World champion Hanna Kasyanova (nee Melnychenko) held on to her overnight lead to win the heptathlon at the TNT Express meeting on Saturday (13), but her husband Oleksiy Kasyanov had to withdraw from the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting due to back pain.

World champion Hanna Kasyanova and her husband Oleksiy Kasyanov are the overnight leaders at TNT Express meeting in Kladno, part of the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

The duel between world heptathlon champion Hanna Kasyanova (nee Melnychenko) and local star Eliska Klucinova could highlight the TNT Express meeting in Kladno, part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge, on Friday and Saturday (12-13).

European heptathlon champion Antoinette Nana Djimou and European decathlon silver medallist Kevin Mayer will head to the Decastar meeting in Talence, France, with high hopes of securing the host nation’s first double win since 1977 at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting on 20-21 September.

The heptathlon at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting in the Austrian town of Gotzis on 31 May will feature Ukraine’s world champion and IAAF Combined Events Challenge winner Hanna Melnychenko, the Hypo-Meeting organisers announced on Wednesday (23).

The 17th edition of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge kicks off with the Oceania Combined Events championships in the Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday and Friday (3-4).

Brianne Theisen-Eaton opened the pentathlon with an explosive display in the first event, the 60m hurdles.

With just three days to go to the start of the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, which will be held between 7-9 March, the IAAF website editorial team have put the spotlight on some of the highlights expected this weekend in the women's events at the ERGO Arena.

There is just one week to go before the starting gun is fired on the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, which will be held in the Polish city of Sopot between 7-9 March.

World heptathlon champion Hanna Melnychenko takes our work, rest and play questions.

Belarus’s Andrei Krauchanka was the surprise winner of the decathlon in the 16th edition of the season-long 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge while Ukraine’s Hanna Melnychenko took the heptathlon victory.

Statisticians A Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava look back on the best combined events performances of the year with Julin covering the men’s events and Jalava the women’s.