Day 1 of the heptathlon ends with an outstanding run from Abi Pawlett, yet another PB, this time 23.06

Anna Hall leads overnight ahead of Sofie Dokter, Annik Kalin and Pawlett

Onto the long jump and Leo Neugebauer got the long jumps started with 7.91. Birthday boy Sander Skotheim landed an 8m jump with 8.06m, and Simon Ehammer took it out to 8.34m.

That put Ehammer into the lead, but this is a field loaded with 8700+ athletes.

Further down the field Sammy Ball posted a PB of 10.55 and Lewis Church kicked the whole thing off with a lifetime best of 11.00 in the first heat

In the decathlon the usual early leaders Damian Warner and Simon Ehammer are buried in the new suite of big scoring participants. Ayden Owens- Delerme won the battle of the fast men with 10.33, with Warner in 10.39. Kyle Garland posted a PB of 10.50.

Onto the HJ and Timara Chapman 🇺🇸 Sofie Dokter 🇳🇱 Maddie Wilson 🇳🇿 take us beyond 1.80m with 1.86, 1.86, and 1.83 respectively.

But Anna Hall shows she is returning to her pre-surgery best. Her hurdles might have been down on her best but nothing wrong with that HJ - 1.92m and then a new PB of 1.95

The heptathlon is the first of the two events to kick off, and US duo of Michelle Athlerley and Erin Marsh post the equal fastest time of 12.93, a PB for Marsh.

Abi Pawlett improves her new PB further to 12.94, and Anna Hall opens with 13.26 (shown below)

And would you just look at this - very popular among his competitors too 🤩 although making Simon look super tiny 😂

Here’s what Lewis Church had to say after being the latest 🇬🇧 to join the 8k club, and win the decathlon at Multistars

(Sorry about the shouting,it’s Italy)