Preview: Heptathlon, European Indoors, Istanbul
The second preview of events this weekend in the Atakoy Arena in Istanbul: the men’s heptathlon. Kevin Mayer is the obvious choice for favourite, and fully fit and in form…
Preview: Pentathlon, European Indoors, Istanbul
On Friday 3rd March 2023, the European Indoor Championships pentathlon will take place in Istanbul. The landscape of pentathlon has changed since double Olympic champion Nafi Thiam won her European…
Preview: Tallinn Combined Events, 4-5 February 2023
After an exciting competition last weekend in Clermont Ferrand and a WTF performance from Kyle Garland, we move onto Tallinn for the annual Combined Events meeting. This year our Estonian…
Review: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont Ferrand
At the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand on the weekend of 28th and 29th January, Makenson Gletty and Leonie Cambours shone as the top French athletes, Simon Ehammer secured perhaps…
Preview: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont-Ferrand
I first attended the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand in January 2019, the year I decided I was going to put my lifelong love for the combined events out into…
Review: England Combined Events Champs 2023, Sheffield
In Azusa, California in April 2022, Sam Talbot quietly improved his decathlon best by 600 points to score 7643. He followed that with 7692 points a few weeks later in…
Preview: England Athletics Combined Events Champs, Sheffield
There’s been something in the air of late in UK combined events. An edge, a heightened confidence, a sense of grit. Athletes stepping up into international competitions, holding their own…
The Decathlon Pioneers
“Training for the decathlon as a woman can get lonely at times,” says AnnaLee McGregor, “but the Women’s Decathlon Association Championships is such a great opportunity to compete with other…
Review: European Championships decathlon, Munich 2022
There was something about the set of Niklas Kaul’s jaw as he concluded the penultimate event of the 2022 European Championships decathlon in the Munich Olympastadion. This was a different…
Review: World Championships decathlon, Eugene 2022
In a field that included the Olympic champion, the world champion and the world record holder, in the home of Ashton Eaton’s first world record a decade earlier in 2012,…