Combined track and field events

Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track 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's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.

Due to stadium limitations, indoor combined events competition have a reduced number of events, resulting in the men's heptathlon and the women's pentathlon.

Athletes are allocated points based on an international-standard points scoring system, such as the decathlon scoring table.

[1] Other longer combined events do exist, such as the icosathlon (double decathlon) for men and the tetradecathlon for women.