Kluft pessamistic

Kluft set a personal best of 7,032 points and broke the European record but her tally was still 259 points shy of the mark Joyner-Kersee set in 1988.

"I think it's a great record and I really pushed myself over these last two days and I'm not even close to it," the 24-year-old Swede said.

"For me it's not really any more a goal. Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a great athlete and I'm not sure I'm as good as she was so that's not a source of motivation for me at all."

Kluft's triumph at the Nagai Stadium extended her unbeaten run to 19 competitions over the last five and a half years but she still believes she can be bettered.

"No one is unbeatable," she added. "I think the girls will just have to keep it up and try to beat me. Every competition is another chance to beat me, I'm not unbeatable, no one is."

Mentally and physically fatigued after a tough weekend, Kluft again refused to be drawn on whether she would be in Beijing to defend her Olympic title next August.

"I never make plans for the next year until my season is over and I'm going to keep it that way," she added. "I just know that after my few weeks off, I'll go into training hungry again because I know I've got so much more to give."

"I'm going to finish the heptathlon when I feel I'm ready for it and I don't know when that is. It could happen any day ...

"It's like 'now I'm feeling, I'm finished, I want to do the long jump or I want to do another event, I want to move my focus to just one event.' When I feel I'm ready for that I'm going to take that decision. But right now I'm not ready for it."