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All About COMBINED EVENTS

SEE ALSO: FIELD ATHLETICS AND TRACK ATHLETICS

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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:

Heptathlon

Day one

Day two

Decathlon

Day one

Day two

There is also the Icosathlon - a double decathlon consisting of 20 events, including the 10 traditional decathlon events with 10 additional track and field events.

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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