Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of

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events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men's

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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 The pentathlon or women's pentathlon is a combined track and field event in which each woman competes in five separate events over one day (formerly two days). The distance or time for each event is converted to points via scoring tables, with t ...

. 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 the icosathlon (double decathlon) for men and the tetradecathlon for women. Indoors, both men and women compete in the tetradecathlon, with slightly different events to the women's outdoor version. The throws pentathlon consists of all four Olympic throwing events plus the

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. In

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, the "Castorama" is also contested, which consists of all throws except the weight throw.

Various combined events

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Track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

Athletics by type

Various combined events

See also

Notes and references

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