It took a long time for the official results of World Athletics’ Competition Performance Ranking to be published, but it is now official: Just as in 2025, Hypomeeting Götzis was the Combined Events competition with the best result score in 2026. With a Result Score of 9,721 points, the performances achieved at Hypomeeting Götzis rank first for the second consecutive year – this year ahead of the European Championships in Birmingham (9,657 points) and the World Indoor Championships in Toruń (9,587 points).

In the Combined Events Competition Score, which also takes the strength of the field into account through the Participation Score, the World Indoor Championships in Toruń lead Hypomeeting Götzis by just six (!) points, with 10,467 points. The sensational world record in the indoor heptathlon by Simon Ehammer (SUI) played an important role in the Competition Score for the World Indoor Championships, earning the event an additional 120 bonus points. The European Championships in Birmingham finished just four points behind Götzis in the Competition Score.

With a total score of 3,653 points, Annik Kälin (SUI) comfortably won this year’s overall World Athletics Combined Events Tour standings, 

ahead of Adrianna Sulek-Schubert (POL) with 3,458 points and Noor Vidts (BEL) with 3,407 points.

For Kälin, the results from Götzis (6,726 points = 1,218 Scoring Points), Ratingen (6,819 points = 1,236) and the European Championships in Birmingham (6,630 points = 1,199) counted toward her Tour total. She accumulated a total of 20,175 heptathlon points, which places her third on the all-time list, behind Anna Hall-Slayton (20,817 points – 2025) and Carolina Klüft (20,399 points – 2005). Since 2022, indoor Combined Events have also counted toward the Tour based on Scoring Points.

Simon Ehammer (SUI) won the World Athletics Combined Events Tour with 3,703 tour points. His results from the World Indoor Championships heptathlon in Toruń (6,670 points = 1,274 Scoring Points), the Silver Level meeting Multistars in Brescia (8,361 points = 1,182) and Hypomeeting Götzis (8,778 points = 1,247 Scoring Points) all contributed to his total. Newly crowned European champion Leo Neugebauer (GER) finished second with 3,676 Tour points, ahead of Hakim McMorris (USA) with 3,597 points.

World Athletics awards a total of USD 101,000 in prize money to the top eight athletes in both the heptathlon and decathlon, as well as in the indoor “side events,” the heptathlon and pentathlon. Considering that each winner at the recently held Ultimate Championships in Budapest received USD 150,000, the total prize money awarded across the World Athletics Combined Events Tour to the eight highest-ranked athletes suddenly seems rather modest…