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Thorpe Cup
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The Thorpe Cup is an annual international decathlon and heptathlon meeting between the United States and Germany.
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First held in 1993 in Aachen, the 2009 and 2010 events were staged at the Georg-Gaßmann-Stadion in Marburg. The meeting is named after the famous Olympian Jim Thorpe.
Tom Pappas holds the meeting record with 8569 points scored at the 2009 event.[1][2]