Nordic Combined Events Championships

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]

Nordic Combined Events Championships
SportCombined track and field events
Founded1949
Ceased1970
CountryFinland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland

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
Edition Year City Country Date No. of athletes No. of nations
1st1949StockholmSweden9–10 September
2nd1951TampereFinland2–3 August
3rd1953OsloNorway5–6 September
4th1955CopenhagenDenmark3–4 September
5th1957GothenburgSweden21–22 September
6th1959PoriFinland29–30 August
7th1961OsloNorway31 July–2 August
8th1963GothenburgSweden21–22 September
9th1965HelsinkiFinland15–16 August
10th1967CopenhagenDenmark16–17 September
11th1968ReykjavíkIceland6–7 July
12th1969KongsvingerNorway28–29 June
13th1970SollentunaSweden28–29 August

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