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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.

This was Daley Thompson’s first Olympic gold. He was only 22 years old and already establishing himself as a rising star in combined events.

Austrian men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7600 points. The current leader of the Austrian men's decathlon all-time list is Gernot Kellermayr, who set the national record with 8320 points at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis in 1993.

Cheered on by 7000 spectators, Great Britain’s Daley Thompson sets a decathlon world record of 8622 points at the 1980 Götzis Hypomeeting, ahead of Guido Kratschmer and Jürgen Hingsen. His record performance is worth 8648 points under the …

Christian Schenk produced a surprise victory in Seoul, winning decathlon gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics with a total of 8488 points.

Daley Thompson successfully defended his Olympic title, having also won the 1980 Moscow Games. The rivalry between Thompson and Jürgen Hingsen was one of the big storylines: both were world record holders in the early 1980s, and their duels …

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Bruce Jenner delivered a spectacular second-day performance to win Olympic gold and set a new world record.

The men's decathlon at the 1978 European Championships in Prague featured many of the world's leading combined events athletes, including future Olympic champion Daley Thompson. Aleksandr Grebenyuk of the Soviet Union won the European title with …

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

The 1988 Decastar meeting in Talence featured a world ‐class decathlon showdown, with France’s Christian Plaziat winning on home soil with 8512 points ahead of Olympic champion Christian Schenk and American star Dave Steen in one of the …

One hour decathlon is a special type of decathlon, in which the athletes have to start the last of ten events (1500m) within sixty minutes after the start of the first event

Top 10 per decathlon event: lists the best 10 performances in each event across all decathlons with a total score of at least 7000 points.

Grigori Degtyaryov repeats his previous year's victory with a new national record of 8579 points (8617)

West Germany’s Guido Kratschmer wins the decathlon at the 1978 Götzis Hypomeeting with 8410 points, ahead of Daley Thompson with 8238 and Josef Zeilbauer with 8104.

Guido Kratschmer wins the decathlon at the 1976 Götzis Hypomeeting with a German record of 8381 points, ahead of Josef Zeilbauer’s Austrian record of 8310, while Yves Leroy finishes third. The two national records are worth 8302 and 8219 …

The inaugural Götzis Hypomeeting in 1975 launches a celebrated combined ‐events tradition, with Czechoslovakia’s Petr Kratky winning the decathlon with 7591 points ahead of Rumen Petrov and Claus Marek. This first edition lays the …