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
Edition
Year
City
Country
Date
No. of athletes
No. of nations
1st
1949
Stockholm
Sweden
9–10 September
2nd
1951
Tampere
Finland
2–3 August
3rd
1953
Oslo
Norway
5–6 September
4th
1955
Copenhagen
Denmark
3–4 September
5th
1957
Gothenburg
Sweden
21–22 September
6th
1959
Pori
Finland
29–30 August
7th
1961
Oslo
Norway
31 July–2 August
8th
1963
Gothenburg
Sweden
21–22 September
9th
1965
Helsinki
Finland
15–16 August
10th
1967
Copenhagen
Denmark
16–17 September
11th
1968
Reykjavík
Iceland
6–7 July
12th
1969
Kongsvinger
Norway
28–29 June
13th
1970
Sollentuna
Sweden
28–29 August
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