Olympic Heptathlon Odds: British star Johnson-Thompson among favourites for gold

British athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be going for gold in the Heptathlon at the Olympics in Paris.

The Heptathlon should be a keenly-contested event as Johnson-Thompson faces stiff competition from favourite Nafissatou Thiam, while the likes of Anna Hall and Anouk Vetter are other contenders for medals.

Olympics Heptathlon Events

The Heptathlon is made up of seven different events, with competitors battling it out to earn points in each discipline.

• 100m Hurdles
• High Jump
• Shot Put
• 200m
• Long Jump
• Javelin
• 800m

Olympics Heptathlon odds

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Nafissatou Thiam

Unsurprisingly, Nafissatou Thiam is the favourite in the market to win gold in the Heptathlon.

The Belgian athlete is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, winning the heptathlon event in 2016 in Rio before doubling up at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and will be hoping to defend her crown again this summer in Paris.

Thiam is the only Belgian athlete, male or female, to successfully defend an Olympic title and only the second woman after Jackie Joyner-Kersee to win back-to-back Olympic titles in the Heptathlon.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Johnson-Thompson is expected to be competing for a medal in the event in Paris as she looks to make up for the disappointment of injury wrecking her chances of glory four years ago in Tokyo.

The Liverpool-born athlete is a two-time world champion in Heptathlon, while she also has two Commonwealth Heptathlon golds to her name, triumphing in 2018 and 2022.

This year, she is looking for her first Olympic gold as she looks for more medals to go with her two World Championship golds, won in 2019 in Doha and last year in Budapest.

She made her Olympic debut at home in London in 2012, eventually finishing 13th. She improved significantly to finish sixth in the 2016 Games in Rio before heartbreak four years ago.

Johnson-Thompson had been struggling with an Achilles injury in the build-up to Tokyo but managed to get into shape and had started well - she was in fifth place after the first three events - but then suffered a calf injury in the 200m, falling in the race, and she was subsequently ruled out.

Anna Hall

Silver medallist at the World Championships last year, American Anna Hall is another contender for gold this year and has a real chance of coming top of the podium in the Heptathlon.

The 23-year-old is the North American indoor record holder for the pentathlon and is expected to be a major contender in Paris as she is the only woman to break 6700 points in the heptathlon and has run under 55 seconds in the 400m hurdles.

Anouk Vetter

Veteran Dutch athlete Vetter, who is 31, has two bronze medals (2017 and 2023) and one silver at World Championship level (2022) in the Heptathlon.

Vetter has plenty of experience and pedigree and won gold in the Heptathlon at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam.

Auriana Lazraq-Khlass

French national Heptathlon champion Auriana Lazraq-Khlass will get plenty of support from the locals at the Stade de France but she is an outsider for a medal.

However, if she displays the form that saw her win silver in the European Championships in Rome earlier this year then she may have a chance of upsetting her rivals.

Jade O'Dowda

O'Dowda is preparing for her first Olympics after rising up the ranks in recent years. The 24-year-old, who is the younger sister of Cardiff City and Republic of Ireland footballer, Callum, broke into the world's top 40 for the Heptathlon in 2018.

O'Dowda then won bronze in the Heptathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 and will hoping to be among the contenders in Paris.

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