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The 2014 IAAF Combined Events Challenge was a series of combined events for decathletes and heptathletes consisting of five stand alone challenge events, a series of continental combined events championships, and the combined events portions of a series of international athletics championships and multi-sports games. The challenge is organised under the auspices of the world governing body of athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Elite level competitors were crowned champions based on the aggregate points scored in three of the events. The total prize money available is US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $30,000, while second and third placed athletes are entitled to $20,000 and $15,000 respectively. Smaller prizes are given to the rest of the top eight finishers.
Calendar
The 2014 challenge takes in five challenge events, a number of regional combined events championships, and the combined events portions of a series of regional and international athletics championships.
Melbourne
Firenze
Gotzis
Kladno
Sacramento
Ratingen
Donetsk
Toruń
Ottawa
Glasgow
Marrakech
Zürich
Talence
Hans Van Alphen (BEL)
Eelco Sintnicolaas (NED)
Dmitry Karpov (KAZ)
Yordanis Garcia (CUB)
Ashley Bryant (GBR)
Einar Daði Lárusson (ISL)
Ali Kamé (MAD)
Guillaume Thierry (MRI)
Austra Skujytė (LTU)
Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa (LAT)
Jessica Samuelsson (SWE)
Yana Maksimava (BLR)
Györgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas (HUN)
Ida Marcussen (NOR)