Attila Zsivoczky is the Hungarian decathlon record holder

Ayden Owens is the Puerto Rican national record holder in decathlon as well as in heptathlon

Bruce Jenner won an Olympic gold medal at the Montreal Olympic Games (1976).

Diverted off the troubled path of his childhood, Bryan Clay went on to become one of the most decorated decathletes of all time. He won an Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008) and became decathlon World champion in Helsinki 2005.

Bulgarian decathlon had glory days, glory persons. But good traditions were lost somewhere in the past. Who knows – maybe some day a new prodigy will be born to revive the well forgotten.

Carlos Eduardo Chinin is the Brazilian decathlon record holder