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Leonel Suarez and his 2008 world records (8)

As a well informed decathlete fan you probably know that the world record for the first event in this multi event belongs to Chris Huffins. He has the best time ever in the 100 metres and therefore the best points score. Its also easy to find who has the best score after five.

As a lesser informed, lets say an average informed fan of athletics you surely know that the best points score after ten events belongs to Roman Šebrle, because he simply is the world record holder in decathlon.

But who has the best score ever after7,8 or 9 events? Or the question is who is the world record holder for 9 events in a decathlon? Here is a complete list from 1 to 10 events:

After 100 LJ SP HJ 400 110H DT PV JT 1500
10 9026 Roman Šebrle
9 8296 8994 Tomaš Dvorak
8 7499 8844 Dan O’Brien
7 6579 8694 Chris Huffins
6 5735 8715 Dan O’Brien
5 4747 8844 Dan O’Brien
4 3838 8707 Dan O’Brien
3 2967 8891 Dan O’Brien
2 2090 8844 Dan O’Brien
1 1042 8546 Chris Huffins

Of course we want to know the reverse list to. Because of the nature of a decathlon contest such a list is even more interesting. Namely to know what sort of “surpassing – manoeuvre” an athlete still can do at the end of the competition.

We all know the reverse score of Dave Jonhson for the last five events (or his phenomenal second day world record) of 4455 points. Its here that Leonel Suarez finds a place on the world record list. The previous WR for the last two events (with the new javelin*) was from Dave Johnson – he threw the javelin 74m58 and made a time of 4 min 27.17 for the 1500 metres equal to 1722 points. Suarez did respectively 70m64 and 4 min 16.70 in Götzis what gave him 899+834=1733 points.

List with the reverse points total starting with events still to come:

Event to go 100 LJ SP HJ 400 110H DT PV JT 1500
10 9026 Roman Šebrle
9 9026 8084 Roman Šebrle
8 9026 6995 Roman Šebrle
7 9026 6185 Roman Šebrle
6 9026 5270 Roman Šebrle
5 8649 4455 Dave Johnson
4 8649 3527 Dave Johnson
3 8524 2707 Sebastien Levicq
2 8366 1733 Leonel Suarez
1 7583 963 Robert Baker

*) With the old javelin Georg Werthner did a WR of 1832 points (or resp. 76m96/4min16.41). Surprisingly Werthner did the worst score ever after 8 events (6196) for a performance over 8000 (in 1984 he finished ninth in the Olympics with 8028 p).

In Ratingen Suarez did another world record: an absolute age world record. It means that no one younger did better for scores under the world record of Roman Šebrle. Like his compatriot Yordani Garcia last year he broke an absolute age world record with his score of 8451 in Germany last weekend.

Absolute age world record list:

Name Score Years Months Days
Cao Wen 7479 16 7 7
Valter Külvet 7926 17 4 7
Valter Külvet 8104 17 6 4
Yordani Garcia 8113 18 8 3
Yordani Garcia 8257 18 9 11
Torsten Voss 8397 19 3 13
Leonel Suarez 8451* 20 9 21
Torsten Voss 8543 21 1 12
Andrei Krauchanka 8617 21 4 23
Frank Busemann 8706 21 5 5
Uwe Freimuth 8792 22 10 11
Bryan Clay 8820 24 7 21
Dan O’Brien 8844w 24 10 26
Daley Thompson 8847 26 0 10
Dan O’Brien 8891 26 1 18
Roman Šebrle 9026 26 6 1

*) Daley Thompson made a decathlon score of 8470 in 1978 at the age of 20 y 0 m 8 d but it was wind aided. He jumped 8m11 assisted by a wind of +6.3m/sec. Anyway, congratulations to Leonel Suarez.

Comments (8)

Richard Hunter wrote on June 27, 2008
some great stats to chew over!
well done Chris
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Dick Moss wrote on June 28, 2008
I think Chris Huffins ran the 100m in 10,22 at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials in Atlanta. The top chart shows 10,42
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Phil Mennell wrote on June 28, 2008

Fascinating! I love this stuff. How would the chart look with PB's? Not very relevant I must admit, but Siggy Wentz may be the best in the reverse order?

Thanks
Phil
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Janek wrote on June 28, 2008
To Dick: 1042 not a time result, its points (1042).

To Chris: Nicklas Wibergs results from Götzis 2007 - 74.41 and 4.25,21 in the last two events, which also adds up to 1733 points like Suarez.
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Manfred Geier wrote on June 29, 2008
Thak you for this nice analysis!
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NikDeca wrote on June 30, 2008
Nice stats my friend
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JOAQUIN wrote on Mar 23, 2010
* LEONAL SUAREZ RESULTS FROM LA HABANA 04.07.2009 - 77.47 AND 4.27.29 IN THE LAST TWO EVENTS.TOTAL 1766 POINTS.
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Illimar Pilk wrote on Sep 01, 2011
Nice stats
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