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35th Multistars

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World Athletics Combined Events Tour

Another Gotzis win for Nafissatou Thiam

Jiri Sykora in action in the decathlon javelin in Arona

Zheng Ninali after winning the heptathlon in Arona

Six decathletes with 8000-point-plus PBs and seven athletes who have broken 6000 points in the heptathlon will battle at the 35th Multistars, the first Gold level meeting of the 2022 World Athletics Combined Events Tour, in Grosseto this weekend (30-1).
Dutch world seventh-place finisher Pieter Braun tops the decathlon list, while Swiss record-holder Geraldine Ruckstuhl leads the heptathlon entries.
Having previously been hosted in Desenzano del Garda, Florence and Lana &ndash; with Spain's Maria Vicente and Norway's Martin Roe claiming victory in the northern Italian town in 2021 &ndash; this year the event takes place in Grosseto for the first time. As well as victory, the respective World Athletics Championships Oregon22 standards of 8350 for the decathlon and 6420 in the heptathlon will also be among the targets for the leading entries.
Braun achieved his 8342-point PB when finishing third behind Damian Warner and Maicel Uibo at the 2018 edition of the G&ouml;tzis Hypo Meeting. He went on to place seventh at the following year&rsquo;s World Athletics Championships in Doha but was unable to finish his heptathlon competition at the European Indoor Championships in Torun the following year due to an ankle problem. His last completed decathlon was the World Championships in 2019, as he gets ready to make a 10-event return following injury struggles and having been forced to withdraw from the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
He will be joined by five other athletes who have surpassed 8000 points in the senior event: Estonia&rsquo;s Kristjan Rosenberg, Risto Lillemets and Taavi Tsernjavski, plus Axel Hubert of France and Venezuela&rsquo;s Georni Jaramillo.
Rosenberg, last year&rsquo;s Estonian champion, will be looking to go one better than his runner-up Multistars finish in 2019, while Lillemets is the 2020 national champion who went on to finish fifth at the 2021 European Indoor Championships, and Tsernjavski claimed his two Estonian titles in 2015 and 2018.&nbsp;
Hubert, who achieved 8000 points for the first time at his own organised decathlon competition in 2020, has since improved to 8260, while 2019 South American champion Jaramillo has a best of 8048.&nbsp;
Last year&rsquo;s European U20 silver medallist Sander Skotheim of Norway also has a PB over 8000 points, achieved in the U20 event, and he makes his senior decathlon debut in Grosseto.
Italy&rsquo;s Dario Dester returns to combined events action after his 10th-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22. Competing on home soil, he will be joined by his teammate in Belgrade, Sveva Gerevini, who finished ninth in the pentathlon after improving the national record to 4451 earlier in the season. 
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Italy's Sveva Gerevini at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Sixth in that global competition in Belgrade was Spain&rsquo;s Claudia Conte, and she also competes in Grosseto. Her PB of 6186, achieved when she claimed European U23 silver last year in Tallinn, puts her second on the Multistars entry list behind Ruckstuhl.
Ruckstuhl, meanwhile, achieved her 6391-point national record in Talence in 2018 and the following year became the European U23 champion and finished ninth at the World Championships in Doha. Like Braun, injury also denied her the chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics and in Grosseto she makes her return to competition for the first time since last June.
Alongside Ruckstuhl and Conte are five other heptathletes to have achieved 6000 points in their careers so far: Switzerland&rsquo;s Annik Kalin, Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Alysbeth Felix Boyer, Sofia Ifantidou of Greece, Poland&rsquo;s Paulina Ligarska and Myke van de Wiel of Netherlands.
Kalin, the 2019 European U20 bronze medallist, achieved her 6170 PB in 2020, while Puerto Rican record-holder and Olympian Felix Boyer&rsquo;s best of 6124 came in Cali in 2016. Two-time Multistars winner Ifantidou&rsquo;s 2012 PB is 6109, while Ligarska scored 6028 last year and Van de Wiel 6012, also in 2021.
<a href="https://multistars.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entry lists</a>

Six decathletes with 8000-point-plus PBs and seven athletes who have broken 6000 points in the heptathlon will battle at the 35th Multistars

Braun and Ruckstuhl lead fields for Multistars in Grosseto

Hans-Christian Hausenberg led an Estonian heptathlon top three on home soil, while Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek improved her pentathlon world lead at the Indoor Combined Events meeting &ndash; a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Silver event &ndash; in Tallinn this weekend (5-6).
Continuing Estonia&rsquo;s strength in the combined events, Hausenberg &ndash; the 2015 world U18 decathlon bronze medallist &ndash; had the heptathlon competition of his life to score 6143 points, breaking the 6000-point barrier for the first time. Risto Lillemets also beat 6000 points, scoring 6006 for second place, while Taavi Tsernjavski was third with 5840 points.
Their compatriot Maicel Uibo, the 2019 world decathlon silver and 2018 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist, was also among those in action &ndash; his results including a 2.19m high jump clearance &ndash; but his competition came to an end when he was unable to record a mark in the pole vault.
Just a single point separated the top two in the pentathlon, with Sulek improving her world-leading score with a PB of 4598 points for a narrow win ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills, who also achieved a personal best with her 4597 tally. That score adds 29 points to the previous world lead Sulek had set at the X-Athletics meeting in Aubiere the weekend before. Ukaraine&rsquo;s Yuliya Loban was third in Tallinn with 4482 points.
Hausenberg opened his campaign with a 60m win in 6.85, close to his PB of 6.82 from 2019, and maintained his lead with an outright long jump personal best of 7.92m. After 14.04m in the shot put &ndash; an event in which Vitaliy Zhuk of Belarus threw 16.46m &ndash; Hausenberg cleared 1.98m in a high jump topped by Uibos&rsquo;s 2.19m. At the end of day one, Hausenberg led with 3492 points ahead of Uibo&rsquo;s 3409.
Hausenberg started day two with a 60m hurdles PB of 7.96 and then cleared 5.22m in the pole vault before clocking 2:58.45 in the 1000m for his 6143-point PB score which places him fourth on this season&rsquo;s top list.
Portugal's Abdel Kader Larrinaga was fourth with 5810 points and Poland's Rafal Horbowicz fifth with 5556.
In the pentathlon, it was Mills who got off to the strongest start as she clocked an 8.17 PB, while Sulek ran 8.41. Sulek was ahead after the high jump thanks to her PB 1.87m clearance, while Mills managed 1.72m after feeling some discomfort in her knee.
Loban led the shot put with a 14.75m throw, with Mills managing 13.10m and Sulek 12.53m. Mills then leapt 6.37m in the long jump and Finland's Maria Huntington led after four events following her leap of 6.26m, with Sulek &ndash; who recorded 6.15m &ndash; sitting third behind Loban and Mills in fourth. Mills then went quickest in the 800m with 2:12.54, while Sulek clocked 2:14.32 to win the competition by one point.
Huntington was fourth with 4476 points and Poland's Paulina Ligarska fifth with 4301.
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<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-combined-events-tour/calendar-results/7166580/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indoor Combined Events Tallinn results</a>

Hans-Christian Hausenberg led an Estonian heptathlon top three on home soil.

Hausenberg and Sulek win in Tallinn

Simon Ehammer soared 8.26m for the longest ever long jump recorded in an indoor heptathlon, en route to a 6285-point victory, while Adrianna Sulek claimed a 4569-point pentathlon win at the X-Athletics meeting &ndash; a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Bronze event &ndash; in Aubiere, France, over the weekend (29-30).
Ehammer&rsquo;s long jump mark is also an outright world lead and Swiss indoor record, while as the world heptathlon best it improves on the previous best of 8.16m achieved by two-time Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he won the first of his three world indoor heptathlon titles with a world record score of 6645 points. Ehammer's previous long jump best was 8.15m, recorded outdoors in 2020, while his previous top indoor mark was 7.89m.
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The 21-year-old Ehammer also clocked 6.83 for 60m, threw 14.09m in the shot put and cleared 1.99m in the high jump on the first day of competition in Aubiere, before clocking 7.74 in the 60m hurdles, clearing 5.03m in the pole vault and running 2:54.68 for the 1000m on day two to achieve his world-leading PB of 6285 points. It is the third best ever performance by an U23 athlete, behind Eaton&rsquo;s 6499 points and France&rsquo;s world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer&rsquo;s 6297 points.
It was a Swiss top three in the X-Athletics heptathlon, with Andri Oberholzer finishing second with 5960 points and Finley Gaio placing third with 5838 points. Belgium's Benjamin Hougardy was fourth and Italy's Dario Dester fifth.
Mayer also contested a few of the events and clocked 7.73 for the 60m hurdles, cleared 5.13m in the pole vault, ran 6.92 for 60m and threw 15.58m in the shot put.
In the pentathlon, Poland's European U23 heptathlon champion Sulek also achieved a world lead, setting a 4569-point PB.
She opened her competition with a time of 8.34 in the 60m hurdles, before clearing 1.84m in the high jump, throwing 13.10m in the shot put, leaping 6.01m in the long jump and running 2:14.39 for 800m.
Spain's 2017 world U18 heptathlon champion Maria Vicente was second, coming close to her PB with 4495 points, while France&rsquo;s Leonie Cambours was third with 4457 points and Sveva Gerevini set an Italian record of 4434 points for fourth. Spain&rsquo;s Claudia Conte was fifth and Austria's world bronze medallist Verena Mayr sixth.
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Simon Ehammer set a world heptathlon best mark for the long jump en route to a 6285-point victory.

Ehammer leaps 8.26m en route to heptathlon win in Aubiere

The one-day series of the world&rsquo;s best cross country, combined events and race walking meetings will all move to a three-tier World Tour format from next month.
Adding the final pieces to the jigsaw of the restructuring of international athletics competitions, the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, Combined Events Tour and Race Walking Tour will replace the existing challenge and permit series with a more global spread of fixtures.
A combined amount of more than $400,000 in prize money will be on offer for the best tour performers, including a new pool of $75,000 for the best male and female cross country runners.
The development of these tours is part of a concerted effort by World Athletics to create a logical long-term global calendar of international events. It will also ensure more top-level competition opportunities and exposure for athletes in all areas of the sport.
As with the Continental Tour and World Indoor Tour, competitions within the new tours will be given either gold, silver or bronze status. The calendars for each tour &ndash; more details of which will be provided in the coming weeks &ndash; are already beginning to take shape.
The Cross Country Tour, for example, which gets underway later this month, is expected to have stops in North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe and will incorporate many of the world&rsquo;s biggest and most prestigious cross-country meetings that have been part of the Cross Country Permit series in recent years. Athletes who compete in Cross Country Tour meetings will also earn world cross country ranking points.
"One of our primary goals at World Athletics is to improve the competitive and earning opportunities for elite athletes around the world and these new tour formats are designed to do just that," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said. "They will also create new avenues for fans to watch our leading athletes, either in person or via broadcast or livestream. My thanks goes to World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon and Competition Director, Jakob Larsen, for the work they have been doing on the global competition calendar and the one-day meetings and the team they have now put in place to drive this critical area forward."
All gold-level Cross Country Tour meetings will be shown on the World Athletics YouTube Channel, and World Athletics is working to ensure a similar level of coverage for next year&rsquo;s Combined Events and Race Walking Tours.
In order to support the restructure of the global one-day competition calendar, World Athletics has made the following staff appointments.
Pierce O&rsquo;Callaghan has been appointed as Head of Competition Management after working as a consultant to World Athletics to establish the Continental Tour, expand the World Athletics Indoor Tour and lead the Global Calendar Unit in recent years. He has also been an international referee at four World Athletics Championships and four Olympic Games and was Director of Operations for the 2017 World Championships in London and Director of Readiness for the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Luca Verrascina has joined World Athletics as Competition Manager after serving as a Technical Delegate or International Technical Official at many World Athletics Series events. He was the Head of Competition at the 2016 World Race Walking Team Championships, the 2013 and 2017 European U20 Championships and the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome.
The Competition Department will continue to work on a number of key projects, including the integration of mass participation events into the World Athletics Series, the cohesion of one-day meetings and major championships, the development of the world rankings and qualification pathways for major championships, and a review of the competition rules.
Meeting and race organisers who are interested in having their events included in the new tours should send an email to <a href="mailto:competition@worldathletics.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competition@worldathletics.org</a> for more information.
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<h3>Regulations</h3>
&bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=dbbd6f71-d7c5-490f-a061-64035433ec66.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.7%20-%20Race%20Walking%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Walking Tour</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=8fc6e49c-7132-453d-abcb-91520f41681b.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.8%20-%20Combined%20Events%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combined Events Tour</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=fd7d4bb1-8dae-40a7-84d9-8b4116f99957.pdf&amp;urlslug=C1.9%20-%20Cross%20Country%20Tour%20Regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cross Country Tour</a>

The one-day series of the world’s best cross country, combined events and race walking meetings will all move to a three-tier World Tour format from next month.

World Tour competition structure announced for cross country, combined events and race walking

USA&rsquo;s Kendell Williams and Germany&rsquo;s Kai Kazmirek topped the end-of-season standings in the 2021 World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events.
Williams, who finished third in the 2019 edition of the series, won the overall title for the first time, tallying 19,574 points. Kazmirek, winner of this series back in 2016, landed his second title with a score of 24,500.
Rewarding season-long consistency at the highest level, the scoring system takes each athlete&rsquo;s three best marks from the series and combines the points into an overall score. Prize money is awarded to the top eight finishers at the end of the challenge. The athlete with the highest score wins US$30,000 and a wildcard entry to the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Williams, 26, started her season with her first ever podium finish at the prestigious Hypo Meeting in G&ouml;tzis, scoring 6383. She followed it with a lifetime best of 6683 to take second place at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene. She went on to place fifth at the Olympic Games with 6508 &ndash; her highest ever score at a major championships.
&ldquo;Plenty to smile about this season,&rdquo; she said after the Olympic Games. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always an honour to compete on the biggest stage and I&rsquo;m proud of the way I fought through two hard days of competition.&rdquo;
Williams has now secured a wildcard entry for next year&rsquo;s World Championships on home soil, so won&rsquo;t have to compete for a place on the team at the US Trials.
Spain&rsquo;s rising combined events star Maria Vicente finished second in the standings, following her national record of 6304 to win at the Multistars meeting in Lana, along with her 6274 score in Arone and 6117 performance at the Olympics.
Germany&rsquo;s Vanessa Grimm and Ratingen winner Georgia Ellenwood of Canada were close behind Vicente in the standings with just 60 points separating the trio. Benin&rsquo;s Odile Ahouanwanou, runner-up in Ratingen with a national record of 6274, was fifth.
Kazmirek&rsquo;s top score of the season came in his first decathlon of 2021 when he tallied 8190 to place seventh in G&ouml;tzis. He came close to matching that when winning in Ratingen with 8184, a performance which effectively sealed his place on Germany&rsquo;s Olympic team. He went on to place 14th at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a score of 8126.
&ldquo;This win means a lot to me, because the victory brings with it a wildcard for the World Championships,&rdquo; said Kazmirek.
As he is one of two German athletes with a wildcard, along with world champion Niklas Kaul, it will be down to the German Athletics Federation to decide which wildcard entry to accept for the 2022 World Championships.
Adam Sebastian Helcelet of the Czech Republic achieved runner-up finishes in Lana (8025) and Arona (8058) before placing 16th at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with 8004, giving him second place overall in the challenge standings.
Norway&rsquo;s Martin Roe beat Helcelet in Lana to take victory with 8055, then placed fourth in Arona (8016) and 19th in Tokyo, finishing third overall in the standings. Sweden&rsquo;s Fredrik Samuelsson and Estonia&rsquo;s Taavi Tsernjavski took fourth and fifth respectively. 
<h2>Final standings</h2>
Women 1 Kendell Williams (USA) 19,574 2 Maria Vicente (ESP) 18,695 3 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 18,661 4 Georgia Ellenwood (CAN) 18,635 5 Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN) 18,284 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-challenge-combined-events/standings/2021/women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complete standings</a>
Men 1 Kai Kazmirek (GER) 24,500 2 Adam Sebastian Helcelet (CZE) 24,087 3 Martin Roe (NOR) 23,934 4 Fredrik Samuelsson (SWE) 23,421 5 Taavi Tsernjavski (EST) 23,114 <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-challenge-combined-events/standings/2021/men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complete standings</a>

USA’s Kendell Williams and Germany’s Kai Kazmirek topped the end-of-season standings in the 2021 World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events.

Williams and Kazmirek win 2021 World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events

Germany&rsquo;s Kai Kazmirek and Canada&rsquo;s Georgia Ellenwood emerged the winners at the Stadtwerke Mehrkampf-Meeting, thanks to strong second-day performances at the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events meeting in Ratingen on Sunday (20).
With many combined events athletes seeking a last-ditch attempt at boosting their Olympic selection chances, both the decathlon and heptathlon contests were highly competitive. Kazmirek, the 2017 world bronze medallist, lined up against world champion Niklas Kaul and many other talented German decathletes. The heptathlon, meanwhile, featured world bronze medallist Verena Mayr and 2013 world champion Hanna Kasyanova.
Andreas Bechmann took the overall lead after the second event of the decathlon, following a wind-assisted 10.78 clocking in the 100m and a 7.32m leap in the long jump. A 15.38m PB in the shot put meant he extended his overall lead, while Kazmirek &ndash; who had long jumped 7.38m before hurling his shot 14.31m &ndash; sat in second place, 14 points ahead of Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek.
Germany&rsquo;s Tim Nowak was the top performer in the high jump, banking valuable points with his 2.06m clearance and moving into third overall. Bechmann and Kazmirek both cleared 2.03m, meaning their positions remained the same.
Kazmirek made a small dent in Bechmann&rsquo;s lead in the 400m, clocking 47.26 to the leader&rsquo;s 47.68, but the latter maintained his overall lead, ending the first day with 4370. A 48.41 run from Wiesiolek moved the Pole up to fourth overall, 42 points shy of third-placed Nowak.
Kaul, as is often the case on the first day of a high-quality decathlon, was further down the standings in eighth, slightly below the pace he set in G&ouml;tzis last month.
It didn&rsquo;t take long for Kazmirek to overtake Bechmann on day two. The 0.74 difference between them in the 110m hurdles (14.50 and 15.24) was enough to transpose their positions in the overall standings.
They remained in those positions through the next three events as Kazmirek threw 41.89m in the discus, cleared 5.00m in the pole vault and threw 56.69m in the javelin. Bechmann managed 42.23m in the discus, vaulted 4.80m and launched his spear 53.35m.
Kaul also got off to a strong start on day two, clocking a PB of 14.38 in the 110m hurdles. He then followed it with 44.85m in the discus and 4.90m in the pole vault. But, perhaps sensing at this point that no other German decathlete would produce a big enough mark to affect Kaul&rsquo;s likely selection for the Olympics, the 23-year-old withdrew from the competition after eight disciplines.
Nowak, who had been sitting in third place after the discus, suffered a snapped pole in the pole vault and sustained a hand injury in the process, so he too was a non-finisher. And Belgium&rsquo;s Niels Pittomvils, who was in third place before the 1500m, opted against finishing the competition.
It left Kazmirek, Bechmann and Mathias Brugger as the leading contenders going into the final discipline. Brugger uncorked an impressive 4:20.45 to win the 1500m, enough to carry him to 8080 points and ahead of Bechmann on the leader board. But it wasn&rsquo;t quite enough to catch Kazmirek, whose 4:42.00 run gave him a final winning score of 8184. Bechmann eventually finished third with 7955.
<h2>Ellenwood excels on second day</h2>
On Saturday, Odile Ahouanwanou enjoyed one of her best ever starts to a heptathlon.
The 30-year-old from Benin set two national records in the first four disciplines, clocking 13.25 in the 100m hurdles and throwing 15.79m in the shot put.
Her series also included a 1.73m leap in the high jump and a 24.45 run in the 200m, giving her a day-one score of 3830 &ndash; 52 points ahead of the pace she set en route to her lifetime best of 6210, set when finishing eighth at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.
But Finland&rsquo;s Maria Huntington was within striking distance. The 24-year-old ran a slightly wind-assisted 13.16 (2.2m/s) to win the 100m hurdles, then topped the high jump with 1.82m to maintain her lead. A 12.50m throw in the shot put meant she surrendered her lead to Ahouanwanou, but she ended her day with a 24.70 run in the 200m to bring her overall tally to 3712.
Ellenwood was in contention after the first two events, having clocked 13.40 in the 100m hurdles and cleared 1.76m in the high jump. She dropped to seventh overall after 12.29m in the shot put and maintained that position after the 200m (24.29), ending the first day 204 points behind Ahouanwanou.
Mayr finished the first day one place ahead of Ellenwood, safe in the knowledge that she had some strong events to come on day two.
Huntington closed in on Ahouanwanou at the start of the second day, leaping 6.39m to the African champion&rsquo;s 6.07m. But a javelin PB of 48.02m kept Ahouanwanou in pole position going into the final event.
Ellenwood, who had achieved 6.20m in the long jump, was the top performer in the javelin, throwing a big PB of 48.57m to move into second place overall. She still trailed Ahouanwanou by 153 points, but also knew that she was a much better 800m runner than the long-time leader.
The 2018 NCAA champion went for it in the final event, winning in a PB of 2:11.45 to end with a lifetime best score of 6314. Ahouanwanou finished 14 seconds adrift and slipped to second place overall, but she was rewarded with a PB of 6274, an improvement on her own national record.
Mayr, as expected, excelled in the final two disciplines, moving from sixth to fifth and then to third, scoring 6254.
Vanessa Grimm came out on top in the battle of the Germans, finishing fourth overall with 6231, comfortably ahead of fifth-placed Anna Maiwald (6069).
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&bull; <a href="https://www.leichtathletik.de/termine/top-events/mehrkampf-2021-ratingen/ratingen-2021-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>

Germany’s Kai Kazmirek and Canada’s Georgia Ellenwood emerged the winners at the Stadtwerke Mehrkampf-Meeting, thanks to strong second-day performances at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events meeting in Ratingen on Sunday (20).

Kazmirek and Ellenwood victorious in Ratingen

Germany&rsquo;s Niklas Kaul will be among the athletes looking to secure an Olympic spot when the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events moves on to the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting on 19-20 June.
The qualification period for combined events ends on 29 June, with the standards being 8350 points for the decathlon and 6420 points for the heptathlon.
<h3>Decathletes look to make their mark</h3>
Kaul has the standard for Tokyo thanks to his 8691-point PB to win the world title in Doha in 2019, but having decided not to compete in 2020, and following the elbow surgery he underwent that year, the 23-year-old is keen to make a statement and prove his form in Ratingen. He returned to decathlon action for the first time since Doha in G&ouml;tzis, scoring 8263 to finish fifth.
His compatriot Kai Kazmirek, the 2017 world bronze medallist, is another who has the standard from 2019 having scored 8444 to win in Ratingen and will be looking to get close to that to secure a spot for Tokyo.
Also among those fighting for places on Germany&rsquo;s Olympic team will be 2016 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist Mathias Brugger, who set his PB of 8304 points in 2018, and Tim Nowak, whose best is 8229 from 2018.
As well as the 11 athletes competing on home soil, the event will feature nine international decathletes including Ukraine&rsquo;s 2009 world bronze medallist Oleksiy Kasyanov, Japan&rsquo;s Asian champion Keisuke Ushiro and Sweden&rsquo;s Fredrik Samuelsson. 
<h3>Weissenberg and Grimm seek standard</h3>
Although she also has the Tokyo standard with the 6426-point score she achieved in 2019, Germany's 2017 world heptathlon silver medallist Carolin Schafer had been planning to compete in Ratingen to demonstrate her form. However, unexpected vaccination side effects have disrupted her preparation and she will no longer compete.
Among those in action will be Austrian record-holder Verena Mayr, who won world bronze in 2019 as Verena Preiner, and Austria&rsquo;s world indoor pentathlon silver medallist Ivona Dadic, who both have the Tokyo entry standard from 2019.
Others with the standard in their sights will be Germany&rsquo;s European U23 silver medallist Sophie Weissenberg and Vanessa Grimm, who set a PB of 6316 points to finish fifth in G&ouml;tzis at the end of last month.
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Germany’s Niklas Kaul will be among the athletes looking to secure an Olympic spot when the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events moves on to the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting on 19-20 June.

Kaul targets Tokyo in Ratingen

China&rsquo;s Zheng Ninali and Jiri Sykora of the Czech Republic came out on top at the Arona Combined Events meeting, the Spanish leg of the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events, held this weekend in the Canary Islands.
Zheng, who previously represented Canada and competed under the name Nina Schultz, added more than 200 points to her PB to win the heptathlon with 6358. Sykora, meanwhile, added one point to the PB he set back in 2016 to win the decathlon with 8122.
Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills got off to a strong start in the heptathlon, winning the 100m hurdles in 13.22, just 0.01 outside her recent career best set in Lana. Zheng was also just shy of her recent PB, clocking 13.39 for second overall.
Mills strengthened her lead with a PB of 1.85m in the high jump. The 21-year-old was only bettered in that discipline by Spain&rsquo;s Claudia Conte, who cleared a PB of 1.88m. Zheng, however, lost out on a few potential points with a clearance of 1.76m.
Switzerland&rsquo;s 2017 European U23 champion Caroline Agnou was the top performer in the shot put, throwing 14.92m, and was closely followed by France&rsquo;s two-time European champion Antoinette Nana Djimou (14.86m).
Mills managed 13.26m, enough to hold on to her lead, but Zheng produced a huge PB of 13.86m to climb up to second place overall. Belgium&rsquo;s European indoor silver medallist Noor Vidts remained in third place overall after throwing 13.31m.
Local star Maria Vicente bookended her day with PBs. Having clocked 13.51 in the 100m hurdles, she ended day one with a 200m PB of 23.33 (0.8m/s), catapulting the 20-year-old into third place overall in Arona, as well as into ninth place on the Spanish all-time list for 200m.
Mills and Zheng, who clocked 24.36 and 24.51 respectively for 200m, held on to first and second place overall with scores of 3823 and 3711.
Since taking bronze in the long jump at the 2019 European U20 Championships, Mills has had to switch her take-off leg for the event. So while her 6.08m leap in Arona was some way off her lifetime best, it was one of her top performances to date using her new approach.
Vicente, however, jumped 6.35m and closed the gap on the Briton to just 46 points. Zheng (6.23m) and Vidts (6.34m) performed solidly to maintain their position in the top four.
The positions changed again after the javelin. Despite a PB of 35.77m, Mills finally surrendered her lead to Zheng, who hurled a lifetime best of 48.26m. Vicente threw 46.75m, moving her into second overall, one place ahead of Mills and just 10 points behind Zheng. Vidts, meanwhile, managed a PB of 38.80m and remained in fourth, just 17 points shy of Mills.
In a thrilling 800m, Zheng ran a massive lifetime best of 2:14.49 to secure the overall victory with 6358. Vicente, who clocked 2:19.82 in the final event, held on to second place with 6274, just 30 points shy of her own national record. Thanks to a PB of 2:09.34 in the 800m, Vidts took third place with a lifetime best of 6240. Mills, who clocked 2:12.40, was relegated to fourth but rewarded with a PB of 6211. Fifth-place finisher Conte also achieved a PB (6029).
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m delighted with my performance today,&rdquo; said the 22-year-old Zheng. &ldquo;Beyond the win, I&rsquo;ve managed to be consistent in all the events; the last couple of years had been very difficult for me as I suffered injuries, but this season I&rsquo;ve come back strongly. I&rsquo;m especially proud of myself as this year I&rsquo;ve trained on my own.
&ldquo;Today I fell 62 points short of the Olympic standard,&rdquo; added the Commonwealth silver medallist. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure if I&rsquo;ll try it again before the deadline but anyway I&rsquo;m very happy with my season.&rdquo;
<h3>Sykora makes late charge to win decathlon</h3>
The men&rsquo;s event had been billed as a clash between European indoor silver and bronze medallists Jorge Ure&ntilde;a of Spain and Pawel Wiesiolek of Poland. Unfortunately, neither of them managed to finish the competition, but Sykora came through to lead a Czech 1-2 finish from compatriot Adam Sebastian Helcelet.
France&rsquo;s Ruben Gado and Spain&rsquo;s Pablo Trescoli were the fastest in the 100m, both timed at 10.83. Wiesiolek then took the overall lead after equalling his lifetime best of 7.63m in the long jump. 20-year-old Italian Dario Dester managed 7.61m, adding one centimetre to his career best and moving to second overall, 19 points behind the Pole.
A 7.54m leap kept Ure&ntilde;a in third place, but the Spaniard picked up an injury in the long jump and he was forced to drop out after the next event, the shot put.
With a 15.99m heave, Venezuela&rsquo;s Georni Jaramillo moved into fourth overall after the shot put. Helcelet was the only other athlete to surpass 15 metres (15.32m), elevating him to third while Wiesiolek managed to hold on to the lead after throwing 14.04m.
Wiesiolek, Dester and Helcelet all cleared 1.98m in the high jump, an event topped by Spain&rsquo;s Pablo G&aacute;mez (2.01m). But Dester closed in on Wiesiolek&rsquo;s lead after clocking 48.36 in the 400m, ending the first day with a score of 4221 to the Pole&rsquo;s 4239. Helcelet was in third, 95 points behind the Italian, while Sykora was a little further back in fifth (4067).
Dester finally overtook Wiesiolek in the overall standings after the 110m hurdles, clocking 14.46. Jaramillo was the top performer in that event, running 14.12.
The discus provided the biggest turning point of the weekend. Wiesiolek&rsquo;s competition ended after recording three fouls, while Dester surrendered his lead after throwing 38.21m. 2014 world U20 champion Sykora, meanwhile, threw a PB of 48.86m to jump from fifth to first overall.
Gado then moved back into contention after clearing 5.30m in the pole vault, putting him second overall in between Sykora (4.80m) and Helcelet (4.60m). 
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The Czech duo dominated the javelin with Helcelet prevailing over Sykora, 67.29m to 66.91m. Norway&rsquo;s Martin Roe moved into the top three overall after throwing 64.66m.
Sykora finished 10th in the final event, but his 4:51.42 clocking for 1500m was enough to secure victory with 8122. Helcelet ran 4:47.59, giving him a final score of 8058 for second place, while a 4:26.76 1500m win from Gado moved the French decathlete back into a podium position (8038). Roe was fourth with 8016.
The meeting also featured U20 and U18 competitions. In the U20 men&rsquo;s contest, Belgium&rsquo;s world U20 indoor record-holder Jente Hauttekeete exceeded the 8000-point barrier for the first time. He set PBs in the opening events, running 10.88 in the 100m and leaping 7.45m in the long jump. He had a scare in the shot put, but threw 14.19m after two fouls to remain on course. He excelled in the high jump, clearing 2.10m, and clocked a 50.08 400m PB to finish the first day.
On the second day the Belgian ran 14.38 in the 110m hurdles, threw 44.89m in the discus, cleared 4.50m in the pole vault and threw the javelin 52.92m before rounding out his weekend with a 4:37.84 clocking in the 1500m.
The 19-year-old ended with a national U20 record of 8034, putting him 12th on the world U20 all-time list.
Emeterio Valiente for World Athletics

China’s Zheng Ninali and Jiri Sykora of the Czech Republic came out on top at the Arona Combined Events meeting, the Spanish leg of the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events, held this weekend in the Canary Islands.

Zheng and Sykora take the spoils in Arona

Athletes will have Olympic qualification in mind when they head to the Meeting Internacional Arona in Tenerife on 12-13 June.
The Canary Islands competition made its debut as part of the&nbsp;World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events&nbsp;in 2019 and this 10th edition also gives athletes the opportunity to achieve standards for the Games in Tokyo ahead of the qualification period for combined events ending on 29 June. 
<h3>Nana Djimou and Zheng in heptathlon</h3>
Among those seeking the 6420-point heptathlon standard for Tokyo will be France&rsquo;s Antoinette Nana Djimou and China&rsquo;s Zheng Ninali.
Three-time Olympian Nana Djimou finished fourth at the London 2012 Olympics and also has three top eight places at the World Athletics Championships &ndash; in 2009, 2011 and 2013 &ndash; to her name. She will be looking to get close to her PB of 6576 points achieved at the 2012 Games to secure her spot at another global competition.
Competing as Nina Schultz, Zheng secured silver for Canada at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and now representing China will be looking to build on the 6153 PB score she set in Xi'an in April.
Joining them in Arona will be Switzerland&rsquo;s 2019 European U23 champion Geraldine Ruckstuhl and Spain&rsquo;s 2017 world U18 champion Maria Vicente, who scored 6304 points to win at the Multistars event in Lana in April, plus Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills, Switzerland&rsquo;s Caroline Agnou and Austria&rsquo;s Sarah Lagger. 
<h3>Sintnicolaas seeks decathlon standard</h3>
The decathlon qualifying mark for Tokyo is 8350 points and among the athletes aiming for that will be two-time world fifth-placer Eelco Sintnicolaas of the Netherlands. Having originally planned to return to decathlon action in April, Sintnicolaas decided to push that back a couple of months and will now hope to rediscover the sort of form which saw him achieve his 8539-point Dutch record in G&ouml;tzis in 2017.
Norway&rsquo;s Martin Roe returns as the 2019 champion, his national record of 8228 points having been set in Florence in 2018, while the entry list also features Venezuela&rsquo;s 2019 South American Championships winner Georni Jaramillo and Spain&rsquo;s Jorge Urena, who won European indoor heptathlon gold in 2019 and silver earlier this year, plus Czech Republic&rsquo;s Adam Helcelet and Japan&rsquo;s Keisuke Ushiro.&nbsp;
The meeting will also feature U20 and U18 competition.
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Athletes will have Olympic qualification in mind when they head to the Meeting Internacional Arona in Tenerife on 12-13 June.

Tokyo marks the target for athletes in Arona

Athletes will have Olympic qualification in mind when they head to the Meeting Internacional Arona in Tenerife on 12-13 June.
The Canary Islands competition made its debut as part of the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events in 2019 and this 10th edition also gives athletes the opportunity to achieve standards for the Games in Tokyo ahead of the qualification period for combined events ending on 29 June.
<h3>Nana Djimou and Zheng in heptathlon</h3>
Among those seeking the 6420-point heptathlon standard for Tokyo will be France&rsquo;s Antoinette Nana Djimou and China&rsquo;s Zheng Ninali.
Three-time Olympian Nana Djimou finished fourth at the London 2012 Olympics and also has three top eight places at the World Athletics Championships &ndash; in 2009, 2011 and 2013 &ndash; to her name. She will be looking to get close to her PB of 6576 points achieved at the 2012 Games to secure her spot at another global competition.
Competing as Nina Schultz, Zheng secured silver for Canada at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and now representing China will be looking to build on the 6153 PB score she set in Xi'an in April.
Joining them in Arona will be Switzerland&rsquo;s 2019 European U23 champion Geraldine Ruckstuhl and Spain&rsquo;s 2017 world U18 champion Maria Vicente, who scored 6304 points to win at the Multistars event in Lana in April, plus Britain&rsquo;s Holly Mills, Switzerland&rsquo;s Caroline Agnou and Austria&rsquo;s Sarah Lagger.
<h3>Sintnicolaas seeks decathlon standard</h3>
The decathlon qualifying mark for Tokyo is 8350 points and among the athletes aiming for that will be two-time world fifth-placer Eelco Sintnicolaas of the Netherlands. Having originally planned to return to decathlon action in April, Sintnicolaas decided to push that back a couple of months and will now hope to rediscover the sort of form which saw him achieve his 8539-point Dutch record in G&ouml;tzis in 2017.
Norway&rsquo;s Martin Roe returns as the 2019 champion, his national record of 8228 points having been set in Florence in 2018, while the entry list also features Venezuela&rsquo;s 2019 South American Championships winner Georni Jaramillo and Spain&rsquo;s Jorge Urena, who won European indoor heptathlon gold in 2019 and silver earlier this year, plus Czech Republic&rsquo;s Adam Helcelet and Japan&rsquo;s Keisuke Ushiro.&nbsp;
The meeting will also feature U20 and U18 competition.
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Damian Warner had gone into the Hypo Meeting aiming to become the event&rsquo;s first six-time winner but he ended up making history in other ways at the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events meeting in G&ouml;tzis on Sunday (30).
World decathlon bests of 8.28m in the long jump &ndash; a mark which also breaks Edrick Floreal's Canadian record &ndash; and 13.36 in the 110m hurdles helped multiple global medallist Warner to a lifetime best of 8995, smashing his own Canadian record and elevating him to fourth on the world all-time list.
<h3>Canadian 1-2 from start to finish</h3>
Warner opened his competition with 10.14 (0.7m/s) to lead the 100m &ndash; a mark just 0.02 off his own world decathlon best. His 8.28m (1.2m/s) long jump followed before marks of 14.31m in the shot put, 2.09m in the high jump to match his PB and 47.90 in the 400m.
It gave him a score of 4743, the best ever wind-legal day-one score and well ahead of PB pace.
&ldquo;Everything went well,&rdquo; said Warner in his trackside interview. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a long time since I was out here, so to come out here and perform this well is awesome.
&ldquo;Before I started doing the decathlon, I was a long jumper in high school. I had a couple of injuries and it didn't quite work out and I kind of gave up on the long jump and moved to the decathlon. It has always kind of picked at me &ndash; would I have been able to make it as a long jumper? Today's result was awesome because it shows if I keep working at it then I can compete with some of the world's best.&rdquo;
Compatriot Pierce LePage also enjoyed a strong start, clocking a 100m PB of 10.30. He went on to leap 7.45m, throw 14.31m in the shot put, clear 2.00m in the high jump and run 47.65 for 400m to score 4421 after the first five events.
Vitaliy Zhuk of Belarus launched himself up the standings by throwing a big outdoor shot put PB of 16.86m which he followed with a 1.97m high jump and 49.33 400m to end the day in third with 4279 points.
Like Warner, Belgium&rsquo;s Thomas van der Plaetsen also achieved 2.09m in the high jump which helped him to fifth place on 4254 points behind Dutch athlete Rik Taam with 4257 at the end of the first day.
Warner picked up where he left off on day two, scorching to a 13.36 clocking in the 110m hurdles to break his own world decathlon best.
He followed it with 48.43m in the discus, one of his best ever throws within a decathlon, and then cleared 4.80m in the pole vault, equalling his best ever decathlon vault and keeping him on pace for a score close to 9000 points.
A 59.46m throw in the javelin meant his task in the final discipline, the 1500m, would be a tough one if he were to break the 9000-point barrier. He produced one of his best ever runs for the metric mile, clocking 4:25.19 &ndash; just 0.46 shy of his lifetime best. Although it wasn&rsquo;t quite enough to make him the fourth member of the decathlon&rsquo;s 9000-point club, he was rewarded with a national record of 8995.
Just as Warner maintained pole position throughout the whole contest, LePage did likewise with his second-place spot, securing a Canadian 1-2 finish. He set PBs of 14.05 and 48.25m in the 110m hurdles and discus respectively. A 5.10m vault and 57.06m throw in the javelin kept him 100 points ahead of Van Der Plaetsen going into the 1500m.
With a 4:40.69 run, just ahead of Van Der Plaetsen&rsquo;s 4:41.39, LePage finished second with a PB of 8534. Van Der Plaetsen, who once again excelled in the pole vault (5.40m), was also rewarded with a PB in third, scoring 8430. Zhuk was fourth with 8331, ahead of world champion Niklas Kaul (8263).
<h3>Krizsan crushes Hungarian record</h3>
European indoor bronze medallist Xenia Krizsan came from behind in the final event to take heptathlon victory, improving on her own Hungarian record with 6651.
USA&rsquo;s Taliyah Brooks gained the early lead as she clocked 12.93 in the 100m hurdles, but her competition came to an end soon after, when she was unable to clear her opening height of 1.74m in the high jump. Pan American Games silver medallist Annie Kunz started with 13.12, while 2017 world bronze medallist Anouk Vetter ran 13.35 in the hurdles.
Adrianna Sulek moved into the lead after the high jump, thanks to a PB of 1.86m, while Krizsan moved into contention thanks to a 1.80m clearance, lifting her from seventh to third overall.
After two fouls in the shot put, Vetter maintained her composure to achieve the leading mark of 15.28m. USA&rsquo;s Annie Kunz took the overall lead, though, thanks to her throw of 15.22m. A 14.47m PB from Krizsan meant the Hungarian climbed into the No.2 spot overall.
Kunz maintained her lead after the 200m (24.07) while Vetter and Krizsan swapped places in the overall standings, posting respective times of 23.65 and 24.32. Norwegian 17-year-old Henriette Jaeger was the fastest overall in the 200m, clocking a PB of 23.28. 
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The second day started well for Krizsan as she leaped a PB of 6.41m in the long jump, moving her back into the second spot. Burkina Faso&rsquo;s Marthe Koala equalled her own national record of 6.64m to move into the overall lead. Cuba&rsquo;s Adriana Rodriguez achieved the same mark, temporarily moving her into the top three.
The positions changed again after the javelin, with Vetter excelling in her strongest event, throwing 54.77m. Krizsan wasn&rsquo;t too far behind, though, throwing 52.02m. It meant just 36 points separated the pair going into the final discipline, the 800m. Koala, Kendell Williams and Maria Huntington occupied the next three spots.
Krizsan, a strong 800m runner, easily made up the difference on Vetter in the final event, clocking 2:11.51 to Vetter&rsquo;s 2:22.33 and securing the title with 6651. Vetter took second place with 6536, her best ever score outside a major championships, while Williams came through to finish third with 6383.
Just 10 points separated the next four positions as the top seven women scored 6300+ and the first 12 finishers bettered 6200.
Jess Whittington and Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Damian Warner had gone into the Hypo Meeting aiming to become the event’s first six-time winner but he ended up making history in other ways at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events meeting in Götzis on Sunday (30).

Warner makes history in Götzis with sixth victory and 8995 score

Canada&rsquo;s multiple global medallist Damian Warner will aim to become the Hypo Meeting&rsquo;s first six-time winner when he competes at the World Athletics Challenge &ndash; Combined Events meeting in G&ouml;tzis, Austria, on 29-30 May.
But with the decathlon field also featuring the likes of Germany&rsquo;s world champion Niklas Kaul and world silver medallist Maicel Uibo of Estonia, Warner will have to work hard to make history, having joined Roman Sebrle and Carolina Kluft in winning five times following his 2019 victory.
The Canadian set his national record of 8795 points when winning the 2018 edition of the G&ouml;tzis event, having first triumphed in 2013 before his four consecutive wins between 2016 and 2019. During that time he also claimed world silver in 2015 and bronze in 2013 and 2019, as well as Olympic bronze in 2016 and world indoor heptathlon silver in 2018.
Kaul, meanwhile, set a PB of 8691 points to win the world title in 2019 and this will be his first decathlon since that performance in Doha. He returns to the Hypo Meeting for the third time, following a sixth-place finish in 2018 and a fourth-place finish in 2019.
Uibo, who scored a PB of 8604 in Doha, joins his fellow 2019 world medallists and will be looking to build on his runner-up finish in 2018 and third place in 2019.
Germany&rsquo;s 2015 winner Kai Kazmirek, who claimed world bronze in 2017, also returns, as do Canada&rsquo;s world fifth-placer Pierce LePage, who makes his second Hypo Meeting appearance, and Belgium&rsquo;s 2016 European champion Thomas van der Plaetsen.
Sweden&rsquo;s Fredrik Samuelsson, <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/news/feature/fredrik-samuelsson-yellow-wall-gotzis-decathlon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who wants to give his home-based 'Yellow Wall' a show to enjoy</a>, will be competing at the event for the fifth time.
<h3>Rodriguez and Vetter look to make their mark</h3>
The USA&rsquo;s Erica Bougard and Kendell Williams are among the leading names in the heptathlon field as they too return to multi events action for the first time since their respective fourth and fifth-place finishes at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.
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Bougard set her PB of 6725 points when finishing third at the 2018 edition of the Hypo Meeting, while Williams has a best of 6610 from 2019 and recently joined the seven-metre club in the long jump, soaring out to a lifetime best of exactly 7.00m in Georgia in April. She also backed that up with marks of 6.94m and 6.77m.
Among those looking to achieve the Olympic qualifying mark of 6420 points will be Cuba&rsquo;s 2018 world indoor pentathlon bronze medallist Yorgelis Rodriguez, who set the national record with her 6742 score when finishing second in G&ouml;tzis in 2018.
Another is Dutch record-holder with 6636 points Anouk Vetter, the 2017 world bronze medallist and 2016 European champion who recently explained how her indoor performances had <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/news/feature/vetter-heptathlon-comeback" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left her feeling &ldquo;back in the game&rdquo;</a> after setbacks including injury.
They will be joined in G&ouml;tzis by athletes including Hungary&rsquo;s Xenia Krizsan, who finished third at the last edition of the meeting in 2019, plus Burkina Faso&rsquo;s Marthe Koala and Nadine Broersen of the Netherlands.
Germany&rsquo;s Carolin Sch&auml;fer had been set to make her eighth Hypo Meeting appearance but announced on social media that "unexpected side effects" from her vaccination had affected her training.
The World Athletics Heritage Plaque which was <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/plaque/list/hypo-meeting-gotzis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded to the Hypo Meeting in 2019</a>&nbsp;will be unveiled by&nbsp;European Athletics Council Member Erich Teigamagi on the first day of the event.
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Canada’s multiple global medallist Damian Warner will aim to become the Hypo Meeting’s first six-time winner when he competes at the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events meeting in Götzis, Austria, on 29-30 May.

Calendar
Date	Meeting	Venue	Country
18–19 DEC 2021	Oceania Open Combined Events Championships	QSAC, Nathan, Brisbane	AUS
29–30 JAN 2022	X-Athletics	Stadium Jean-Pellez, Aubiére	FRA
05–06 FEB 2022	Indoor Combined Events	Lasnamäe Kergejõustikuhall, Tallinn	EST
30 APR–01 MAY 2022	35th Multistars	Stadio Zecchini, Grosseto	ITA
30 APR–01 MAY 2022	Kinami Michitaka Memorial Meet	Yanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka	JPN
07–08 MAY 2022	Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting	Stadionring, Ratingen	GER
14–15 MAY 2022	Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial	Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak Stadium, Bydgoszcz	POL
21–22 MAY 2022	Portarathlon	Municipal Stadium, Naxos	GRE
28–29 MAY 2022	England Athletics Combined Events Challenge	Bedford Athletic Stadium, Bedford	GBR
28–29 MAY 2022	Hypomeeting	Mösle-Stadium, Götzis	AUT
04–05 JUN 2022	Défi’Athlon	Montpellier	FRA
04–05 JUN 2022	XI Meeting Internacional Arona Pruebas Combinadas Tenerife 2022	Antonio Domínguez Stadium, Arona	ESP
11–12 JUN 2022	Nordic Championships in Combined Events	Seinäjoen keskusurheilukenttä, Seinäjoki	FIN
02–03 JUL 2022	Sollentuna Combined Events Challenge	Sollentunavallen, Sollentuna	SWE
17–18 SEP 2022	Décastar	Stade Pierre Paul Bernard, Talence	FRA

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