Multi-Events

Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, and men’s indoor heptathlon in track and field meets: how a multi-event is one parent event with its component events, how to set one up and enter athletes, and how it’s scored.

What a multi-event is

A multi-event is a parent competition made up of several scored sub-events.

Examples:

• decathlon
• heptathlon
• pentathlon
• men’s indoor heptathlon

The athlete is competing in the combined event, but each discipline still produces its own result.

Set up a decathlon, heptathlon, or pentathlon

A multi-event is one parent event plus the component events under it. You create the parent, and 2Timer creates the components. Multi-events aren’t offered in the new-meet wizard; add them on Events:

1. Open Events and add an event with the Discipline Multi-Event.
2. In Type, choose Decathlon, Heptathlon, Pentathlon, or Men's Indoor Heptathlon.
3. Save. 2Timer creates the parent and every component event the type defines, in order.

The components are created for you. You do not build them separately and link them afterwards — 2Timer refuses that on purpose:

• component events cannot be created directly; create the parent instead
• component events cannot be deleted directly; delete the parent to remove them
• entries for a preset component must be added on the parent multi-event

If you open a component event on Entries, the page says so and links you to the parent.

Events in a decathlon, heptathlon, and pentathlon

Enter athletes in a multi-event

Add entries on the parent multi-event. 2Timer creates that athlete’s component entries across every component event.

Because the components are generated together, a component entry’s identity fields — athlete, bib, round, group — are managed from the parent. Add, move, or delete an athlete’s participation on the parent, not on an individual component.

With the parent selected on Entries, you get a grid with one column per component, so a whole multi-event can be scored from one screen.

How multi-event points are scored

Each component result is converted to points using the World Athletics fixed-formula scoring tables for that event and its mode — track, throw, horizontal jump, or vertical jump.

The athlete’s total points across all components determine the overall placing in the multi-event.

For team scoring, the multi-event counts as one event: each athlete scores team points for their place in the final standings, once every event is complete. The single events inside it don’t score team points on their own. See Track and Field Team Scoring.

Make the standings official

Each event in a multi-event has its own Unofficial, Under Review, or Official status, set on that event as on any other. The standings have their own as well, because the points can be protested too. Neither changes the other: the 100m can be Official while the standings are Under Review.

Select the multi-event on Entries. Once every event is complete, its status chip becomes a dropdown, and the standings go Official by themselves after the meet’s quiet period:

• The clock starts when the last event finishes, such as the 800m on day 2.
• A correction in any event restarts it, because it changes the points. Fixing a day-1 high jump mark starts the quiet period again.
• An event Under Review holds the standings. While the 100m hurdles is Under Review, the chip says “Won’t go official on its own while one of its events is Under Review”. You can still set the standings yourself.

See Make results official.

When an athlete withdraws partway

An athlete who competed in some events and then doesn’t start the next one has withdrawn from the multi-event. Every combined-events rulebook says so: they take no part in the events after it and aren’t placed in the final standing.

Two ways to record it:

• On the parent: open the athlete’s entry on the multi-event and set Status to Did Not Finish. 2Timer marks every event they haven’t competed in as Scratched and leaves the events they did compete in as they are.
• On the event they missed: set their status there to Did Not Start. 2Timer sees it and marks them Did Not Finish on the parent.

Their standing then reads DNF, with no place, below everyone who did every event. Their line still shows the points they scored in each event, and the total reads DNF, not the partial number. Their results still count in each event they competed in.

A bad event isn’t a withdrawal. Not finishing a race, fouling every attempt, clearing no height, or being disqualified in one event scores 0 for that event, and the athlete carries on and is placed on their total.

If you set Did Not Finish by mistake, set the parent’s status back to Entered: the scratched events return to Entered.

Multi-events: things to keep in mind

• Running components may still need heats or lane handling.
• Field components still use the normal field-series result entry.
• The combined standing depends on the component results being complete and accurate.
• The parent is a container: it carries the combined score, not a time or mark of its own.

Related Pages

• Track and Field
• Track and Field Setup
• Field Events
• Athletes and Entries
• Results and Reports

Metadata

• Last Updated: 2026-11-09
• Document Version: 0.5
• Status: Active