Anna Hall, after world title in heptathlon, still has childhood goals to chase
Anna Hall, who is about to get married, competes at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships, live on Peacock.
In 2025, Anna Hall came back from Paris Olympic heartbreak with, as she journaled , "my best version. " That version of Hall: the joint-second-best heptathlete in history by total score and the second American to win a world title in the event after her idol, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. "I think I dreamed it, but I definitely didn't believe it because I had things like this written down from a very young age," Hall told NBC Sports' Trey Hardee.
"I had world champion. I had Olympic champion. I had goals that I'm still chasing written down.
" Hall must wait until 2028 to grab that Olympic gold medal — after placing fifth in Paris coming off injury. But on Sunday, she can claim another global title in her World Indoor Track and Field Championships debut in the pentathlon. How to watch 2026 World Indoor Track and Field Championships The 2026 World Indoor Track and Field Championships air live on Peacock and NBCSN from Torun, Poland.
Nick Zaccardi , She can also become the second American to claim that crown after DeDee Nathan in 1999. The five-event competition made its indoor worlds debut in 1993 in the latter part of the career of Joyner-Kersee, who never contested it. Amid worlds prep, Hall also planned for her April wedding with New York Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton.