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Thorpe Cup
The
Thorpe
Cup
is an
annual
international
decathlon
and
heptathlon
meeting
between
the United
States
and
Germany
.
First held in
1993
in
Aachen
, the
2009
and
2010
events
were
staged
at the
Georg-Gaßmann-Stadion
in
Marburg
. The meeting is named after the
famous
Olympian
Jim Thorpe
.
Tom Pappas
holds
the meeting
record
with 8569
points
scored
at the 2009
event
.