Chernova is the overall winners of the 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Monte Carlo - Russia’s Tatyana Chernova is the overall winner of the 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge and will receive a payment of $30,000 from the IAAF.
After meetings in Europe, America, Africa, Australia and Asia, the 2010 IAAF Combined Events Challenge concluded recently in the Chinese city of Guangzhou with the competitions of the Asian Games.
2010 was the 13th successive year of the Combined Events Challenge, and, as well as the five individual permit meetings (Desenzano, Götzis, Kladno, Ratingen and Talence), this season the series included the European Championships in Barcelona, Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Asian Games in Guangzhou, African Championships in Nairobi, and Open Oceania Championships in Australia, European Cup meetings and the USA Championships.
The Challenge offers a total of US$202,000 in Prize Money paid by the IAAF which is distributed to both the top-8 men and women as follows: 1st $30,000, 2nd $20,000, 3rd $15,000, 4th $10,000, 5th $8000, 6th $7000, 7th $6000, 8th $5000.
Athletes had to complete three competitions to be eligible to contend for the overall prize money, and in 2010 fifteen male athletes and twenty women made the grade. In total 308 athletes completed at least one Decathlon or Heptathlon.
Click on the link below to read the full story and access results and the final rankings on the IAAF website: http://www.iaaf.org/WCE10/news/newsid=58939.html
