5-440: The World Athletics Combined Events Tour (formerly IAAF Combined Events Challenge and World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events ) is an annual series of combined track and field events meetings, organised since 1998 by World Athletics , with heptathlon for women and decathlon for men. The winners are decided by totalling the number of points that the athletes have scored in each of three combined events competitions during
10-456: A total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon . Due to stadium limitations, indoor combined events competition have a reduced number of events, resulting in the men's heptathlon and the women's pentathlon . Athletes are allocated points based on an international-standard points scoring system, such as the decathlon scoring table . Other longer combined events do exist, such as
15-584: Is US$ 202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $ 30,000, while second and third placed athletes are entitled to $ 20,000 and $ 15,000 respectively. Smaller prizes are given to the rest of the top eight finishers. All events of the 2020 season were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Since the 2022 season the Tour calendar has been expanded and divided into three levels – Gold, Silver and Bronze. * The Multistars meet
20-634: The season. Points scored are determined by the World Athletics combined events scoring tables. The series includes annual independent combined events meetings as well as championship level combined events competitions, such as the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games . It is the premier seasonal competition for decathletes and heptathletes, as combined events are not held for the Diamond League . The total prize money available
25-714: Was held in Desenzano del Garda until 2012 and in 2023, 2013–2018 in Florence , 2019–2021 in Lana , 2022 in Grosseto and 2024 in Brescia . ** 2022–2023 was held in Bydgoszcz . Combined track and field events Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to
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