Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–21 August.
Competition format
The heptathlon consists of seven track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the seven components. The seven event scores are summed to give a total for the heptathlon.Schedule
All times are Greece Standard Time| Date | Time | Round |
| Friday, 20 August 2004 | 09:30 10:40 19:30 20:40 | 100 metres hurdles High jump Shot put 200 metres |
| Saturday, 21 August 2004 | 10:00 18:30 21:40 | Long jump Javelin throw 800 metres |
Records
, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.No new records were set during the competition.
Overall results
The final results of the event are in the following table.;Key:
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Overall points | 100 m H | HJ | SP | 200 m | LJ | JT | 800 m |
| Carolina Klüft | 6952 | |||||||||
| Austra Skujytė | 6435 | |||||||||
| Kelly Sotherton | 6424 | |||||||||
| Shelia Burrell | 6296 | |||||||||
| Yelena Prokhorova | 6289 | |||||||||
| Sonja Kesselschläger | 6287 | |||||||||
| Marie Collonvillé | 6279 | |||||||||
| Nataliya Dobrynska | 6255 | |||||||||
| Margaret Simpson | 6253 | |||||||||
| 10 | Svetlana Sokolova | 6210 | ||||||||
| 11 | Shobha Javur | 6172 | ||||||||
| 12 | Claudia Tonn | 6155 | ||||||||
| 13 | Naide Gomes | 6151 | ||||||||
| 14 | Michelle Perry | 6124 | ||||||||
| 15 | Argyro Strataki | 6117 | ||||||||
| 16 | Karin Ruckstuhl | 6108 | ||||||||
| 17 | Karin Ertl | 6095 | ||||||||
| 18 | Kylie Wheeler | 6090 | ||||||||
| 19 | Janice Josephs | 6074 | ||||||||
| 20 | Tiffany Lott-Hogan | 6066 | ||||||||
| 21 | Magdalena Szczepańska | 6012 | ||||||||
| 22 | Irina Naumenko | 6000 | ||||||||
| 23 | Yuliya Akulenko | 5996 | ||||||||
| 24 | Soma Biswas | 5965 | ||||||||
| 25 | Marsha Mark-Baird | 5962 | ||||||||
| 26 | Michaela Hejnová | 5716 | ||||||||
| 27 | Shen Shengfei | 4949 | ||||||||
| 28 | Yuki Nakata | 4871 | ||||||||
| Svetlana Kazanina | ||||||||||
| Denise Lewis | ||||||||||
| Tiia Hautala | ||||||||||
| Anzhela Atroshchenko | ||||||||||
| Natallia Sazanovich | ||||||||||
| Tatyana Gordeyeva |