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The Meeting Arona Pruebas Combinadas, also known as the Meeting Internacional Arona-Tenerife, is an annual combined events competition held in Arona, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. As of 2024, it is a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold level meeting – the highest-level circuit of international decathlon and heptathlon competitions.
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (déka, meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are ...
Decathlon's former logo. Founded by Michel Leclercq in 1976, Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France. [9] Its holding company was formerly known as Oxylane. [10]The company expanded abroad a decade later: to Germany in 1986, [11] Spain in 1992, [11] [12] Italy in 1993, [11] [citation needed] Belgium in 1997, [13] Portugal, the United Kingdom in 1999, Brazil in 2001, mainland China in ...
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Dott [19] Terragona: Dott [19] Seville [311] Sevici: 3 Gen. Cyclocity April 2007: Torrent: nextbike [16] Urdaibai: nextbike [16] Valencia [312] Valenbisi: 3 Gen. Cyclocity JCDecaux 22 June 2010: Valladolid: Biki Zaragoza: Bizi: 3 Gen. Clear CC 28 May 2008: Sweden Gothenburg: Bolt [313] nextbike [16] Styr & Ställ [314] 3 ...
The men's decathlon combined event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place on 7 & 8 September. The favorite was Joachim Kirst , who had won the European Championship in 1969 and 1971 . The decathletes were unfortunate, as they had to re-open the Olympics, the morning after the postponement due to the tragic events of the Munich massacre .
Arona is a municipality in the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spanish region and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. The municipality covers an area of 81.79 square kilometres comprising 4% of the island's area. The town of Arona is 59 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital ...
Daley Thompson's Decathlon was the ninth best-selling computer game of 1985 in the United Kingdom. [5]Sinclair User gave the game a score of 8/10. [1] The game won the award for Best (Overall) Arcade Game in the Crash magazine Readers Awards 1984 [6] and was the Best Arcade-Style Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. [7]
The area where Santa Cruz currently lies belonged to Menceyato Guanche Anaga, which was the most easterly of the island.The city that is now Santa Cruz had a few names throughout its history: Añazo or Añaza (Guanche name), Puerto de Santiago Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Santiago de Tenerife, [16] and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (current), which means: "holy cross of Tenerife," in memory ...