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The first man over 9000 points in history - with an anniversary
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The Spain – Great Britain decathlon match Alhama de Murcia 1991 saw Antonio Penalver win with a Spanish record of 8306 points, ahead of Francisco Javier Benet and Mark Andrew Bishop. Two ‐time Olympic champion Daley Thompson retired after …
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Germany’s Leo Neugebauer won his first world decathlon title at the 2025 Tokyo Championships with 8804 points.
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The 2026 Jõgeva International Athletics Pentathlon produced two outstanding national records.
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Aleksandr Grebenyuk won the European decathlon title in Prague in 1978 and the European Cup individual title in Villeneuve d’Ascq in 1977. Representing the Soviet Union, he scored a personal best of 8400 points in Riga to lead the 1977 world …
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The 1980 Soviet Union Decathlon Championships in Moscow produced a close battle for the title, with Yuri II Kutsenko winning on 8329 points ahead of Valeri Kachanov (8306) and Sergei Zhelanov (8282). Held on 20–21 June as a selection competition …
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Talence’s international combined events meeting began on 4–5 September 1976 with a European decathlon record by Aleksandr Grebenyuk, who won with 8468 points (8386 under the 1985 scoring tables). Fellow Soviet Anatoli Grachov finished second …
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The 2010 European Athletics Championships were held at the Estaldi Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Jente Hauttekeete won European U20 decathlon gold in Tallinn 2021 and world U20 silver in Nairobi that same year. The Belgian set a world U20 heptathlon record of 6062 points in Frankfurt 2021, achieved his senior decathlon best of 8268 in Talence …
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Larbi Bourrada set an African decathlon record of 8521 points when finishing fifth at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Algerian also placed fifth at the Beijing 2015 World Championships and won five African decathlon titles between 2008 and 2022.
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Alain Blondel is a former French decathlete best known for winning the gold medal at the 1994 European Championships and for representing France at the Olympic level during his international athletics career.
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Frank Busemann won Olympic decathlon silver in Atlanta 1996 with a personal best of 8706 points, including an 8. 07 m long jump and 13. 47 in the 110 m hurdles. The German decathlete followed that breakthrough with world bronze in Athens 1997, …
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