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An absolute age record means that no one older has achieved a better result for ages above the world-record-age, and no one younger has achieved a better result for ages below the world-record-age.

It all started with the idee that athletes do their best performance of their life at a certain age, depending the sport they are practicing. In athletics we focus (as decathlon fans) on the ten events of the decathlon.

When do athletes perform at their highest level? Let us first have a look at the world record holders for the individual events:

Usain Bolt

23y 0 m

9.58

5 Age records

Mike Powell

27y 9 m

8.95

1

Ryan Crouser

28y 6 m

23.37

2

Javier Sotomayor

25y 9 m

2.45

11

Wayde van Nieckerk

24y 1 m

43.03

1

 

 

 

 

Aries Merrit

27y 1 m

12.80

1

Jürgen Schult

26y 1 m

74.08

1

Armand Duplantis

23y 3 m

6.22 i

11

Jan Zelezny

29y 11 m

98.48

7

Hicham El Guerrouj

23y 10 m

3.26.00

4

 

 

 

 

Kevin Mayer

26y 7 m

9126

1

A note about this table. This results does not show a kind of “proof” of what is the best age to expect your absolute top in your life. It gives an idee but Mondo Duplantis for example already jumped 3.97 with the pole vault when he was only 12 years old and his 6.22 is certainly not his last. It seems he’s planning for a real collection. Wayde van Nieckerk is recovering from Corona. An athlete can also decide not to compete anymore at an earlier age or to do less intense. Nevertheless decathletes seem mostly to be in the best shape of their life between their 26 and 28. The exception proofs the rule (look at Damian). The fourth column mentions the total of this athletes their age records. Somewhere at an earlier age, others are from later. Now we go to the decathletes with a list between 15 and 44 years old. Notice the definition given in the opening sentence.

Absolute age world record list:

Name

Years

Months-Days

Score

Qi Haifeng

15

9 – 2

6900

Qi Haifeng

15

9 – 30

7119

Qi Haifeng

16

1 – 10

7437

Cao Wen

16

7 – 7

7479

Valter Külvet

17

4 – 7

7926

Valter Külvet

17

6 – 4

8104

Yordani Garcia

18

8 – 3

8113

Yordani Garcia

18

9 – 11

8257

Torsten Voss

19

3 - 13

8397

Daley Thompson

20

0 – 8

W8470

Yordani Garcia

20

6 – 9

8496

Leonel Suarez

20

11 – 21

8527

Torsten Voss

21

1 – 12

8543

Andrei Krauchanka

21

4 – 23

8617

Ashley Moloney

21

4 – 23

8649

Frank Busemann

21

5 – 5

8706

Kyle Garland

21

11 – 9

8720

Uwe Freimuth

22

10 – 11

8792

Ashton Eaton

24

5 – 2

9039

Kevin Mayer

26

7 - 6

9126

Ashton Eaton

27

7 – 8

9045

Damian Warner

31

10 – 1

9018

Damian Warner

32

7 - 25

8797

Roman Šebrle

32

9 – 6

8676

Tom Pappas

32

11 – 3

8569

Guido Kratschmer

33

4 – 15

8519

Lev Lobodin

33

5 - 21

8356

Roman Šebrle

34

6 – 5

8348

Roman Šebrle

34

8 – 25

8266

Kip Janvrin

35

11 – 14

8241

Roman Šebrle

36

8 – 3

8109

Roman Šebrle

37

6 – 15

8097

Kip Janvrin

37

11 – 14

7918

Kip Janvrin

38

11 – 12

7730

Kip Janvrin

39

9 – 20

7671

Kip Janvrin

40

1 - 16

7520

Kip Janvrin

44

9 - 18

6807

Corrections are welcome!

Comments (2)

Tamás Bényei wrote on June 02, 2023
Attila Zsivoczky-Pandel (b. 29 April 1977) - 7109 points at 42 years, 3 months and 5 days in 2019
(11.70 - 625 - 14.43 - 202 - 52.54 - 16.01 - 43.93 - 420 - 58.76 - 4:51.38)
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Janek Salmistu wrote on June 02, 2023
Thank you, Tamás!
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