All About COMBINED EVENTS
LISTS: List of Sports, Olympic Athletics Events
SEE ALSO: FIELD ATHLETICS AND TRACK ATHLETICS
OVERVIEW
Combined athletics events are competitions to decide who is the best all-round athlete. They each consist of a number of events. The usual order of events is this:
Biathlon
- Skiing
- Shooting
Triathlon
- 1500 metre swimming
- 40 kilometre cycling
- 10 kilometre running
Modern Pentathlon
- Fencing
- Swimming
- Shooting
- Cross-country running
- Riding
Heptathlon
Day one
- 100 metre hurdles
- High jump
- Shot putt
- 200 metres
Day two
- Long jump
- Javelin
- 800 metres
Decathlon
Day one
- 100 metres
- Long jump
- Shot putt
- High jump
- 400 metres
Day two
- 110 metre hurdles
- Discus
- Pole vault
- Javelin
- 1500 metres
DETAILED RULES
The events are completed in order, and there is usually at least a thirty minute break between events (not for biathlon or triathlon). For most athletics competitions, three false starts are permitted for combined events, as opposed to two for single events. For Olympic competition, however, two false starts are permitted for combined events, one for single events.
The combined events competition are different to other athletics competitions because the object is to score points rather than win every event. Points are awarded relative to the height, length, or time achieved. It is possible to win the competitions without winning the events individually, providing the scores are high enough when compared with the other competitors.
The rules for the events are the same as if the events were competed in individually. There are only a few differences. In the long jump and throwing events, each competitor has three chances only, with the best time being used, and for the running events, three, not two, false starts are permitted.
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