title: Thorpe Cup
text: # 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.
  
  