(Article courtesy of World Athletics)
The Combined Events Tour takes each athlete’s best three marks across the series and converts them into result scores (also used as the basis of the world rankings system). Winners of the Combined Events Tour, which features both indoor and outdoor meetings, receive a US$30,000 prize.
The top eight at the end of the season are:
Heptathlon
1 Michelle Atherley (USA) 3466
2 Taliyah Brooks (USA) 3421
3 Emma Oosterwegel (NED) 3421
4 Kate O’Connor (IRL) 3326
5 Vanessa Grimm (GER) 3320
6 Verena Mayr (AUT) 3303
7 Lovisa Karlsson (SWE) 3290
8 Tori West (AUS) 3289
Full standings
Decathlon
1 Johannes Erm (EST) 3661
2 Sander Skotheim (NOR) 3624
3 Heath Baldwin (USA) 3614
4 Sven Roosen (NED) 3599
5 Devon Williams (USA) 3477
6 Felix Wolter (GER) 3454
7 Tim Nowak (GER) 3450
8 Jente Hauttekeete (BEL) 3447
Full standings
Atherley’s highest single heptathlon score of the season came at the Hypomeeting in Gotzis in May, where the US athlete scored a PB of 6465 points to place third. Her results in Gotzis included a PB and meeting record of 12.71 in the 100m hurdles and a PB of 13.67m in the shot put.
She went on to finish fourth at the US Olympic Team Trials with 6391 points and her series also included a 6372-point win at the Mt. SAC Relays in April.
Her US compatriot Taliyah Brooks secured second place in the series. After retaining her title at the Multistars meeting in Brescia in April with a PB-equalling 6330 points, she improved to a PB of 6408 to finish third at the US Olympic Team Trials and then competed at the Olympic Games in Paris, where she was 11th with 6258.
After winning the Combined Events Tour last year, Dutch heptathlete Emma Oosterwegel was third this time but it was incredibly close. She ended the season on 3421 tour points – the same as Brooks – and finished third overall as Brooks had a higher single heptathlon score (6408 to 6386).
That 6386 performance for Tokyo bronze medallist Oosterwegel came on the biggest stage of them all, as she achieved the fifth-best score of her career to finish seventh at the Olympics in Paris. She also finished fourth in Gotzis with 6337 points and second at the season-ending Decastar in Talence on 6273 points.
In the decathlon, Estonia’s Erm had the season of his life. He won the European title in Rome in June, setting a PB of 8764 that put him third on the season top list. His series also included a score of 8462 to finish third at the Hypomeeting in Gotzis and he ended his…
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