2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon

With the retirement of defending champion Ashton Eaton, the multi event world opened up. 2016 Olympic silver medalist Kévin Mayer assumed the top spot winning the 2017 World Championships. His pursuers included Olympic bronze medalist Damian Warner and world championship bronze medalist Kai Kazmirek.

In the 60 metres, Warner ran the top time of 6.74, his personal best, but Mayer was only .11 behind, also running his personal best, putting Warner 41 points ahead. In the long jump, Kazmirek boomed a 7.68 m (25 ft 2 ¹⁄₄ in) personal best to offset one of the poorer 60 metre times to move into a tight group fighting for third place. Oleksiy Kasyanov actually held an 8 point advantage in third, with Dominik Distelberger joining the other two within 13 points of each other. At the top of the leader board, Mayer had another personal best of 7.55m in the long jump to pull within two points of Warner. In the shot put, Mayer overpowered Warner, his 15.67 m (51 ft 4 ³⁄₄ in) more than 2 feet further than Warner, who threw his personal best 14.90m. Mayer had a 45 point lead. Kazmirek's personal best 14.55m shot put put him 16 points up for third place. As the last event of the first day, Mayer and Warner topped out at 2.02m, with Kazmirek gaining a little ground with a 2.05m. At that height, Maicel Uibo had barely warmed up. Uibo kept clearing heights all the way up to 2.17 m (7 ft 1 ¹⁄₄ in), which also moved him into a solid third place, exactly 100 points behind Mayer.

Warner began the second day with a 7.67 60 metres hurdles, .16 better than Mayer and enough to pull him back to 4 points behind. Both Kazmirek and Uibo ran personal bests, but Kazmirek was .24 better to give him a 45 point advantage. Kasyanov pushed over a hurdle to take himself out of the race. In the pole vault, Warner got over a personal best 4.90m to only lose 10 cm and another 30 points to Mayer. Again on the vertical jump, Uibo excelled clearing a personal best of 5.30 m (17 ft 4 ¹⁄₂ in), which was matched by Eelco Sintnicolaas who was still in sixth place, behind Zachery Ziemek. But Kazmirek had also jumped a personal best 5.20m, so Uibo was still 13 points behind. In order to win the championship, Warner needed to beat Mayer by about 3 seconds in the 1000 meters, and Uibo needed to beat Kazmirek by about 1.3 seconds. Both Warner 2:37.12 and Uibo 2:38.51 ran personal bests in first and second place. Mayer was able to stay about 2 and a half seconds behind Warner to take the championship by a scant 5 points. Uibo beat Kazmirek by over 3 and a half seconds to take the bronze. Warner was able to beat Mike Smith's 25 year old Canadian national record.

After all events.[10]

Key

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Overall points	60 m	LJ	SP	HJ	60 m H	PV	1000 m
	Kevin Mayer	France	6348 WL	936 6.85	947 7.55	831 15.67	822 2.02	1025 7.83	910 5.00	877 2:39.64
	Damian Warner	Canada	6343 NIR	977 6.74	908 7.39	784 14.90	822 2.02	1066 7.67	880 4.90	906 2:37.12
	Maicel Uibo	Estonia	6265 PB	813 7.20	913 7.41	747 14.30	963 2.17	935 8.19	1004 5.30	890 2:38.51
4	Kai Kazmirek	Germany	6238 PB	830 7.15	980 7.68	762 14.55	850 2.05	994 7.95	972 5.20	850 2:42.15
5	Eelco Sintnicolaas	Netherlands	5997 SB	897 6.96	850 7.15	734 14.09	714 1.90	989 7.97	1004 5.30	809 2:45.93
6	Zachery Ziemek	United States	5941	922 6.89	864 7.21	697 13.48	822 2.02	947 8.14	941 5.10	748 2:51.73
7	Ruben Gado	France	5927	886 6.99	876 7.26	704 13.61	767 1.96	867 8.47	941 5.10	886 2:38.86
8	Dominik Distelberger	Austria	5908	907 6.93	898 7.35	670 13.04	740 1.93	987 7.98	849 4.80	857 2:41.49
9	Jan Doležal	Czech Republic	5775	868 7.04	823 7.04	779 14.82	767 1.96	932 8.20	819 4.70	787 2:47.99
	Oleksiy Kasyanov	Ukraine	DNF	900 6.95	918 7.43	738 14.16	822 2.02	0 DQ	DNS	DNS
	Lindon Victor	Grenada	DNF	889 6.98	492 5.55	823 15.54	0 NM	DNS	DNS	DNS
	Kurt Felix	Grenada	DNF	809 7.21	797 6.93	752 14.39	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS