The World Athletics Combined Events Tour determines a yearly women's heptathlon champion.

In recent years some women's decathlon competitions have been conducted, consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and World Athletics has begun keeping records for it, but the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women.

Nafissatou Thiam, representing Belgium, is the 2024 Olympic Gold Medallist, after successfully defending her previous 2016 and 2020 titles.

The heptathlon scoring system was devised by Dr Karl Ulbrich, a Viennese mathematician.

The formulae are constructed so that, for each event, a designated benchmark performance (for example, approximately 1.82 m for the high jump) scores 1000 points.

The following table shows the minimum benchmark levels required to earn 1000 points in each event.

Unratified by World Athletics ✕ = Inadequate doping control (In completed heptathlons of more than 5200 points) Other multiple event contests include: