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Anna Hall wins heptathlon world title, creates club with Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Anna Hall wins heptathlon world title, creates club with Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The heptathlon is a grueling, two-day, seven-event competition. For Anna Hall, it has been a painful yearslong journey to become world champion in the discipline that crowns the world’s best female athlete. Hall dominated to become the second American to win the heptathlon at the World Track and Field Championships after her mentor, the legendary Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She totaled 6,888 …

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