Athletics: Kelly's on a steep curve.Byline: DAVID MARTIN KELLY SOTHERTON insists the European Indoor Championships in Madrid will be an important learning curve. The heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. bronze medallist again faces Olympic champion Carolina Kluft. The pair clash in the pentathlon pentathlon (pĕntăth`lən), composite athletic event. In ancient Greece it comprised leaping, foot racing, wrestling, discus throwing, and casting the javelin. where the Swede swede: see turnip. will start favourite for another major victory after finishing third at the last championships as an emerging 19-year-old. But Sotherton is determined to continue her own rapid improvement. She said: 'I've done them (pentathlons) but not to this standard. 'This is my first indoor championship and only my second ever major championship. 'People forget that and think I'm experienced. But I'm not, I'm still learning. 'I've had a couple of competitions on the way but I haven't had the best of preparations because I've been injured. 'Whatever I've done or she has done isn't really going to matter. But obviously the competition does come out much more in a multi-event |
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