LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Jessica Ennis closed out the first day of the Olympic heptathlon by running the 200 meters in a personal-record 22.83 seconds to take a 184-point lead with three events left.
Ennis, who opened the Olympic track meet Friday morning by running the 100-meter hurdles in a heptathlon record of 12.54 seconds, returned for the night session and picked up where she left off.
Competing in front of another jammed crowd, many of them waving British flags, Ennis recorded a shot put of 46 feet, 1014 inches (14.28 meters), then closed the night with another fast time on the track.
She finished with 4,158 points, while Austra Skujyte of Lithuania had 3,974 and Jessica Zelinka of Canada had 3,903.
