Three-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam and the past two Olympic decathlon champions, Markus Rooth and Damian Warner, headline the fields for the 50th anniversary edition of D\u00e9castar \u2013 this season\u2019s final World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting \u2013 in Talence on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Belgium\u2019s Thiam contests her first full heptathlon of the year after testing herself in select events during the Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in Ratingen in June, clearing 1.84m in the high jump and throwing 14.64m in the shot put. She then contested the high jump during the Wanda Diamond League Final on home soil in Brussels, again clearing 1.84m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 32-year-old, a two-time world champion in 2017 and 2022, competed at last year\u2019s World Championships in Tokyo but withdrew after five events. Her most recent completed heptathlon came at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where she won with 6880 \u2013 the third-highest score of her career behind her national record of 7013 set in G\u00f6tzis in 2017 and 6947 from the 2022 World Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her competition includes her compatriot Noor Vidts, the two-time world indoor pentathlon champion who claimed Olympic bronze in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They will be joined in Talence by three other athletes who have surpassed 6300 points \u2013 Germany\u2019s Vanessa Grimm, Lithuania\u2019s Beatri\u010d\u0117 Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and USA’s Erin Marsh. Grimm set a PB of 6381 to finish sixth at the Hypomeeting in G\u00f6tzis in May, while Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (6323) and Marsh (6305) are also in the form of their lives this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great Britain\u2019s Niamh Emerson continues her comeback after injury. The 27-year-old marked her return to major championship competition by finishing sixth at the Commonwealth Games. In Talence she will line up alongside her compatriot Ellen Barber, who was fourth at the Commonwealth Games, as well as Sweden\u2019s Lovisa Karlsson and Germany\u2019s Anna-Elisabeth Ehlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D\u00e9castar also features the return of Rooth, who contests his first decathlon since his win at the Paris Olympics. The 24-year-old scored 8796 to clinch his Olympic crown but has competed sparingly since due to injury. He competes in Talence for the second time, following his sixth place in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
D\u00e9castar offers Warner his third decathlon of the season. The Canadian record-holder, who has four World Championships medals to go with his Olympic title from 2021, scored 8497 to finish fourth in G\u00f6tzis before he secured silver at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They will face some strong competition in Talence as the two Olympic champions go up against Warner’s compatriot Pierce LePage and Rooth’s compatriot Sander Skotheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skotheim, the 2025 world indoor heptathlon champion, has a season\u2019s best of 8433 set when finishing third at the European Championships, while 2023 world champion LePage will want to build on the 8117 he scored in G\u00f6tzis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dutch athlete Jeff Tesselaar set a PB of 8378 to finish one place behind Skotheim at the European Championships, while Estonia\u2019s Karel Tilga was fifth and France\u2019s Makenson Gletty was sixth in Birmingham, and they all clash again. Gletty has a season\u2019s best of 8458, set when finishing second in Ratingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The field also features US athletes Harrison Williams, Hakim McMorris and Devon Williams, as well as Olympic fourth-place finisher Sven Roosen of the Netherlands who finished fifth \u2013 between Warner and Tilga \u2013 in G\u00f6tzis in May on 8428.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women\u2019s heptathlon<\/strong> Men\u2019s decathlon<\/strong> Three-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam and the past two Olympic decathlon champions, Markus Rooth and Damian Warner,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[50,376,377],"class_list":["post-15822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-athletics","tag-decathlon","tag-heptathlon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) 7013
Noor Vidts (BEL) 6707
Vanessa Grimm (GER) 6381
Beatri\u010d\u0117 Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (LTU) 6323
Erin Marsh (USA) 6305
Niamh Emerson (GBR) 6253
Lovisa Karlsson (SWE) 6218
Anna-Elisabeth Ehlers (GER) 6216
L\u00e9onie Cambours (FRA) 6192
Marie Dehning (GER) 6180
Ellen Barber (GBR) 6169
C\u00e9lia Perron (FRA) 6138
Mareike R\u00f6sing (GER) 6105<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Damian Warner (CAN) 9018
Pierce LePage (CAN) 8909
Sander Skotheim (NOR) 8909
Markus Rooth (NOR) 8796
Karel Tilga (EST) 8681
Harrison Williams (USA) 8630
Sven Roosen (NED) 8607
Makenson Gletty (FRA) 8606
Hakim McMorris (USA) 8420
Devon Williams (USA) 8402
Jeff Tesselaar (NED) 8378
Amadeus Gr\u00e4ber (GER) 8345
Dario Dester (ITA) 8318<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"