The 2019
IAAF Combined Events Challenge
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 hep ...
was the 22nd edition of the global series of
combined track and field event meetings organised by the
International Association of Athletics Federations
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
(IAAF). It featured
decathlon for men and
heptathlon for women. A total of eleven meetings were in the 2019 series, starting at the
Multistars
Multistars is an annual international Combined track and field events competition held in Lana, South Tyrol, Lana, Italy in late April or early May as part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. Established in 1988 the meeting took place in ...
meet on 27 April and finishing at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...
on 4 October.
Athletes scored points based on their performances at meetings in the series, with the overall winners being the athletes with the highest aggregate score over three meetings. The total prize money was US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each received $30,000, while second and third placed athletes were entitled to $20,000 and $15,000 respectively. Smaller prizes were given to the rest of the top eight finishers. The overall winners were
Damian Warner
Damian David George Warner (born November 4, 1989) is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and a three-time World medallist (silver in 2015, bronze in 2013 and 2019). Warner also won the ...
of Canada with 25,753 points in the decathlon and Austrian
Verena Preiner with 19,623 points in the heptathlon.
Warner and Preiner win 2019 IAAF Combined Events Challenge
World Athletics (2019-10-17). Retrieved 2019-11-17.
Calendar
The 2019 challenge included eleven meetings, covering invitational meetings, as well as national, regional and international championships and games.
Results
Men
Women
Points rankings
The following are the rankings of all athletes who competed at three series meets or more.
Men
Women
References
;Rankings
2019 Standing Men IAAF Combined Events Challenge
World Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
2019 Standing Women IAAF Combined Events Challenge
World Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
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Combined Events Challenge