Agustin Felix, Aleksei Drozdov, Nicklas Wiberg (0)

Coached by Gennadiy Morozov, Aleksei Drozdov benefited from moving to Bryansk to train, transitioning from local sprinter interest to elite multi-event athlete following encouragement from family and early exposure to combined events training.

Nicklas Wiberg won European U20 decathlon gold in Tampere 2003. He later finished sixth at the Berlin 2009 World Championships with 8406 points, breaking Henrik Dagård’s longstanding Swedish record by three points.

19th European Athletics Championships were held in Göteborg 2006

Nicklas Wiberg won the men’s decathlon at the 2003 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, taking the European junior title with 7604 points ahead of Aleksei Sysoyev and Steffen Willwacher.

A Russian one ‐two highlighted the men’s decathlon at the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships in Erfurt. Aleksei Drozdov claimed the European U23 title with an impressive 8196 points, with compatriot Aleksei Sysoyev taking silver …

Bryan Clay becomes the first American decathlete to win Götzis, scoring 8677 points in 2006 ahead of Dmitri Karpov and Maurice Smith.

Russian men’s heptathlon all-time list up to 5800 points