Sarah Lagger started her heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a time of 14.21 seconds over 100 m hurdles. This resulted in 21st place after the first discipline with 949 points. The Carinthian remained three hundredths of a second above her season best, but had the most headwind in her run (-1.1). Because of a heavy thunderstorm and heavy rain, the start of the World Cup on Saturday in the stadium was delayed by an hour.
The best was the American Taliyah Brooks (12.78/1.158) ahead of her compatriot, the favorite and Götzis winner Anna Hall (12.97/1.129). Compared to the heptathlon in Bydgoszcz in July, which Lagger won, she had run a faster hurdle sprint in Hungary and 14.28 in Poland. That gives hope for the further course of the World Cup.
