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A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. Events are typically held over a few days to accommodate the large number of events held, often more than those in single-sport competitions.
The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the Olympic Games, first held in modern times in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, one of a number of such events held in antiquity. Most modern multi-sport events have the same basic structure.
Most multisport events are endurance races, consisting of aerobic activities such as cycling, running, kayaking and cross-country skiing. Familiar events from the Olympic Games such as the pentathlon , heptathlon , octathlon , decathlon , and modern pentathlon are not usually considered to fall in this category, because their individual ...
In the sport of athletics, international competitions between national teams can be distinguished into four main types: Multi-sport events, commonly referred to as games, where athletics events form part of a wider sporting programme; World championships, the primary competitions where all nations may compete
Combined events at the Summer Olympics have been contested in several formats at the multi-sport event.There are two combined track and field events in the current Olympic athletics programme: a men's decathlon (100 metres, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 metres, 110 metres hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1500 metres) and a women's heptathlon (100 metres hurdles, high ...
Most of the major Continental multi-sports events – the Pan American, European, Asian and Pacific Games – are held this year, one year ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, in addition to the Francophone Games. 2023 sees the first combined cycling world championships, including all disciplines except Cyclo-cross, and the first mixed ...
Winter multi-sport events in the United States (7 C, 26 P) 0–9. 1959 Pan American Games (2 C, 5 P) 1981 World Games (2 C, 2 P) 1993 Summer Universiade (2 C, 3 P)
Wikipedia categories named after multi-sport events (99 C) Pages in category "Multi-sport events" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.