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Niklas Kaul won the men's decathlon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich with 8545 points, securing Germany's second consecutive European decathlon title. Switzerland's Simon Ehammer claimed silver with a national record of 8468 …

East Germany claimed the men’s team title at the 1989 European Cup Combined Events A Final in Tønsberg, Norway, finishing 388 points ahead of West Germany with 24081. France’s Christian Plaziat won the individual decathlon with 8290 points, …

Vitali Kolpakov claimed the decathlon title at the 1991 European Junior Championships in Thessaloniki with 7813 points. Tomaš Dvorak finished 65 points behind to take silver with 7748, while Finland’s Jarkko Finni earned bronze with 7479.

Mikhail Romanyuk edged Torsten Voss by just six points to win the decathlon at the 1981 European Junior Championships in Utrecht. His championship record of 7918 points secured gold, while Estonia’s Sven Reintak took bronze representing the …

Siegfried Wentz won the decathlon at the 1979 European Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz with a championship record of 7822 points. Dietmar Jentsch and Peter Hummel completed the podium for East Germany, while Norway’s Gudmund Olsen finished …

Eckart Müller claimed the decathlon title at the 1975 European Junior Championships in Athens with a championship record of 7706 points. Georg Werthner took silver for Austria, while Anatoli Novikov won bronze ahead of Estonia’s Tõnu Kaukis, …

Johannes Erm won Estonia’s first European decathlon title in 26 years with 8764 points

During this season, Estonian decathlon record holder Erki Nool lost two decathlon-related records to his countrymen

IN MEMORIAM - Kurt Bendlin (1943 – 2024)

The 2026 Jõgeva International Athletics Pentathlon produced two outstanding national records.

The 1938 European Athletics Championships decathlon in Colombes, near Paris, saw Sweden’s Karl Olof Bexell claim the European title with a championship record of 7214 points under the original scoring system (6687 by the 1985 tables). …

The 1934 European Championships in Turin marked a historic milestone in athletics, as the decathlon made its debut at the European Championships. Germany’s Hans ‐Heinrich Sievert claimed the inaugural title with an impressive 8103. 245 …

Francisco Javier Benet set a Spanish decathlon record of 8526 points in Alhama de Murcia 1998. A three ‐time Olympian, he also achieved an indoor heptathlon best of 6044 points in Valencia 1998 and twice finished second individually in the …

Antonio Penalver won Olympic decathlon silver with 8412 points in Barcelona 1992 and European indoor heptathlon bronze in Genova the same year. His 8534 ‐point wind ‐assisted performance in Alhama de Murcia 1992 also produced an …