American multis star Anna Hall announced on her social media that she will not compete at the upcoming World Indoor Championships in Glasgow after undergoing knee surgery.

Hall, the World Championships silver medalist in the heptathlon this past summer, posted on X, formerly Twitter, that in early January she underwent a “small” procedure at the Stedman Clinic in Vail CO. that went according to plan, adding that she is “already well on the mend, and should be back on the track in a bit.”

“It breaks my heart to be passing on the indoor world championships next month, but this was something we needed to do now in order to focus on the Olympics.”

❤️‍🩹 pic.twitter.com/3fu48ip1qx

— Anna Hall (@annaahalll) January 29, 2024

Hall finished 2023 as the third-ranked pentathlete in the world with her score of 5004 at the U.S. Indoor Championships in Albuquerque establishing a new American record. 

She went on outdoors to win the prestigious Hypo Meeting in Gotzis with a world-leading heptathlon score of 6988. She won the U.S. Outdoor Championships with a score of 6677 and finished second to Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain at World Outdoors in Budapest, scoring 6720.

Johnson-Thompson, Hall, and Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands were among the early medal favorites for the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow from March 1-3 as well as this spring’s edition of the Hypo Meeting on May 18-19, two meets that will likely set the expectation tables heading into the Paris Olympic this summer.