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Damian Warner is the Canadian decathlon record holder. He was the 4th decathlete ever to break the 9000 ‐point barrier. He won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, setting an Olympic record of 9018 points. Damian Warner won the 2019 IAAF …

Kevin Mayer set a decathlon world record of 9126 points in Talence 2018. The French athlete won world titles in London 2017 and Eugene 2022, alongside Olympic silver medals in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021.

Gunnar Nixon won the world U20 decathlon title in Barcelona 2012 and the US indoor heptathlon title with 6232 points in 2013. The American set his decathlon personal best of 8312 points at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.

Kai Kazmirek earned world decathlon bronze in London in 2017, a year after scoring a personal best of 8580 points to finish fourth at the Rio Olympics. The German decathlete also won the 2013 European U23 title and the 2015 Götzis Hypomeeting, …

Willem Coertzen set an African decathlon record of 8398 points when finishing third at the Götzis Hypomeeting in 2015. The South African also won the Talence Décastar that year and earned African Championships silver in 2008 and bronze in 2016.

Adam Sebastian Helcelet embodied the Czech decathlon tradition ‐ emerging under the influence of legends like Dvorák and Šebrle, earning continental medals, and landing firmly among the nation’s top performers. His legacy now continues …

Ingmar Vos represented the Netherlands in the decathlon at the London 2012 Olympics and set his personal best of 8224 points in Götzis that year. He also finished fifth in the heptathlon at the Paris 2011 European Indoor Championships and won …

Before turning to athletics, Carlos Chinin played football and basketball, but after winning medals at a school event in 2002, he began pursuing the decathlon, facing recurring injuries until a serious pole vault accident in 2012 nearly ended …

Complete men (in French : Des hommes complets), a book by Frédéric Gousset (2014)

Ilya Shkurenyov won European indoor heptathlon gold in Prague 2015 and European decathlon silver in Berlin 2018. The Russian also won the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge and set his decathlon personal best of 8601 points in Smolensk 2017.