Tia Hellebaut won the world championship pentathlon indoor last Friday in Valencia, Spain. Pentathlon consists of five parts. Hellebaut won the first four, and became sixth in the last one, the 800 metres. This, however, doesn’t matter. She had a huge lead by winning four out of five. The silver medal went to the British Kelly Sotherton, the Russian Anna Bogdanona won the bronze medal. Hellebaut is very happy with her achievement. “The first world champion in Belgium, it’s going to take a while before I fully realize it”, she smiled widely. She also said that an entire day of athletics is very demanding. “Fun, yet fatiguing”, she commented. Kelly Sotherton admits Hellebaut deserved the gold medal. “The best contestant won. I secretly hoped she would stumble a bit more at the end, but she totally deserved to win after setting the score in high jump.”
Tia now both is double European champion high jump and world champion pentathlon indoor. This summer she is going to compete both in the Summer League and in the world championship heptatlon indoor. There, she will be testing her contition with an eye on the Olympics. Concerning the Olympic Games, her trainer and partner Wim Van De Ven says she is only going to take part in high jump. This is because she isn’t good at spear throwing, so it wouldn’t be wise to let her participate in the heptatlon.
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