World Athletics
World rankings
Enter a performance to see your ranking score, then scroll to learn how it's built.
Why it matters
24 athletes
contest the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon at a World Championships or Olympic Games. Most spots are filled two ways — and your world ranking score is one of them.
By entry standard
10By world ranking
14Approximate — the split varies by cycle, plus a few wild-card spots on top.
How your ranking score is built
Result score + placing score = performance score. Your two best performance scores, averaged = ranking score.
Result score
Your combined-events total is converted to a Result Score using the official World Athletics scoring tables.
Placing score
A bonus is added for the meet you competed at and where you finished. Bigger meets and higher placings award more. The shaded cell is the worked example — 1st place at a category A meet = 80.
| Place | OW | GW | GL | A | B | C | D | E | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 280 | 140 | 110 | 80 | 60 | 45 | 30 | 20 | 10 |
| 2nd | 250 | 120 | 90 | 70 | 50 | 38 | 22 | 14 | 6 |
| 3rd | 225 | 105 | 75 | 60 | 45 | 32 | 18 | 10 | 3 |
| 4th | 205 | 90 | 65 | 50 | 40 | 26 | 16 | 8 | |
| 5th | 185 | 80 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 22 | 14 | 7 | |
| 6th | 170 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 19 | 12 | 6 | |
| 7th | 155 | 60 | 45 | 35 | 25 | 17 | 11 | ||
| 8th | 145 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 15 | 10 | ||
| 9th | 95 | 35 | 30 | ||||||
| 10th | 85 | 30 | 25 | ||||||
| 11th | 75 | 24 | 20 | ||||||
| 12th | 65 | 18 | 15 | ||||||
| 13th | 60 | ||||||||
| 14th | 55 | ||||||||
| 15th | 50 | ||||||||
| 16th | 46 |
- OW
- Olympics / World Champs
- GW
- World Indoor Champs
- GL
- area champs / upgraded Tour Gold
- A
- major games / Tour Gold
- B
- regional games / Tour Silver
- C
- U20 / Tour Bronze
- D
- third-tier regional
- E
- international matches
- F
- national permit / other
Performance score
Add the two together to get one competition's full score.
Ranking score
Your two best performance scores from the last 18 months are averaged.
A few more things
18-month window
Only performances from the last 18 months count toward your ranking. Anything older drops off.
Two performances minimum
You need at least two performance scores in the window to be ranked. One isn't enough.
One main event
At least one must be the main event — the decathlon for men, the heptathlon for women.
Worlds & Olympics protected
Your latest World Championships or Olympic Games result counts even if it falls outside the window.
Based on World Athletics Combined Events ranking rules, in force from 1 January 2020.