How to Use

Performance → Score:

• Select your gender and event
• Enter your performance (e.g., 10.5 for 10.5s in 100m, 7.50m for long jump, 90.5 for 1:30.5 in 1500m)
• View your World Athletics points and equivalent performances across all events

Score → Performance:

• Select your gender and event
• Enter a World Athletics score (e.g., 1200 to find the 100m time worth 1200 points)
• View the equivalent performance and other events with the same score

Share & History: Click the share button on a result to copy a shareable link. Click any row in the history table to re-run that calculation.

About World Athletics Scoring Tables

This calculator uses the official World Athletics Scoring Tables (formerly IAAF scoring tables) to calculate points for track and field performances.

• The Scoring Tables include all standard track and Short Track (formerly indoor) events. Short Track equivalent events are labelled as such to differentiate them from their outdoor counterparts.
• Track events are typically measured in metres (m) and to the hundredth of a second. Road events are typically measured in kilometres (km) and to the second. The 1 Mile event is the outlier and has the same scoring table for Track and Road.
• All scoring tables are for the Open age group, which includes the Open aged event specifications (implement weight, hurdle height, or steeple height). Using the Scoring Tables for performances using a different specification can lead to inaccurate results.
• Hand-timed performances can be used for Score conversion, however additional time is added for:
  • Sprint and Hurdle events up to and including 200m: add 0.24 seconds
  • 300m, 400m and 400m Hurdles: add 0.14 seconds

How the scoring formula works

The World Athletics scoring tables are generated from three simple formulas — one for track events, one for jumps, and one for throws. Each has the same shape, Points = a × (performance − b)c, with per-event constants chosen so that roughly equivalent performances produce roughly equal scores across disciplines.

• Track events use Points = a × (b − Time)c, because faster times should score higher.
• Jumps use Points = a × (Distance − b)c, where the threshold b represents a nominal zero-point performance.
• Throws use the same shape as jumps, calibrated for each implement weight.

World Athletics republishes the tables periodically (this calculator uses the 2025 edition). Results are rounded down to the nearest whole point, which matches how they are reported for combined events at World Championships and the Olympics.

Example calculations

A few reference points to sanity-check results. All values come from the official Men's Open tables.

• 100 m — 10.00s → 1206 points
• 100 m — 11.00s → 886 points
• 400 m — 45.00s → 1180 points
• 1500 m — 3:30.01 → 1245 points
• Marathon — 2:04:59 → 1223 points
• Long Jump — 8.00 m → 1138 points
• High Jump — 2.30 m → 1179 points
• Shot Put — 20.00 m → 1121 points

Around 1000 points is an international-level performance. 1200+ points represents world-class territory and is where the top of the all-time lists sit. The calculator also returns equivalent performances — given your score, what you would need to run, jump, or throw in every other event to match it.

Glossary

• Open / age group: the calculator uses Open-age event specifications (standard implement weight, hurdle height, and steeple barrier height). Using Open tables for U18 or U20 performances will under-score them.
• Short Track (indoor): events contested on a banked 200 m oval, with their own tables.
• Hand timing: manual stopwatch timing, which consistently reads faster than fully automatic timing. Tick the Hand Timed checkbox and the calculator adds the official offset before looking up the score.
• Mixed events: currently limited to mixed-gender relays.

Related Calculators

Totalling up a multi-event competition? Use the Combined Event Score Calculator for decathlon, heptathlon, and pentathlon. Planning training paces? Try the Pace & Speed Calculator.