Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number oftrack and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men'sdecathlon and thewomen's heptathlon. Due to stadium limitations, indoor combined events competition have a reduced number of events, resulting in themen's heptathlon and thewomen's pentathlon. Athletes are allocated points based on an international-standard points scoring system, such as thedecathlon scoring table.[1] Other longer combined events do exist, such as theicosathlon (double decathlon) for men and thetetradecathlon for women. Indoors, both men and women compete in the tetradecathlon, with slightly different events to the women's outdoor version.[2]
Thethrows pentathlon consists of all four Olympic throwing events plus theweight throw. InSweden, the "Castorama" is also contested, which consists of all throws except the weight throw.[3][4]
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