern Californians.
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Shelia Burrell, who started her heptathalon career in the early 1990s at UCLA, ran with a stress fracture in her right foot, moved from 12th to fourth overall, just missing the bronze medal.
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