Are Pentathlon and Decathlon the Same?

is that decathlon is an athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days while pentathlon is an ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus.

Is there anything more than decathlon?

Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon. ... Other longer combined events do exist, such as the icosathlon (double decathlon) for men and the tetradecathlon for women.

What is the difference between pentathlon and modern pentathlon?

The event is inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the ancient Olympics; as the original events were patterned on the skills needed by an ideal Greek soldier of the era, the modern pentathlon is similarly patterned on events representing the skills needed by cavalry behind enemy lines.