2009 Season's Best - Men - Combined Event

This is the first year of combined event, let's see what happened in the season.

Competitions:

World Cup 1 - Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico - March 2009 - WC1
World Cup 2 - Cairo, Egypt - April 2009 - WC2
World Cup 3 - Budapest, Hungary - May 2009 - WC3
World Cup 4 - Roma, Italy - May 2009 - WC4
World Cup Final - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - WCF
Senior World Championships - London, Great Britain - August 2009 - SWC

Top 3 by event (combined event - only finals):

WC1 - Sandoval (MEX) 2624 (11:24.47), Hernandez (MEX) 2612 (11:27.71), Soto (MEX) 2592 (11:32.10)
WC2 - Sandoval (MEX) 2856 (10:26), Polívka (CZE) 2812 (10:37), Benedetti (ITA) 2752 (10:52)
WC3 - Cherkovskis (LAT) 2656 (11:16.46), Jung-Sub Kim (KOR) 2620 (11:25.58), Mitsyk (BLR) 2584 (11:34.58)
WC4 - Benedetti (ITA) 2824 (10:34), Patte (FRA) 2764 (10:49), Daniel (AUT) 2736 (10:56)
WCF - Soto (MEX) 2680 (11:10), De Lucca (ITA) 2660 (11:15), Tibolya (HUN) 2628 (11:23)
SWC - Frolov (RUS) 2840 (10:30.82), Daniel (AUT) 2836 (10:31.88), Svoboda (CZE) 2832 (10:32.53)

Others top scores (under 10:50)
SWC - Ovcharov (RUS) 2784 (10:44.54), Brady (USA) 2768 (10:48.21), Kinderis (LTU) 2768 (10:48.79), Marosi (HUN) 2764 (10:49.07)

Season Best - Top 10 - Combined Event
1 - Sandoval (MEX) 2856 (10:26) - WC2 Cairo
2 - Frolov (RUS) 2840 (10:30.82) - SWC London
3 - Daniel (AUT) 2836 (10:31.88) - SWC London
4 - Svoboda (CZE) 2832 (10:32.53) - SWC London
5 - Benedetti (ITA) 2824 (10:34) - WC4 Roma
6 - Polívka (CZE) 2812 (10:37) - WC2 Cairo
7 - Ovcharov (RUS) 2784 (10:44.54) - SWC London
8 - Brady (USA) 2768 (10:48.21) and Kinderis (LTU) 2768 (10:48.79) - SWC London
10 - Marosi (HUN) 2764 (10:49.07) - SWC London and Patte (FRA) 2764 (10:49) - WC4 Roma

Sandoval had the best performance in the combined event (considering the events listed above). His countryman Soto and also Daniel and Benedetti are others pentathletes that are doing great in the combined event, which was introduced this year. Frolov, Svoboda, Polívka and Marosi could rely on their performance in combined event to boost or manage their positions to win important points for the rankings.