World Athletics Combined Events Tour

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World Athletics Combined Events Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour
SportDecathlon and heptathlon
Founded1998
Official websiteCombined Events

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 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[edit]

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]
23 2021 24 April 5 August 6 [23]
24 2022 30 April 18 September 6 [24]
25 2023 29 April 24 September 6 [25]
26 2024 27 January 15 September 13 [26]

Meetings[edit]

Gold level[edit]

From 2022 season the Tour calendar was expanded and divided into three levels – Gold, Silver and Bronze.[27]

# Meeting Place Country 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24
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 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 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 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 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 X X
8 Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial Bydgoszcz Poland X X
9 Meeting de la Réunion Réunion France X

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

International competitions[edit]

Results[edit]

Men[edit]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1998
details
Erki Nool
 Estonia
25967 Jón Arnar Magnússon
 Iceland
25708 Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25604
1999
details
Tomáš Dvořák
 Czech Republic
26476 Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25184 Chris Huffins
 United States
25067
2000
details
Erki Nool
 Estonia
26089 Tomáš Dvořák
 Czech Republic
26018 Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25591
2001
details
Tomáš Dvořák
 Czech Republic
25943 Erki Nool
 Estonia
25839 Lev Lobodin
 Russia
25044
2002
details
Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
26301 Tom Pappas
 United States
25506 Lev Lobodin
 Russia
25179
2003
details
Tom Pappas
 United States
26119 Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
26047 Laurent Hernu
 France
2424
2004
details
Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25952 Bryan Clay
 United States
25602 Dmitriy Karpov
 Kazakhstan
25336
2005
details
Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25381 Bryan Clay
 United States
25199 Attila Zsivoczky
 Hungary
25185
2006
details
Dmitriy Karpov
 Kazakhstan
25145 Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25029 Attila Zsivoczky
 Hungary
24950
2007
details
Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic
25261 Maurice Smith
 Jamaica
25220 Aleksey Drozdov
 Russia
24972
2008
details
Andrei Krauchanka
 Belarus
25448 Leonel Suárez
 Cuba
25344 Aleksandr Pogorelov
 Russia
24804
2009
details
Trey Hardee
 United States
25567 Yordanis García
 Cuba
25231 Oleksiy Kasyanov
 Ukraine
25056
2010[28] Romain Barras
 France
25063 Leonel Suárez
 Cuba
24857 Jake Arnold
 United States
24627
2011
details
Leonel Suárez
 Cuba
25172 Eelco Sintnicolaas
 Netherlands
24772 Mikk Pahapill
 Estonia
24746
2012
details
Hans Van Alphen
 Belgium
25259 Pascal Behrenbruch
 Germany
25117 Oleksiy Kasyanov
 Ukraine
24822
2013
details
Andrei Krauchanka
 Belarus
25084 Damian Warner
 Canada
24980 Pascal Behrenbruch
 Germany
24768
2014
details
Rico Freimuth
 Germany
24981 Eelco Sintnicolaas
 Netherlands
24795 Yordanis García
 Cuba
24423
2015
details
Ilya Shkurenyov
 Russia
25259 Michael Schrader
 Germany
25252 Damian Warner
 Canada
25247
2016
details
Kai Kazmirek
 Germany
25221 Jeremy Taiwo
 United States
24928 Adam Helcelet
 Czech Republic
24498
2017
details
Rico Freimuth
 Germany
25592 Damian Warner
 Canada
25152 Kai Kazmirek
 Germany
24986
2018
details
Arthur Abele
 Germany
25222 Pieter Braun
 Netherlands
24412 Martin Roe
 Norway
24376
2019
details
Damian Warner
 Canada
25753 Maicel Uibo
 Estonia
25138 Pierce LePage
 Canada
25059
2021
details
Kai Kazmirek
 Germany
24500 Adam Helcelet
 Czech Republic
24087 Martin Roe
 Norway
23934
2022
details
Lindon Victor
 Grenada
3608 Simon Ehammer
  Switzerland
3578 Marcus Nilsson
 Sweden
3436
2023
details
Karel Tilga
 Estonia
3622 Sander Skotheim
 Norway
3572 Lindon Victor
 Grenada
3539

Women[edit]

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
2021 Kendell Williams
 United States
19574 María Vicente
 Spain
18695 Vanessa Grimm
 Germany
18661
2022 Adrianna Sułek
 Poland
3498 Annik Kälin
  Switzerland
3463 Emma Oosterwegel
 Netherlands
3409
2023 Emma Oosterwegel
 Netherlands
3454 Sophie Weissenberg
 Germany
3433 Saga Vanninen
 Finland
3399

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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