Nordic Combined Events Championships

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Nordic Combined Events Championships
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Sport Combined track and field events
Founded1949
Ceased1970
Country Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland

The Nordic Combined Events Championships (Norwegian : Nordisk mesterskap i mangekamp) was an annual two-day competition in combined track and field events between athletes from the Nordic countries organised by Nordic Athletics. Established in 1949 as a biennial event, it lasted for ten editions before holding the last competition in 1970. Men competed in the decathlon and women competed in the pentathlon. The competition was hosted alongside the Nordic Marathon Championships. The stand-alone event was merged into the main Nordic Athletics Championships competition from 1961 to 1965. [1]

A junior category was incorporated into the 1969 championships and when the senior event was cancelled, the junior event was established in its own right as the annual Nordic Junior Combined Events Championships. [2]

Separate from this competition, a Nordic Pentathlon Championship was also contested as part of the Nordic Women's Cup in 1976. [1]

Editions

EditionYearCityCountryDateNo. of athletesNo. of nations
1st1949 Stockholm Sweden9–10 September
2nd1951 Tampere Finland2–3 August
3rd1953 Oslo Norway5–6 September
4th1955 Copenhagen Denmark3–4 September
5th1957 Gothenburg Sweden21–22 September
6th1959 Pori Finland29–30 August
7th1961 Oslo Norway31 July–2 August
8th1963 Gothenburg Sweden21–22 September
9th1965 Helsinki Finland15–16 August
10th1967 Copenhagen Denmark16–17 September
11th1968 Reykjavík Iceland6–7 July
12th1969 Kongsvinger Norway28–29 June
13th1970 Sollentuna Sweden28–29 August

References

  1. 1 2 Nordic Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. Competition Venues. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
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