2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon The women's heptathlon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 23 August. Hanna Kasyanova (née Melnychenko) of Ukraine entered the competition as defending champion, although the favourite for the competition was the silver medalist of 2013 World Championships Brianne Theisen-Eaton who is the world leader by a margin of more than 250 points. Other potential winners and medalists were 2009 World and 2012 Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, returning from giving birth to her first child, 2015 European pentathlon champion and 2014 world
IAAF World Indoor Championships in the women's 800 m from 1993 to 2008. Natalya Nazarova has won seven gold and one silver medal from 1999 to 2008 in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay. Cuban Iván Pedroso won five straight golds in the men's long jump from 1993–2001. Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria won five gold medals in the women's high jump. Key to tables: <br> "Medal table includes 1985–2018 Championships." was the name, under which Russian athletes competed in the 2018 Championships. Their medals were not included in the official medal table. In the "IAAF placing table" the total score is