LONDON - Britain's Jessica Ennis stared at the scoreboard, waiting for her time to post, and then thrust her arms into the air.

Another personal best. Another crowd-pleasing performance.

Ennis closed out the first day of the Olympic heptathlon by running the 200 metres in a personal-record 22.83 seconds to take a 184-point lead with three events left.

Ennis, who opened the Olympic track meet Friday morning by running the 100-meter hurdles in a heptathlon record of 12.54 seconds, returned for the night session and picked up where she left off.

Competing in front of a capacity crowd at Olympic Stadium, many of them waving British flags, Ennis recorded a shot put of 14.28 metres (46 feet, 10 1/4 inches), then closed the night with another fast time on the track.

She finished with 4,158 points, while Lithuania's Austra Skujyte had 3,974 and Canada's Jessica Zelinka had 3,903.

"I'm absolutely elated with today, to have performed like that with two personal bests and to end it with a PB was a brilliant start to the (heptathlon)," Ennis said.

She had reason to be thrilled.

With nearly all 80,000 seats filled for the first taste of Olympic track and field, Ennis wowed the home crowd by finishing the 100-meter hurdles in the fastest time ever in the heptathlon's first event.

How fast? It matched Dawn Harper's gold-winning time in the 100-meter hurdles final at the Beijing Games and would've been good enough to take that title at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

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Ennis runs personal best in 200, takes 184-point lead after Day 1 of Olympic heptathlon