IAAF Combined Events Challenge

IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Sport	Decathlon and heptathlon
Founded	1998
Official website	Combined Events

The 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 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 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.^[1]

All events of the 2020 season were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Editions

Edition	Year	Start date	End date	Meets	Ref.
1	1998
2	1999
3	2000	13 May	28 September		^[3]
4	2001	12 May	16 September	9	^[4]
5	2002	11 May	10 October	12	^[5]
6	2003	10 May	14 October	9	^[6]
7	2004	8 May	26 September	9	^[7]
8	2005	7 May	18 September	11	^[8]
9	2006	20 March	17 September	12	^[9]
10	2007	5 May	23 September	13	^[10]
11	2008	30 April	14 September	10	^[11]
12	2009	9 May	13 November	12	^[12]
13	2010	8 May	25 November	12	^[13]
14	2011	16 April	18 September	11	^[14]
15	2012	13 April	16 September	11	^[15]
16	2013	2 May	15 September	14	^[16]
17	2014	3 April	1 October	13	^[17]
18	2015	8 May	20 September	12	^[18]
19	2016	31 March	18 September	11	^[19]
20	2017	28 April	17 September	8	^[20]
21	2018	27 April	16 September	8	^[21]
22	2019	27 April	4 October	11	^[22]

Meetings

Annual

#	Meeting	City	Country	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
1	Multistars	Florence	Italy		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
2	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis	Austria	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
3	Décastar	Talence	France	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
4	Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen	Ratingen	Germany	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
5	Meeting International d'Arles	Arles	France						X	X	X	X	X	X	X
6	TNT – Fortuna Meeting	Kladno	Czech Republic													X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
7	Meeting Internacional Arona	Arona	Spain																						X	X

Prior to 2013, the Multistars meet was held in Desenzano del Garda

International competitions

Summer Olympic Games
World Athletics Championships
Commonwealth Games
Jeux de la Francophonie
Mediterranean Games
Universiade
African Combined Events Championships
Asian Athletics Championships
Asian Games
European Athletics Championships
European Combined Events Team Championships
Pan American Combined Events Cup
Oceania Combined Events Championships
USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Results

Men

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1998	Erki Nool Estonia	25967	Jón Arnar Magnússon Iceland	25708	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25604
1999	Tomáš Dvořák Czech Republic	26476	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25184	Chris Huffins United States	25067
2000	Erki Nool Estonia	26089	Tomáš Dvořák Czech Republic	26018	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25591
2001	Tomáš Dvořák Czech Republic	25943	Erki Nool Estonia	25839	Lev Lobodin Russia	25044
2002	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	26301	Tom Pappas United States	25506	Lev Lobodin Russia	25179
2003	Tom Pappas United States	26119	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	26047	Laurent Hernu France	2424
2004	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25952	Bryan Clay United States	25602	Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan	25336
2005	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25381	Bryan Clay United States	25199	Attila Zsivoczky Hungary	25185
2006	Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan	25145	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25029	Attila Zsivoczky Hungary	24950
2007	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	25261	Maurice Smith Jamaica	25220	Aleksey Drozdov Russia	24972
2008	Andrei Krauchanka Belarus	25448	Leonel Suárez Cuba	25344	Aleksandr Pogorelov Russia	24804
2009	Trey Hardee United States	25567	Yordanis García Cuba	25231	Oleksiy Kasyanov Ukraine	25056
2010^[23]	Romain Barras France	25063	Leonel Suárez Cuba	24857	Jake Arnold United States	24627
2011	Leonel Suárez Cuba	25172	Eelco Sintnicolaas Netherlands	24772	Mikk Pahapill Estonia	24746
2012	Hans Van Alphen Belgium	25259	Pascal Behrenbruch Germany	25117	Oleksiy Kasyanov Ukraine	24822
2013	Andrei Krauchanka Belarus	25084	Damian Warner Canada	24980	Pascal Behrenbruch Germany	24768
2014	Rico Freimuth Germany	24981	Eelco Sintnicolaas Netherlands	24795	Yordanis García Cuba	24423
2015	Ilya Shkurenyov Russia	25259	Michael Schrader Germany	25252	Damian Warner Canada	25247
2016	Kai Kazmirek Germany	25221	Jeremy Taiwo United States	24928	Adam Helcelet Czech Republic	24498
2017	Rico Freimuth Germany	25592	Damian Warner Canada	25152	Kai Kazmirek Germany	24986
2018	Arthur Abele Germany	25222	Pieter Braun Netherlands	24412	Martin Roe Norway	24376
2019	Damian Warner Canada	25753	Maicel Uibo Estonia	25138	Pierce LePage Canada	25059

Women

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1998	Urszula Włodarczyk Poland	19235	Irina Belova Russia	19146	Remigija Nazarovienė Lithuania	19053
1999	Eunice Barber France	19880	Sabine Braun Germany	19271	Irina Belova Russia	19115
2000	Sabine Braun Germany	19151	Natalya Roshchupkina Russia	19127	Natallia Sazanovich Belarus Urszula Włodarczyk Poland	19047
2001	Yelena Prokhorova Russia	19624	Natalya Roshchupkina Russia	19357	Natallia Sazanovich Belarus	19264
2002	Sabine Braun Germany	18987	Shelia Burrell United States	18747	Austra Skujytė Lithuania	18570
2003	Carolina Klüft Sweden	20295	Yelena Prokhorova Russia	19019	Larissa Netšeporuk Estonia	18482
2004	Carolina Klüft Sweden	20541	Kelly Sotherton United Kingdom	19072	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	18825
2005	Carolina Klüft Sweden	20399	Eunice Barber France	20388	Kelly Sotherton United Kingdom	19150
2006	Carolina Klüft Sweden	20124	Lyudmyla Blonska Ukraine	19232	Lilli Schwarzkopf Germany	19168
2007	Lyudmyla Blonska Ukraine	19895	Jessica Ennis United Kingdom	19256	Austra Skujytė Lithuania	18994
2008	Hyleas Fountain United States	19759	Tatyana Chernova Russia	19575	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	19430
2009	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	19487	Jennifer Oeser Germany	19255	Hanna Melnychenko Ukraine	19239
2010	Jennifer Oeser Germany	19303	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	19110	Eliška Klučinová Czech	18608
2011	Jennifer Oeser Germany	19594	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	19408	Karolina Tymińska Poland	19361
2012	Antoinette Nana Djimou France	19510	Austra Skujytė Lithuania	19408	Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa Latvia	19031
2013	Hanna Melnychenko Ukraine	19310	Brianne Theisen-Eaton Canada	19158	Claudia Rath Germany	19014
2014	Nadine Broersen Netherlands	19573	Carolin Schäfer Germany	19164	Lilli Schwarzkopf Germany	18973
2015	Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa Latvia	19422	Claudia Rath Germany	19189	Anouk Vetter Netherlands	19112
2016	Carolin Schäfer Germany	19573	Anouk Vetter Netherlands	19302	Barbara Nwaba United States	19163
2017	Carolin Schäfer Germany	20199	Anouk Vetter Netherlands	19496	Yorgelis Rodríguez Cuba	19166
2018	Carolin Schäfer Germany	19608	Erica Bougard United States	19399	Kateřina Cachová Czech Republic	19025
2019	Verena Preiner Austria	19623	Erica Bougard United States	19507	Kendell Williams United States	19437

References

^ "IAAF Combined Events Challenge - Regulations 2015" (PDF). IAAF.
^ "World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events Archive of Past Events". www.worldathletics.org.
^ 2000 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2001 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2002 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2003 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2004 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2005 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2006 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2007 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2008 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2011 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2012 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2016 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2017 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2018 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ 2019 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ van Kuijen, Hans (16 December 2010). Barras and Chernova are the overall winners of the 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-12-16.

External links

Home page
Results at gbrathletics.com
IAAF combined events scoring tables
2009 IAAF Outdoor Handbook Archived 6 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2009).

[1] "IAAF Combined Events Challenge - Regulations 2015" (PDF). IAAF.

[2] "World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events Archive of Past Events". www.worldathletics.org.

[3] 2000 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[4] 2001 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[5] 2002 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[6] 2003 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[7] 2004 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[8] 2005 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[9] 2006 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[10] 2007 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[11] 2008 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[12] 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[13] 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[14] 2011 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[15] 2012 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[16] 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[17] 2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[18] 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[19] 2016 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[20] 2017 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[21] 2018 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[22] 2019 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[23] van Kuijen, Hans (16 December 2010). Barras and Chernova are the overall winners of the 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-12-16.

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