World Athletics Combined Events Tour

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.

World Athletics Combined Events Tour

Current season, competition or edition: 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour
Sport	Decathlon and heptathlon
Founded	1998
Organising body	World Athletics
Most recent champion(s)	Johannes Erm (men) Michelle Atherley (women) (2024)
Official website	Combined Events

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

World Athletics Combined Events Tour editions

Ed.	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

Gold level

Since the 2022 season the Tour calendar has been expanded and divided into three levels – Gold, Silver and Bronze.^[27]

World Athletics Combined Events Tour meetings

#	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	Brescia*	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	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	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	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	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	Nakło nad Notecią**	Poland																								X	X	X
9	Meeting de la Réunion	Réunion	France																							X

* The Multistars meet was held in Desenzano del Garda until 2012 and in 2023, 2013–2018 in Florence, 2019–2021 in Lana, 2022 in Grosseto and 2024 in Brescia.

** 2022–2023 was held in Bydgoszcz.

International competitions

• Summer Olympic Games
• World Athletics Championships
• Commonwealth Games
• Jeux de la Francophonie
• Mediterranean Games
• Universiade
• African Combined Events Championships
• Asian Athletics Championships
• Asian Games
• European Athletics Championships
• European Combined Events Team Championships
• Pan American Combined Events Cup
• Oceania Combined Events Championships
• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Results

Men

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
2024 details	Johannes Erm  Estonia	3661	Sander Skotheim  Norway	3624	Heath Baldwin  USA	3614

Women

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
2024	Michelle Atherley  United States	3466	Taliyah Brooks  United States	3421	Emma Oosterwegel  Netherlands	3421

See also

• World Athletics Race Walking Tour
• IAAF World Cross Challenge

References

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External links

• Home page
• Results at gbrathletics.com (1998-2005)
• IAAF combined events scoring tables
• 2009 IAAF Outdoor Handbook (PDF). Monaco: Multiprint. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2009.