Sweden's Carolina Kluft cemented her position as the best all-round female athlete of her generation when she clinched an unprecedented third successive world heptathlon title with a personal best tally of 7,032 points on Sunday. Kluft's time of2:12.56 in the 800 meters also gave her the European record, beating Russian Larisa Nikitina's 7,007 from 1989. She became the only woman apart from world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee to pass 7,000 points more than once.
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