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Belgian men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7200 points

Belgian men’s heptathlon all-time list up to 5600 points

Ladji Doucoure won the men’s decathlon at the 2001 European U20 Championships in Grosseto with 7747 points, leading Lars Albert and Atis Vaisjuns in a closely contested junior combined-events competition.

At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Roman Šebrle captured the decathlon title with 8676 points, completing his long pursuit after two World Championships silver medals with a long-awaited gold medal.

Roman Šebrle won the 2005 Talence Decastar with 8326 points, finishing ahead of Aleksandr Pogorelov and Estonia’s Kristjan Rahnu in a high-quality decathlon competition.

28th European Athletics Indoor Championships

19th European Athletics Championships were held in Göteborg 2006

At the 2006 Talence Decathlon Meeting, Kazakhstan’s Dmitri Karpov claimed victory with 8438 points ahead of Aleksei Drozdov and Roman Šebrle.