Pentathlon (indoor), women

What to remember

Hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump, then a flat race: the indoor pentathlon is held in a single day, with 60 m hurdles instead of the outdoor 100 m and an 800 m to finish. In Istanbul on March 3, 2023, at the European Championships, Belgium's Nafi Thiam scored 5,055 points, the world record for the event.

Times and distances are turned into points through scoring tables, and the sum decides the result. Outdoors, elite competition switched to the seven-event heptathlon in 1981, so the pentathlon lives on mainly indoors, as well as at school and masters level.

Thiam turned those championships into a habit: European indoor pentathlon champion in 2017, 2021 and 2023, she took her third title in Istanbul together with the record. In the heptathlon she won the Olympic Games in Rio, Tokyo and Paris, and the world championships in London in 2017 and in Eugene in 2022.