By Nick Mulvenney

TOKYO (Reuters) -Anna Hall won the heptathlon 800 metres in two minutes 06.08 seconds at the world championships on Saturday to secure her first global gold medal and bring the world title back to the United States for the first time since 1993.

Bronze medallist in Eugene in 2022 and second in Budapest in 2023, Hall lost a large part of her 2024 season after knee surgery but finally reached the top step of a major podium with a dominant two-day performance.

The 24-year-old scored 6,888 points to give her country a first world champion heptathlete since Jackie Joyner-Kersee won her second title in Stuttgart.

“This gold means so much,” she said. “Jackie and I have talked about the worlds and I am so glad to finally get my gold.

“I struggled with injuries in 2024 and my

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