Combined events at the Olympics

{{Olympic medalists in men's decathlon}}

• {{note label|nb|nb|nb}} The German total includes teams both competing as Germany and the United Team of Germany, but not East or West Germany.

{{Olympic medalists in women's heptathlon}}

Seven women have won multiple medals in Olympic heptathlon, while an eighth achieved this feat in the earlier Olympic Pentathlon. Of these, only Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Nafissatou Thiam have won three medals. Only Nafissatou Thiam won three titles.

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Consisted of 100 yards, shot put, high jump, 880 yd walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120 yd hurdles, weight throw, long jump and mile run.

Consisted of long jump, shot put, and 100 yards.

Consisted of long jump, javelin throw, 200 metres, discus throw, and 1500 metres. Eero Lehtonen was the most successful athlete in the event's three-edition history, winning two of the three gold medals on offer and being the only person to reach the podium twice.

{{Olympic medalists in men's athletics pentathlon}}

Consisted of 100 metres hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and 200 metres. In 1980, the 200 metres was replaced by the 800 metres. Burglinde Pollak, a bronze medalist in 1972 and 1976, was the only woman to win two Olympic pentathlon medals during its five-edition history.

{{Olympic medalists in women's athletics pentathlon}}

The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040614/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1906/ 1906 Athina Summer Games]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.

No strictly track and field combined event featured on the programme, as happened at the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the Greeks introduced a variation of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon. This contained four track and field events – standing long jump, ancient-style discus throw, javelin throw and a stadion race (192 m) – with the final event being Greco-Roman wrestling.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171303/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1906/ATH/mens-pentathlon-ancient.html Athletics at the 1906 Athina Summer Games: Men's Pentathlon (Ancient)]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.

American Martin Sheridan was the initial favourite, having already won gold and silver medals in individual jump and throws events, but dropped out due to injury. Lawson Robertson and István Mudin each won two of the rounds (Robertson the long jump and stadion, Mudin the discus and wrestling), but it was Sweden's Hjalmar Mellander who won the gold medal with 24 points. The Swede never finished in the top two of a round, but he performed consistently, never below seventh place in the 27-man field. Mudin of Hungary took a close second place with 25 points. Third place was taken by another Swede, Eric Lemming, who later went on to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the javelin throw.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417050639/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/eric-lemming-1.html Eric Lemming]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040743/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ATH/mens-pentathlon.html Athletics Athletics Men's Pentathlon Medalists]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040754/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ATH/mens-decathlon.html Athletics Men's Decathlon Medalists]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040726/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ATH/mens-all-around-championship.html Athletics Men's All-Around Championship Medalists]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040753/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ATH/womens-pentathlon.html Athletics Women's Pentathlon Medalists]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040732/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ATH/womens-heptathlon.html Athletics Women's Heptathlon Medalists]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.

;Olympic record progressions

• Mallon, Bill (2012). [https://www.webcitation.org/6OU97GUCM?url=http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/2012_athletics_stats5.pdf TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS - OLYMPIC RECORD PROGRESSIONS]. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.

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• [http://www.iaaf.org/disciplines/combined-events/heptathlon IAAF heptathlon homepage]
• [http://www.iaaf.org/disciplines/combined-events/decathlon IAAF decathlon homepage]
• [http://www.olympic.org/ Official Olympics website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214025/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/formcharts/13-lists/1291-olympic-track-a-field-athletics-the-records Olympic athletics records] from Track & Field News

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