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Patrick Eseimokumoh won the men’s decathlon at the 1987 European Athletics Junior Championships in Birmingham with 7614 points, finishing ahead of Roman Frolov and Barry Walsh.

Thomas Fahner won the men’s decathlon at the 1985 European Athletics Junior Championships in Cottbus with 7815 points, finishing ahead of Igor Drobyshevskiy (7633) and Andre Preysing (7476).

Just six points separated gold and silver in the men’s decathlon at the 1981 European Athletics U20 Championships in Utrecht. Mikhail Romanyuk of the Soviet Union secured the European junior title with 7918 points, narrowly defeating East …

Bydgoszcz hosted the men’s decathlon at the 1979 European Athletics U20 Championships, where West Germany’s Siegfried Wentz emerged as European junior champion with 7818 points. East Germany secured both remaining podium places through Dietmar …

The 1977 European Athletics U20 Championships in Donetsk offered an early glimpse of two athletes who would later become major figures in world decathlon. Great Britain’s Daley Thompson captured the European junior decathlon title with 7646 …

The men’s decathlon at the 1975 European Athletics U20 Championships in Athens brought together some of Europe’s best young combined events athletes. West Germany’s Eckart Müller won the European junior title with 7706 points, ahead of …

The men’s decathlon at the 1973 European Athletics U20 Championships in Duisburg brought together Europe’s leading junior combined events athletes. Vladimir Buryakov of the Soviet Union won the European U20 title with 7551 points, ahead of …

The men’s decathlon at the 1970 European Athletics Junior Championships featured some of Europe’s most promising young combined events athletes. Aleksandr Blinyayev of the Soviet Union won the title with 7632 points, ahead of West Germany’s …

26th European Athletics Championships were held in Roma 2024

USA until 02 February 2020 – eligible to represent Australia in National Representative Competitions (see World Athletics Eligibility to Represent a Member Rule 1.4.2) from 31 July 2020

At the 2024 World U20 Championships in Lima, Tomas Järvinen won the men’s decathlon with a championship-record 8425 points, ahead of Hubert Trościanka and Florian Vriezen.

Sander Skotheim breaks the European heptathlon record for the second time

New European record - 6484 points by Sander Aae Skotheim

At the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, Norway’s Sander Skotheim won the men's heptathlon with 6475 points, narrowly beating Estonia’s Johannes Erm.

Sander Aae Skotheim won the first Indoor World title in Nanjing

Andrin Huber won the men’s decathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen with a personal best of 8188 points, leading a high-quality competition that saw four athletes surpass the 8000-point barrier.

Rafer Johnson was one of the greatest decathletes in history and an extraordinary figure both on and off the track

Trościanka's performance included a world U20 decathlon best of 46,21 seconds in the 400 meters and a championship best of 68.87 meters in the javelin throw.

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