Search results: 8478

The 2025 Decastar meeting in Talence once again attracted a strong international decathlon field, with athletes using the prestigious competition to test their form against world ‐class opposition. Ayden Owens of Puerto Rico emerged …

Eduard Hämäläinen is a former elite decathlete who competed internationally for both the Soviet Union/Belarus and later Finland, becoming one of the leading combined events athletes of the 1990s. He is best known for winning multiple major …

Steve Fritz missed an Olympic medal by 20 points in Atlanta 1996. He had finished the best competition of his life, scoring 8644 points. That got him 4th place.

Stefan Schmid, born in 1970 in Würzburg, was a leading German decathlete during the 1990s and early 2000s. He reached a personal best of 8485 points in 2000, the same year he placed ninth at the Sydney Olympics. His career was not without …

Dmitri Karpov won an Olympic bronze medal at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. He is the Kazakhstan decathlon record holder. Winner of the 2006 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

The men’s decathlon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was a landmark competition ‐ it was the first ‐ever IAAF World Championships, so this was the first decathlon world title ever awarded. This championship continued the …

A complete history of Talence Decastar showcases all-time decathlon records and champions, celebrating the event’s greatest performances and winners through the years.

Talence 1996 was an extremely tight elite decathlon where Eduard Hämäläinen edged Tomáš Dvořák and Robert Změlík in a deep, high-scoring 8400+ point battle with multiple athletes packed within a razor-thin margin.

Explore the men’s decathlon all-time list featuring the greatest performances and athletes in the history of the event.

The total points from a decathlete’s 10 best decathlons is a key statistic, highlighting athletes with 82000+ points across their top 10 performances.

Eelco Sintnicolaas won gold medal with a new personal best and national record score of 6372 at the World Indoor Championhips in Göteborg 2013

Spanish men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7600 points. Francisco Javier Benet leads the Spanish men’s decathlon all-time list with a national record of 8526 points, achieved in Alhama de Murcia in May 1998.

Ayden Owens is the Puerto Rican national record holder in decathlon as well as in heptathlon

22nd European Athletics Championships were held in Zurich 2014

Kai Kazmirek claimed victory in the 2013 European U23 Championships. His personal best is 8580 points in the decathlon, set at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. Overall winner of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge in 2016 and 2021.

Rico Freimuth of Germany won the 2017 Ratingen decathlon with 8663 points, ahead of Grenada's Kurt Felix (8509) and fellow German Kai Kazmirek (8478).