Ottavio Castellini for IAAF
15 June 2001 - The IAAF World Combined Events Challenge 2001 continues tomorrow and Sunday with the 5th Ruhrgas DLV-Mehrkampf-Meeting in Ratingen, Germany. This is the third stop of the Challenge following on from the Multistars in Desenzano del Garda (ITA) and the HYPO-Meeting in Götzis (AUT) where Czech Roman Sebrle recorded the new decathlon world record (9026 points).
Here are the entry lists for the 5th Ruhrgas DLV-Mehrkampf-Meeting:
Decathlon:
| N° | SURNAME | NAME | Date of Birth | Country | All Time Best | Best 2000 |
| 1 | Nool | Erki | 25-Jun-70 | EST | 8742 | 8742 |
| 2 | Podìbradský | Jan | 1-Mar-74 | CZE | 8314 | 8314 |
| 3 | Busemann | Frank | 26-Feb-75 | GER | 8706 (1996) | 8531 |
| 4 | Drews | Stefan | 12-Feb-79 | GER | 7812 | 7812 |
| 5 | Ibe | Philip | 5-May-75 | GER | 8000 (1999) | 7974 |
| 6 | Knabe | Sebastian | 13-Oct-78 | GER | 7812 | 7812 |
| 7 | Lukoschek | Daniel | 16-Aug-79 | GER | 7587 (2001) | 7309 |
| 8 | Maczey | Mike | 28-Feb-72 | GER | 8461 | 8461 |
| 9 | Mewes | David | 7-Oct-76 | GER | 8108 | 8108 |
| 10 | Niklaus | André | 30-Aug-81 | GER | 7891 (2001) | 7712 |
| 11 | Pöge | Thomas | 6-Sep-79 | GER | 7753 | 7753 |
| 12 | Röttger | André | 26-Mar-79 | GER | 7747 (1999) | 7690 |
| 13 | Schmid | Stefan | 6-Jul-70 | GER | 8485 | 8485 |
| 14 | Schönbeck | Florian | 13-Jan-74 | GER | 8127 | 8127 |
| 15 | Spahn | Matthias | 3-Jan-79 | GER | 7701 | 7701 |
| 16 | Magnússon | Jón Arnar | 28-Jul-69 | ISL | 8583w (1998) | 8206 |
| 17 | Lobodin | Lev | 1-Apr-69 | RUS | 8571 (1998) | 8071 |
Heptathlon:
| N° | SURNAME | NAME | Date of Birth | Country | All-Time Best | Best 2000 |
| 1 | Braun | Sabine | 19-Jun-65 | GER | 6985 (1992) | 6464 |
| 2 | Freisen | Maren | 15-Feb-82 | GER | 5909 (2001) | 5555 |
| 3 | Kesselschläger | Sonja | 20-Jan-78 | GER | 6053 (2001) | 6039 |
| 4 | Krieger | Sabine | 4-Sep-73 | GER | 6049 (2001) | 5826 |
| 5 | Mau-Repnak | Beatrice | 20-Feb-71 | GER | 6041 | 6041 |
| 6 | Meyer | Annika | 9-Jun-80 | GER | 5979 | 5979 |
| 7 | Porsche | Kristina | 25-Feb-80 | GER | 5474 | |
| 8 | Schrader | Annelie | 9-Dec-79 | GER | 5534 (2001) | 5388 |
| 9 | Specht-Ertl | Karin | 23-Jun-74 | GER | 6396 | 6396 |
| 10 | Tittman | Andrea | 1976 | GER | ||
| 11 | Kazanina | Svetlana | 31-Oct-71 | KAZ | 6228 (1999) | 6161 |
| 12 | Wlodarczyk | Urszula | 22-Dec-65 | POL | 6542 (1997) | 6470 |
| 13 | Belova | Irina | 27-Mar-68 | RUS | 6845 (1992) | nil |
| 14 | Prokhorova | Yelena | 16-Apr-78 | RUS | 6765 | 6765 |
| 15 | Roshchupkina | Natalya | 13-Jan-78 | RUS | 6633 | 6633  |