Anna Hall - U.S. heptathlete on her Olympic dreams and growing in her faith
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Anna Hall is a heptathlete competing for the United States. She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2023 World Championships and the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships. Hall is the North American indoor record holder for the pentathlon.
In June 2024, she’ll compete at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials with the hopes to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Anna Hall about her Olympic dream, how she became a heptathlete, growing in her faith and staying connected to God.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Today on Sports Spectrum, I got a pretty cool conversation coming your way with Anna Hall, who is a United States heptathlet and she competes in the heptathlon, the pentathlon, the 400 meters, a 400 meter hurdles. |
| 0:15.3 | In college at the University of Florida, she's a three-time U.S. national champion and won two NCAA Division I titles. |
| 0:25.1 | Her heptathlon and pentathlon, those are tough words. |
| 0:29.2 | Her best scores placed her fifth and fourth on the respective world all-time list and the only woman to break 6700 points in the heptathlon and run under 55 seconds into 400 |
| 0:41.0 | meter hurdles. Anna Hall is preparing for the 2024 Summer Olympics and we hope to be cheering her on |
| 0:48.0 | as a representative of the United States and she's coming up in just a moment here on sports |
| 0:53.9 | spectrum. She's going to be |
| 0:54.8 | talking to my colleague today, John Ackerman, our managing editor at Sports Spectrum. So John and |
| 1:00.6 | Anna are going to have a great conversation here today on the show. First, I want to remind you |
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