Search results: Decathlon World Champion

With individual event victories in the pole vault and javelin, France’s Kevin Mayer won his second World Athletics Championships decathlon gold medal.

Coached by Gennadiy Morozov, Aleksei Drozdov benefited from moving to Bryansk to train, transitioning from local sprinter interest to elite multi-event athlete following encouragement from family and early exposure to combined events training.

If Honolulu's Bryan Clay had all his personal-best marks in the same meet, he would break the world decathlon scoring record.

13th European Athletics Championships were held in Athens 1982

How many ways can we say, “ Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic is the world’s greatest performer ever in the century ‐old tradition of the decathlon? I can think of at least five: Šebrle’s uniqueness, longevity, consistency, …

In the United States the development and training of decathletes is heavily influenced by the university system, primarily the NCAA