What sports should be included in a "-thlon"-event to decide the ultimate sportsman/woman?

[Swewi 381]

Inspired by the olympics, decathlon/heptathlon and modern pentathlon I was thinking about what sports could be included in a new "totallympicathlon" , "sportathlon" or whatever it could be called. The point is to have around 12 events to really say who is the ultimate sports-person. And the sports should be accessinble for most people to pratice, in comparison to modern pentathlon.
 

I Ask first of all just for an interesting discussion about how an ultimate sports competition could look like but I am also a bit serious and dreaming about organising this kind of event for real some day.

 

It should include endurance, power, speed, accuracy.

 

some ideas of events:

long jump

shot put 

3000 or 5000m running

Cycling sprint

100m freestyle swimming

bench press

squat

Table tennis

badminton

basketball penalties

football skills such as dribbling course and hardest shot on target.

mini golf 

 

 

 

i also thought about a team version where the teams play each other in these sports:

volleyball

football

basketball

probably floorball in a Swedish version 

4x400m relay

 

Of course there could also be a winter version!

 

any thoughts?😃

[Mkbw50 438]

Speed

200m

100m Freestyle

Cycling Sprint

 

Endurance

5,000m

800m Freestyle

Biathlon

 

Precision

Shooting 10m Air Rifle

Archery

Curling

 

Strength

Weightlifting

Shot Put

 

Intelligence

Chess boxing

 

Fearlessness

BMX Freestyle

Ski Jump

Skeleton

[Grassmarket 3,393]

You’ll be needed a race walk.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Swimming

Running 

Lifting weight in some way

 

That would seem like a start. If possible, mostly events where you don't need certain equipment simply to do the sport (not counting weights that need to be lifted).

[Somebodyyouknow 87]

Speed 
100m

100m freestyle

Track Sprint

Speed Climbing

 

Endurance

10,000m

Single Sculls

 

Skill 

Table Tennis

BMX freestyle

Diving 10m springboard

 

Accuracy 

50m rifle 3 positions

 

Strength 

Weightlifting

 

Combat
Wrestling freestyle

 

 

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

I'd like to cram as many events as possible. Obviously you can't do team events solo and I would avoid combat sports from a safety perspective. Plus the modern pentathlon and triathlon would by redundant.

 

I'd make it 16 events, one per day where the Ultimate Olympian is crowned at the closing ceremony. 

 

I'll have to think about which ones to include.

[heywoodu 15,135]

44 minutes ago, Somebodyyouknow said:

BMX freestyle

Diving 10m springboard

These things are going to be awful to watch  

 

I mean, look at the pentathlon and how awful the equestrian portion with the tiny jumps is to watch compared to the real thing and they only need 4 other things to focus on. In this case, BMX freestyle would result in them just riding around for a bit and doing like a small jump, and the diving part being like a single straight jump  

[Swewi 381]

Good options! I could think of my question in two perspectives: a) What would be the ultimate alternative to modern penathlon in the olympics or b) Best to get many people in a competiton and for having amateur events. For b, I would like the sports to be easy and accessible for most people to practice, therefore my maybe odd exmples as minigolf in this context instead of real golf or shooting. For that b-perspective I also think curling, ski jump, skeleton and rowing would be difficult. But for the a-perspective I would really appreciate to watch that kind of event in the olympics

 

Combat sports are difficult if we don´t want the whole event being divided in to weight classes only for those disciplines.

[tirtha22 233]

Breaking can be included in the -thlon.

 

 

[FancyFenchel 111]

It's easy:

1. Surfing
2. BMX Race
3. Karate Kata
4. Skateboard Street
5. E-Sport
6. Break

As mixed-team event, of course.

We will call it Urbanathlon.