Nordic Combined Events Championships Explained

Sport:Combined track and field events
Country:Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland
Founded:1949
Folded:1970

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
1st 1949 Sweden 9–10 September
2nd 1951 Finland 2–3 August
3rd 1953 Norway 5–6 September
4th 1955 Denmark 3–4 September
5th 1957 Sweden 21–22 September
6th 1959 Finland 29–30 August
7th 1961 Norway 31 July–2 August
8th 1963 Sweden 21–22 September
9th 1965 Finland 15–16 August
10th 1967 Denmark 16–17 September
11th 1968 Iceland 6–7 July
12th 1969 Norway 28–29 June
13th 1970 Sweden 28–29 August

References

Editions

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/nc.htm Nordic Championships
  2. http://www.nordic-athletics.org/wp-content/uploads/Venues.pdf Competition Venues