Event Equivalents Calculator
Every event scores on the same 0 to 1400 World Athletics points scale. Enter one performance and read the mark that scores the same points in every other event. It is the comparison combined events scoring relies on.
Equivalents use the points calculator, which stays within 1 point of the official tables in any event. For official values, consult the World Athletics scoring tables PDF.
Equivalents
For 100m: 10.00s · 1206 pts · click an event to make it the reference
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How event equivalents work
Enter your performance
Pick your event and gender, then type your time or mark. The input format is the same as the points calculator: SS.ss, M:SS.ss or metres, depending on the event.
It's scored on the WA points scale
The performance is converted to World Athletics points using the official 2025 tables, on the 0 to 1400 scale shared by every track and field event.
Every other event is inverted to match
For each remaining event, the tool works backwards from that points total to the performance that would score it. Every line in the table then sits at one consistent level.
Why one points total maps to many performances
World Athletics points put a sprint, a jump and a throw on one scale from 0 to 1400. Combined events use the same system to add seven or ten disciplines into a single score. An event equivalent runs that scale in reverse: it starts from one performance's points and asks what mark in every other event would score the same.
The tool first scores your performance with the World Athletics scoring tables, then looks for the mark in each other event that is worth the same number of points. The further apart two events are, the less the comparison says: a 100 m and a 200 m compare well, a 100 m and a marathon much less so.
The scoring curve is a quadratic for each event, not a straight line, so equivalents between very short and very long events can look uneven. That comes from the official tables, not from this calculator. Read an equivalent as a comparison of standard, not as a prediction of what an athlete would run or throw in another event.
Event equivalents — FAQ
The two performances score the same number of World Athletics points, so they sit at the same standard on the official scale. It is not a prediction that an athlete who produces one would produce the other.
The scoring curve is not a straight line: each event has its own quadratic. Near a sprint world record, a small gain is worth relatively more than the same percentage gain over a marathon, so the relationship between events is less intuitive than you might expect.
Use it to compare standard across events. It says nothing about an athlete's physiology, training history or event-specific skill, and how well sprint speed carries into the long jump, for example, varies a lot from one athlete to the next.
No. The tool uses the points calculator, which stays within 1 point of the official tables in any event. Going through points to a second event can add a point or two on top.
Only events open to the selected gender are listed. Men run the 110m hurdles and women the 100m hurdles, so the other one never appears. An event whose formula returns a non-positive performance at that points total is also dropped.