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IAAF World Combined Events Challenge 2001 (2)

Sep 30, 2025
By its fourth year, the Challenge had begun to establish itself as an important platform not just for stars, but also for rising athletes to measure themselves across multiple competitions, creating more depth in decathlon and heptathlon.
1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting
P Decathlete Points Result Venue Result Venue Result Venue
1 Tomaš Dvorak
Czech Rep.
25943 8527 Götzis 8902 Edmonton 8514 Brisbane
2 Erki Nool
Estonia
25839 8604 Götzis 8815 Edmonton 8420 Brisbane
3 Lev Lobodin
Russia
25044 8465 Götzis 8352 Edmonton 8227 Brisbane
4 Oleksandr Yurkov
Ukraine
24968 8380 Arles 8264 Edmonton 8324 Talence
5 Attila Zsivoczky
Hungary
24762 8173 Götzis 8218 Arles 8371 Edmonton
6 Stefan Schmid
Germany
24675 8287 Ratingen 8307 Edmonton 8081 Talence
7 Laurent Hernu
France
24605 8112 Arles 8280 Edmonton 8213 Talence
8 Jiri Ryba
Czech Rep.
24249 7949 Ried 8332 Edmonton 7968 Talence

Comments (2)

Elchanan Bar Lev wrote on May 20, 2011
Amazingly, there was no room in your 2001 list to the Gotzis winner of that year, who broke the world record in the process - Roman Sebrle.
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Janek Salmistu wrote on May 20, 2011
Yes, because he had only 2 finished IAAF Challenge competitions - Götzis and Edmonton WC!
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