Editing Track and field (section)

==Combined events==
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Combined (or multi-discipline) events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men's [[decathlon]] (ten events) and the [[women's heptathlon]] (seven events). Due to stadium limitations, indoor combined events competition have a reduced number of events, resulting in the [[men's heptathlon]] and the [[women's pentathlon]]. Athletes are allocated points based on an international-standard points scoring system, such as the [[decathlon scoring table]].

The [[Ancient Olympic pentathlon]] (comprising [[long jump]], javelin, discus, the ''[[Stadion (ancient sports)|stadion]]'' race and [[amateur wrestling|wrestling]]) was a precursor to the track and field combined events and this ancient event was restored at the [[athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games|1906 Summer Olympics]] ([[Intercalated Games]]). A men's all-around was held at the [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's all-around|1904 Summer Olympics]], contested between five American and two British athletes.

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