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| Born | Anna Marcia Jean Hall (2001-03-23)March 23, 2001 (age 24) Denver, Colorado, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Heptathlon,Pentathlon,400 m,400 m hurdles,800 m,High Jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Florida Gators (2021–2022) Georgia Bulldogs (2019–2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Mike Holloway, Mellanee Welty, Nic Peterson, Eric Werskey, Matt Delancey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 1st (Heptathlon, 2023)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Hall (born March 23, 2001)[3] is an Americanathlete specializing in thecombined events. She is the reigningWorld Champion inheptathlon, having won the title at the2025 World Championships.
She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the2023 World Championships and the bronze medal at the2022 World Championships. Hall is theNorth American indoor record holder for thepentathlon.
Her heptathlon and pentathlon best scores place her fifth and fourth on the respective world all-time lists. She is the only woman to break 6700 points in the heptathlon and run under 55 seconds in the400 meters hurdles.[4] Hall also has a 50.82 s personal best in the400 meters. She is a three-time U.S. national champion and won twoNCAA Division I titles representing theUniversity of Florida.
Anna Hall is the daughter of Ronette and David Hall. She has three sisters: older sisters Kathryn and Julia and younger sister Lauryn.
Anna Hall grew up in an athletic household inHighlands Ranch, Colorado nearDenver. Her father David was a three-sportletterman at theUniversity of Michigan: aquarterback on the football team, a basketball player, and a competitor in thedecathlon. Her older sisters Kathryn and Julia played tennis and ran track at Michigan respectively. Anna started track at seven by doing thehigh jump and then also running the1500 meters.
Growing up in the mountains, sheskied, playedsoccer,volleyball,lacrosse andfield hockey, and swam for her neighborhood pool team in the summer.[1][5][6][7]
Hall started high school atArapahoe but switched toValor Christian for her second year.[7] She was a three-timeNew Balance Nationalspentathlon champion between 2017 and 2019 and the 2018 New Balance Nationalshigh jump champion.[1] In 2018, she set her first pentathlon (junior class) andheptathlon national high school records. The 17-year-old made her international debut at theWorld Under-20 Championships inTampere, Finland that year, finishing ninth in the heptathlon against athletes up to two years her senior. The following year, she improved both her national high school records with 4302 and 5847 points at theUSATF Indoor Championships (third place in senior division aged still 17) andPan American U20 Championships (first place) respectively.[1] She was also back-to-back heptathlonU20 national champion.[3]
University of Georgia (2019-2021): All-American Honors and Injury
In 2019–2021, Hall represented theGeorgia Bulldogs. She earned high jump and pentathlonAll-America honors for the Indoor season that was cut short to theCOVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, after finishing second in the NCAA indoor pentathlon and third in the high jump, she earned two First TeamAll-America honors[8] to help the Bulldogs earn theirNCAA Outdoor third-place team finish. She was named First-Team All-SEC for the Indoor season and Second-Team All-SEC for the Outdoor season.[9][10] She skipped the heptathlon competition to focus on the delayed2020 US Olympic trials.[1]
During her100 meters hurdles heat at the Olympic trials in June 2021, she hit the eighth barrier and crashed hard on the track, breaking thenavicular bone in her left foot. She later posted, "my heart is broken that I didn’t get to put up the score I know I was ready for and my Olympic dreams (for this year) were shattered before my eyes".[11] Hall had a surgery to insert a screw into the injured foot and wasn't cleared to walk until October. In the meantime, after a Bulldogs coaching change, she transferred from theUniversity of Georgia to theUniversity of Florida for a better fit both athletically and academically.[11][4]
University of Florida (2021-2022): NCAA Indoor & Outdoor Individual Titles
In the fall of 2021, Hall transferred to Florida to compete underMike Holloway.[12] After overcoming the broken foot,[13] she turned in a personal best of 4618 points in her second pentathlon competition in February, winning theSEC indoor title.[4] She then claimed the pentathlon and heptathlon titles at theindoor andoutdoorNCAA Division I Championships respectively. Indoors, Hall helped the Gators win their firstwomen's NCAA Indoor team title in 30 years. Outdoors, she was also the400 m hurdles silver medalist to help the Gator women earn their first everNCAA Outdoor team title (running the800 meters 20 minutes after her hurdles final).[4][14][15] She earned Second Team All-SEC honors for her silver medal in the 400 m hurdles[16] and First Team All-SEC for her gold medal finish in the pentahalon at the SEC Indoor Championships.[17]
For the her performance at Florida, Hall was namedUSTFCCCA Women's Outdoor National Field Athlete of the Year in 2022.[18] She was received three First-TeamAll-America honors by theUSTFCCCA for her performances in the pentathlon,400 m hurdles, and the heptathlon.[19] Hall was also named a finalist forThe Bowerman, the track and field award given to the best student-athlete.[20] Hall, alongside her Florida teammateJasmine Moore, were named finalists for theHonda Sports Award for Track & Field.[21]
On the academic side, Hall was named on the 2022SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll, requiring her to have 3.0+GPA while competing on the Indoor and Outdoor teams.[22] She also named a 2022 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete, with a GPA higher than 3.25 and participated in the Championship.
She shattered her heptathlon personal best with a score of 6412 points at theTexas Relays, breaking the collegiate record of 6390 set by the world record-holderJackie Joyner-Kersee in 1983 and setting an American record in the heptathlon 800 meters with a time of 2:04.61.[11] Hall improved both marks to take the title at theUSATF Combined Event Championships, with a total of 6458 points and the third-fastest heptathlon 800 m time in world history (2:03.11).[4]
In July 2022, the 21-year-old bettered her heptathlon personal best by almost 300 points with a score of 6755 to claim the bronze medal at the homeWorld Athletics Championships inEugene, Oregon. After setting lifetime bests in three events, she became the third-best female heptathlete in American history and established a new NCAA record. It was the best US female heptathlon since 1993 and the first world medal in the discipline for the country for 20 years – sinceShelia Burrell also earned bronze in2001.[23][24]
In August 2022, Hall turned professional, signing a contract withAdidas.[25]
2023: North American pentathlon indoor record
On February 16, 2023, she obliteratedBrianne Theisen-Eaton's North American pentathlon record with a total of 5004 points at theUSATF Indoor Championships inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. Becoming the third female in history to achieve 5000 points or more and moving up to second place on theworld all-time list, Hall just missed the world record of 5013 pts, set byNataliya Dobrynska in 2012.[26][27] At the same meet, she later claimed the400 meters title, running a new personal best time of 51.03 seconds.[28]
On May 28, the 22-year-old improved her hepthatlonPB by 233 points by amassing a world-leading 6988 for a win at the prestigiousHypo-Meeting inGötzis, Austria to move to second / fifth on theNACAC area /world all-time list respectively. She set personal bests in five events, including a100 m hurdles meet record of 12.75 s. Hall also turned in the second-best ever, behind only Jackie Joyner-Kersee, day-one score of 4172.[29] She was selected for the2023 World Athletics Championships inBudapest in August 2023.[30]
2024
Hall underwent knee surgery in January 2024. After breaking her foot mid-competition at the 2021 Olympic trials, Hall secured a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning the heptathlon at theUS Olympic trials in June.[31] She competed in the heptathlon at the2024 Summer Olympics inParis, finishing in fifth place overall.[32][33]
2025: World Champion
She was runner-up toSydney McLaughlin over 400 metres flat at the2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami in May 2025.[34] Hall scored a personal best 7032 points to win the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting at Gotzis, Austria on 1 June 2025. This broke the meet record and tied withCarolina Kluft as second on the all-time list behind world record holderJackie Joyner-Kersee. Hall set new personal bests in the high jump, shot put, javelin and 800 meters, with her 800 m time of 2:01.23, a new heptathlon world record for the distance.[35]
She won the heptathlon at the2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the first to win four consecutive titles.[36]
At the2025 World Athletics Championships, she became the second American woman to win the event after her mentorJackie Joyner-Kersee won in 1992. She dominated with 6,888 points, the second place finisher 174 points behind her,Kate O'Connor ofIreland.[37] She had a personal best in the shot put and the 200 m, finishing in first place at the end of day one. She sealed her victory with a personal best in the javelin throw (48.13m) while also scoring in the top three in five of the seven events.[38] She also won the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.[39]
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| Slam | Race group | Event | Pl. | Time | Prize money |
| 2025 Miami Slam | Long hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | 54.43 | US$30,000 |
| 400 m | 2nd | 51.68 | |||
Wins and titles
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result |
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| 2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere | 9th | Heptathlon | 5655 pts |
| 2019 | Pan American U20 Championships | San José | 1st | Heptathlon | 5847 pts |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene | 3rd | Heptathlon | 6755 ptsPB |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest | 2nd | Heptathlon | 6720 pts |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris | 5th | Heptathlon | 6615 |
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo | 1st | Heptathlon | 6888 ptsPB |
Outdoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Score | Ref. |
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| Heptathlon | — | Götzis | May 31–June 1, 2025 | 7,032 points | — |
| 100 m hurdles | 12.75(+0.7 m/s) | Götzis | May 27, 2023 | 1,162 points | |
| High jump | 1.95 m (6 ft4+3⁄4 in) | Götzis | June 1, 2025 | 1,171 points | |
| Shot put | 15.80 m (51 ft 10 in) | Tokyo | September 19, 2025 | 915 points | |
| 200 meters | 22.88(+0.1 m/s) | Götzis | May 27, 2023 | 1,091 points | |
| Long jump | 6.61(+1.5 m/s) | Gainesville | April 14, 2023 | 1,043 points | |
| Javelin throw | 48.13 m (157 ft10+3⁄4 in) | Tokyo | September 20, 2025 | 824 points | [44] |
| 800 meters | 2:01.23 | Götzis | June 1, 2025 | 1,097 points | [45][a] |
| Virtual Best Performance | 7,303 points | — | |||
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points | Ref. |
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| HeptathlonNCAA | 6,755 points | Eugene | July 18, 2022 | 6,755 points | CR (PS) |
| 400 meters | 50.82 | Paris | June 9, 2023 | — | |
| 400 m hurdles | 54.42 | Florence | June 2, 2023 | — |
Indoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Score |
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| Pentathlon | — | Albuquerque | February 16, 2023 | 5,004 points |
| 60 m hurdles | 8.04 | Albuquerque | February 16, 2023 | 1,120 points |
| High jump | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | Albuquerque | February 16, 2023 | 1,119 points |
| Shot put | 13.80 m (45 ft3+1⁄4 in) | Albuquerque | February 16, 2023 | 781 points |
| Long jump | 6.34 m (20 ft9+1⁄2 in) | Albuquerque | February 16, 2023 | 956 points |
| 800 meters | 2:05.33 | College Station | February 25, 2022 | 1,034 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 5,010 points | |||
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
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| 400 meters | 51.03 | Albuquerque | February 18, 2023 | — |
Hall graduated fromUniversity of Florida withbachelor of arts degree inbusiness administration in December 2023.[46]
Hall has been in a relationship with NFL playerDarius Slayton (New York Giants) since November 2024, and they were engaged on November 15th, 2025.[47]
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