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One of the most exciting and unpredicted event of athletic program of XX Olympic Games in Munich 1972 was the women’s Pentathlon. The people of the host country – West Germany – were keen to see the second victory of their local hero …

Excellent GDR athletes, thrilling battle for second spot

Simon Ehammer is the Swiss national record holder in decathlon as well as in heptathlon

World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold Meeting

Leo Neugebauer has broken the 39 ‐years old German decathlon record. He scored 8836 points at the NCAA Division Championships in Austin, Texas (2023). Year later he won second consecutive men’s decathlon title at the NCAA in Eugene, …

In February 2025, Sander Skotheim scored 6484 points to break the European heptathlon record, scoring 6484. In March 2025, he won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and broke his own European …

A lesson in just one aspect of how sport science can and needs to be applied to all athletic skill teaching

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). Pentathlon events: 60m hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and 800m.

This handy combined events points calculator allows you to calculate women's heptathlon scores.

List of current World Record in each event compared to the best decathlon record in each event

World Athletics Combined Events Tour

Thriling contest with surprise winner

Equal Pentathlon scores, but not equal spot on the podium

USA until 02 February 2020 – eligible to represent Australia in National Representative Competitions (see World Athletics Eligibility to Represent a Member Rule 1.4.2) from 31 July 2020