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: 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: US Trials and Ratingen
In the small hours of Friday night (for European readers) the mighty US Championships decathlon and heptathlon got underway in Fayetteville. As the sun started to set on Sunday evening…
Review: World Indoors 2022, Belgrade
HEPTATHLON 60M “It’s bloody fast!” was the conclusion after the first event of the men’s heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. The words were those of Australia’s Ash…
Preview: World Indoor Championships 2022, Belgrade
Pretty much every preview you will read of the combined events competitions at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade this weekend will focus on the Olympic and World champions in…
Rankings Analysis: 15 February 2022
This is the first in a new weekly series of posts providing an analysis of developments in qualification for major championships, and the current world rankings for combined events. The…
Review: X-Athletics, Clermont Ferrand 2022
Multiple national records, multiple world leads and the only world record* set on Saturday that would survive the day, X-Athletics in Clermont Ferrand was the place to be on 29th…
Preview: X-Athletics, Clermont Ferrand 2022
Forget the Millrose Games, forget Karlsruhe. The action this weekend is in Clermont Ferrand, at the X-Athletics multievent meeting – the meeting with the best logo in the athletics! Every…
Götzis 2021: Preview
And we’re back! After a break in 2020 because of The Pandemic, we return to the Mösle-Stadion for the world’s best multi-event competition. The organisers have left no stone unturned…