Score a decathlon, heptathlon or indoor pentathlon event by event with the official formulas, see both days, and find the 1500m or 800m time a points goal needs.
Women's Decathlon calculator: points for all ten events
Score a decathlon, heptathlon or indoor pentathlon event by event with the official formulas, see both days, and find the 1500m or 800m time a points goal needs.
This page opens the calculator on the women's decathlon: 100m, discus, pole vault, javelin and 400m on day one; 100m hurdles, long jump, shot put, high jump and 1500m on day two, scored with the official combined events formulas and rounded down to whole points. It is filled in with example marks: 12.40, 38.00 m, 3.60 m, 45.00 m, 58.50, 14.60, 5.80 m, 12.50 m, 1.70 m and 5:05.00, which add up to 7,845 points (3,818 on day one, 4,027 on day two). Replace them with your own marks, in meters or in feet and inches, or leave the last event empty and set a points goal to see the mark it needs.
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Decathlon, heptathlon and pentathlon points, event by event
Ten marks go in, one score comes out: 10.62, 8.07, 16.57, 2.00, 47.74, 13.80, 45.51, 5.00, 68.53 and 4:35.13 make 8,902 points, the winning score sheet printed in the official combined events tables. This decathlon calculator scores the men's and women's decathlon, the women's heptathlon, the men's indoor heptathlon and the women's indoor pentathlon with the World Athletics formulas. It keeps a running total, splits the two days, accepts jumps and throws in feet and inches, and works out the mark you need in the last event for a points goal.
Filling in a score sheet
- Combined event - men's decathlon, women's heptathlon, women's decathlon, men's indoor heptathlon or women's indoor pentathlon. Only the events of that competition appear, grouped into races, jumps and throws; the result table lists them in the order the rules run them.
- Timing - fully automatic, or hand-held stopwatch. Hand times are rounded up to the tenth and get 0.24 s added below 400m and 0.14 s at 400m before scoring.
- Points goal - optional, a whole number such as 7000. Leave exactly one event empty and the result gives the mark that event needs.
- Race times - seconds with hundredths for sprints and hurdles (11.25), min:sec for the 800m, 1000m and 1500m (4:35.13).
- Jumps and throws - meters (6.45) or feet and inches (21-02.25, 21' 2.25"). Any event can stay empty; the total covers the events entered so far. Then read the total, the two days, the strongest and weakest event and the running table.
Eight score sheets, from championship podiums to a club meet
Sheet 1: the men's decathlon winner printed in the tables
Situation:10.62 / 8.07 / 16.57 / 2.00 / 47.74 / 13.80 / 45.51 / 5.00 / 68.53 / 4:35.13Result: 8,902 points, 4,637 on day one and 4,265 on day two. Every event score matches the printed sheet, from 947 in the 100m to 711 in the 1500m.
Sheet 2: the American on the heptathlon podium
Situation:13.05 / 1.67 / 12.87 / 22.92 / 6.45 / 48.74 / 2:14.24, Sheila Burrell (USA) on the printed women's sheet.Result: 6,472 points. Her 1117 in the hurdles and 1087 in the 200m carried a high jump worth 818.
Sheet 3: the 800m she would have needed for 6,500
Situation: the first six marks of sheet 2, the 800m empty, goal6500.Result: 5,568 after six events, 932 more needed, which takes 2:12.28 or faster. Her actual 2:14.24 scored 904.
Sheet 4: a club decathlete in feet and inches
Situation:11.20 / 21-08 / 41-00 / 6-01 / 51.50 / 15.80 / 125-00 / 13-09.25 / 165-00 / 4:45.00Result: 6,884 points. The conversions land at 6.60 m, 12.49 m, 1.85 m, 38.10 m, 4.19 m and 50.29 m; the strongest event is the 100m (817), the weakest the javelin (593).
Sheet 5: what the 1500m needs for 7,000
Situation: the same athlete in meters after nine events, goal7000.Result: 6,232 points, so the 1500m has to bring 768: 4:26.53 or faster, more than 18 seconds quicker than 4:45.00.
Sheet 6: a heptathlon timed by hand
Situation:14.60 / 1.65 / 11.50 / 25.80 / 5.70 / 40.00 / 2:25.00, once with automatic timing, once with a stopwatch.Result: 5,316 automatic, 5,263 by hand. The hurdles become 14.84 s and the 200m 26.04 s; the 800m has no correction.
Sheet 7: the women's decathlon
Situation:12.40 / 38.00 / 3.60 / 45.00 / 58.50 / 14.60 / 5.80 / 12.50 / 1.70 / 5:05.00Result: 7,845 points, 3,818 on day one and 4,027 on day two. The discus is the weakest event at 615.
Sheet 8: the indoor events
Situation: men's indoor heptathlon7.05 / 7.20 / 14.00 / 2.00 / 8.10 / 4.90 / 2:45.10, women's indoor pentathlon 8.45 / 1.80 / 13.00 / 6.20 / 2:15.40Result: 5,913 and 4,532 points. The pentathlon runs in one day, so there is no day split.
Men's decathlon: the mark each points level takes
The weakest mark that still scores the points in each column, worked from the formulas. A steady 800 per event is an 8,000-point decathlon; 700 per event is 7,000.
| Event | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | 1000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100m (s) | 12.26 | 11.75 | 11.27 | 10.82 | 10.39 |
| Long jump (m) | 6.06 | 6.51 | 6.95 | 7.36 | 7.76 |
| Shot put (m) | 11.89 | 13.53 | 15.16 | 16.79 | 18.40 |
| High jump (m) | 1.77 | 1.89 | 2.00 | 2.11 | 2.21 |
| 400m (s) | 54.98 | 52.58 | 50.32 | 48.19 | 46.17 |
| 110m hurdles (s) | 17.23 | 16.29 | 15.41 | 14.59 | 13.80 |
| Discus throw (m) | 36.79 | 41.72 | 46.59 | 51.40 | 56.17 |
| Pole vault (m) | 3.94 | 4.30 | 4.64 | 4.97 | 5.29 |
| Javelin throw (m) | 50.74 | 57.45 | 64.09 | 70.67 | 77.19 |
| 1500m | 4:53.20 | 4:36.96 | 4:21.77 | 4:07.42 | 3:53.79 |
Women's heptathlon: the same ladder
Seven events, so a steady 900 per event is a 6,300-point heptathlon and 800 per event is 5,600.
| Event | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | 1000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100m hurdles (s) | 16.97 | 16.12 | 15.32 | 14.56 | 13.85 |
| High jump (m) | 1.49 | 1.57 | 1.66 | 1.74 | 1.82 |
| Shot put (m) | 11.07 | 12.58 | 14.09 | 15.58 | 17.07 |
| 200m (s) | 28.40 | 27.14 | 25.97 | 24.86 | 23.80 |
| Long jump (m) | 5.15 | 5.50 | 5.84 | 6.17 | 6.48 |
| Javelin throw (m) | 36.46 | 41.68 | 46.87 | 52.04 | 57.18 |
| 800m | 2:37.70 | 2:29.47 | 2:21.77 | 2:14.52 | 2:07.63 |
The formulas and the rules behind every total
Each event has three constants, a, b and c, published in the IAAF Scoring Tables for Combined Events. Races use a(b - T)c with the time in seconds, jumps a(M - b)c with the mark in centimeters, and throws a(D - b)c with the distance in meters. The result is always rounded down: 123.999 is 123. For the men's 100m, a = 25.4347, b = 18.00 and c = 1.81, so 10.40 seconds scores 999 and a hand-timed 10.4 scores 942, the two worked examples printed in the tables.
These are not the World Athletics scoring tables used to compare single-event marks. The combined events tables are their own system, built so that top decathletes land near the same totals as before, and so that a specialist in one event cannot make up for weak performances in the others. The order of events is fixed by the rules: 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m on the first day of the men's decathlon, then 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m. The rules also ask for at least 30 minutes between events for each athlete and, where possible, at least 10 hours between the two days.
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