Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon lane having done so, and Schwarzkopf was re-instated. Ennis's final score was 6955, a British and Commonwealth record. In 2013, Chernova was suspended doping violations back to 2009. Subsequently, the IAAF filed a case with the Court of Arbitration questioning the selective suspension periods of her and five other Russian athletes that made them eligible between 2011 and 2013. The heptathlon consists of seven track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the seven components. The seven event scores are summed to give a total for the heptathlon. , the
African Combined Events Championships this championships are considered separate from the combined events that feature on the programme at the biennial African Championships in Athletics. Key: African Combined Events Championships The African Combined Events Championships () is an international athletics competition between African athletes in the disciplines of men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. It became part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge circuit in 2011. The two-day event was established in 1999, when it was held in the Algerian capital of Algiers. A second edition was scheduled for 2003, to be held in Réduit, Mauritius, but this plan was abandoned. The second edition of