Preview: Multistars 2023
“Finally, we are at home” declared Barbara Lombardi, breathing a sigh of relief in her command centre, at the Tre Stelle Stadium on the eve of the 36th Multistars competition…
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…
Rankings Analysis: 14 February 2023
This series of posts provides an analysis of key developments in the world rankings for combined events, and in qualification for major championships. You can read a full description of…
Rankings Analysis: 7 February 2023
This series of posts provides an analysis of key developments in the world rankings for combined events, and in qualification for major championships. You can read a full description of…
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…
Rankings Analysis: 31 January 2023
This series of posts provides an analysis of key developments in the world rankings for combined events, and in qualification for major championships. You can read a full description of…
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…