Rio 2016: Thiam holds off Ennis-Hill to secure heptathlon gold

Nafissatou Thiam deposed Jessica Ennis-Hill as the Olympic heptathlon champion despite the Briton's superb 800 metre victory in the final event.
Belgium's Thiam had taken a slender advantage of five points from 2012 gold medallist Ennis-Hill after jumping a personal best 6.58 metres in the long jump in Saturday's morning session in Rio.
And the 21-year-old, who was 11th at last year's World Championships in Beijing, cemented her lead with another personal best in the javelin, recording a huge 53.13m to take a 142-point lead.
That meant Ennis-Hill needed a huge turnaround in the 800m and, although she stormed to victory in a season's best of two minutes and 9.07 seconds, Thiam's time of 2:16.54 was enough to maintain first place and secure her place atop the podium with 6810 points to her Ennis-Hill's 6775.