Editing Heptathlon (section)

===Women's world records compared with heptathlon bests===
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|+World records (WR) compared with heptathlon bests (HB)
! style="width:100px;"| Event
! style="width:35px;"| Type
! style="width:150px;"| Athlete
! Record
! style="width:45px;"| Score
! style="width:70px;"| Difference in points value
! Date
! Place
! Notes/{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
! rowspan=2| 100 m hurdles
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Tobi Amusan]] || 12.12 [[Second|s]] || 1261 || || || ||
|-
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Jessica Ennis-Hill|Jessica Ennis]] || 12.54 s {{wind|+1.3}} || 1195 || −66 || 3 August 2012 || [[London]] || <ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Heptathlon 100 Metres Hurdles Results|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mini/oly12/Results/ResultsByDate.aspx?racedate=08-03-2012/sex=W/discCode=100H/combCode=HEP/roundCode=u/results.html#detW_100H_HEP_u|work=[[IAAF]]|date=August 3, 2012|access-date=August 5, 2012}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan=2| High jump
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Yaroslava Mahuchikh]] || 2.10 [[Metre|m]] || 1373 || || || || 
|-
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Nafissatou Thiam]] || 2.02 m || 1264 || −109 || 22 June 2019 || [[Talence]] || <ref name="wcb">{{cite web |title=World Combined Best Performances |url=https://worldathletics.org/records/by-category/combined-best-performances |website=worldathletics.org |access-date=25 August 2023}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan=2| Shot put
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Natalya Lisovskaya]] || 22.63 m || 1378 || || || ||
|-
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Austra Skujytė]] || 17.31 m<ref group=note>In 1977, [[Eva Wilms]] threw 20.79m during a [[pentathlon]] event, which is sometimes referred to as the heptathlon best.</ref> || 1016 || −362 || 3 August 2012 || [[London]] ||<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Heptathlon Shot Put Results|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mini/oly12/Results/ResultsByDate.aspx?racedate=08-03-2012/sex=W/discCode=SP/combCode=HEP/roundCode=u/results.html#detW_SP_HEP_u|work=[[IAAF]]|date=August 3, 2012|access-date=August 6, 2012}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan=2| 200 m
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Florence Griffith Joyner]] || 21.34 s || 1251 || || || ||
|- valign="top"
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Jackie Joyner Kersee]] || 22.30 s {{wind|+0.0}} || 1150 || −101 || 15 July 1988 || [[Indianapolis]] || <ref name="wcb" />
|-
! rowspan=2| Long jump
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Galina Chistyakova]] || 7.52 m || 1351 || || || ||
|-
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Jackie Joyner Kersee]] || 7.27 m {{wind|+0.7}} || 1264 || −87 || 24 September 1988 || [[Seoul]] || <ref name="wcb" />
|-
! rowspan=4| Javelin<ref group=note>Women's [[Javelin throw|javelin]] was redesigned in 1999 and all records started afresh. Point allocation for Heptathlon remained the same, but the comparison is being made between the WR and Heptathlon best of the current model.</ref>
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Barbora Spotakova|Barbora Špotáková]] || 72.28 m || 1295 || || || || Current 1999 model
|-
| HB 
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Barbora Spotakova|Barbora Špotáková]] || 60.90 m || 1072 || −223 || 16 September 2012 || [[Talence]] || Current 1999 model<ref>{{cite news|title=Van Alphen and Yosypenko prevail in Talence – IAAF Combined Events Challenge|url=http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WCE12/News/NewsDetail.aspx?id=67801|publisher=[[IAAF]]|author=Hans van Kuijen|date=September 16, 2012|access-date=September 18, 2012}}</ref>
|-
| ''WR''
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[Petra Felke]]'' || ''80.00 m'' || ''1448'' || || || || ''Old model''
|-
| ''HB''
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[Tessa Sanderson]]'' || ''64.64 m'' || ''1145'' || ''−303'' || || || ''Old model''
|-
! rowspan=2| 800 m
| WR
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Jarmila Kratochvilova|Jarmila Kratochvílová]] || 1:53.28 [[Minute|min]]:s || 1224 || || || ||
|-
| HB
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Nadine Debois]] || 2:01.84 min:s || 1087 || −137 || 27 September 1987 || [[Talence]] || <ref name="wcb" />
|-
! rowspan=2| Total
! colspan=3| World record || 9133 || || || ||
|-
! colspan=3| Heptathlon bests || 8048 || −1085 || || ||
|}