Combined track and field events

{{short description|Combination of different athletics disciplines within a competition}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://cheshireaa.com/statistics/CEscoring.htm|title=Multi-Events scoring|publisher=cheshireaa.com|access-date=2 November 2012}} Other longer combined events do exist, such as the icosathlon (double decathlon) for men and the tetradecathlon for women. Indoors, both men and women compete in the tetradecathlon, with slightly different events to the women's outdoor version.{{Cite web|url = http://icosathlon.over-blog.com/pages/Whats_IAUM_-1684547.html|title = What's IAUM ? - I A U M : International Association for Ultra Multievents|last = Cédric|website = I A U M : International Association for Ultra Multievents|language = fr-FR|access-date = 2016-04-07}}

The throws pentathlon consists of all four Olympic throwing events plus the weight throw. In Sweden, the "Castorama" is also contested, which consists of all throws except the weight throw.{{cite web |title=Friidrottsstatistik |url=https://www.friidrottsstatistik.se/resultsswe.php?Season=2021&CID=12995040&lang=eng |website=www.friidrottsstatistik.se |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=sv}}{{cite web |title=What's new? (2020) Print |url=https://support.rosterathletics.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44002146396-what-s-new-2020- |website=Roster Athletics |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en |quote="Castorama" (CE for throws)}}