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Garrett Scantling won the men’s decathlon at the 2021 US Championships in Eugene with 8647 points, leading Steven Bastien (8485) and Zach Ziemek (8471).

The 2021 U20 World Championships in Nairobi saw František Doubek of the Czech Republic win the men’s decathlon with 8169 points, ahead of Belgium’s Jente Hauttekeete and Spain’s José San Pastor.

Garrett Scantling won the men’s decathlon at the 2022 US Championships in Fayetteville with a world-class 8867 points, finishing ahead of Kyle Garland (8720) and Zach Ziemek (8573) in a high-level American decathlon competition.

Raul Duany Bueno won the men’s decathlon at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Seoul with 7403 points, securing the U20 world title ahead of Bernhard Floder and Remco van Veldhuizen.

Benjamin Jensen won the men’s decathlon at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Lisbon with 7676 points, becoming U20 world champion ahead of Klaus Isekenmeier and Glenn Lindqvist.

Eric Kaiser won the decathlon at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv with 7762 points, ahead of Jarkko Finni and David Bigham.

Michael Kohnle won the decathlon at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Sudbury with 7729 points, ahead of Robert Zmelik and Eduard Hämäläinen.

Petri Keskitalo won the decathlon at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athens with 7623 points, ahead of Michael Smith and Nikolai Zayats.

Daley Thompson is a legend! He dominated the decathlon for nearly a decade, winning two Olympic gold medals, two European Championships gold medals and also became decathlon World champion. Between 1980 and 1986, he went undefeated in all …

Guido Kratschmer won an Olympic silver medal at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. German Sportspersonality of the Year 1980.

Romain Barras became Decathlon European Champion in Barcelona 2010. Barras was only the fourth French decathlon champion in European history, following Ignace Heinrich (1950), Christian Plaziat (1990), and Alain Blondel (1994) Post …

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.

Estonian decathlete Mikk Pahapill won heptathlon gold at the 2009 European Indoor Championships with 6362 points. Remarkably, he established personal bests in all seven disciplines, including a 7. 97 m long jump, achieving a unique place in …

Dan O’Brien won the 1996 US Olympic Trials decathlon in Atlanta with 8726 points, defeating Steve Fritz (8636) and Chris Huffins (8546) in one of the strongest American decathlon fields of the era. The Atlanta Olympic Trials served as the U. S. …

Willem Coertzen is a South African decathlete who set the national decathlon record with 8398 points and represented South Africa at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 African Championships and competed in multiple …

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. Daley Thompson’s 8743 points was a Championship record at the time and also stood as a world record.