In February 2025, Sander Skotheim scored 6484 points to break the European heptathlon record, scoring 6484. In March 2025, he won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and broke his own European
Harrison Williams won the US decathlon title in 2023 with a personal best of 8630 points. The American also claimed the 2019 NCAA indoor heptathlon title and finished seventh at the Budapest 2023 World Championships and Paris 2024 Olympics.
Markus Rooth won Olympic decathlon gold in Paris 2024 with a Norwegian record of 8796 points. His rise through the age groups included European U20 bronze in 2019, European U23 bronze in 2021 and the European U23 title in Espoo 2023 with 8608 points.
Robert Zmelik won the 1992 Multistars decathlon in Brescia with 8086 points, an early highlight of a remarkable season that would culminate in Olympic gold in Barcelona just a few months later.
Robert Zmelik claimed an impressive victory at the 1991 Multistars decathlon in Brescia, scoring 8297 points. Just one year later, the Czech decathlete reached the pinnacle of his career by winning Olympic gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Dave Steen became Canada’s first Olympic decathlon medallist with bronze in Seoul 1988. He also won Universiade and Pan American Games gold in 1983 and two Commonwealth Games silver medals. The first Canadian to break 8000 points, Steen
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.
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,
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
Ashley Moloney won Olympic decathlon bronze in Tokyo 2021 with an Australian record of 8649 points. The Tampere 2018 world U20 champion also claimed world indoor heptathlon bronze with 6344 points in Belgrade 2022.
Dmitri Karpov won Olympic decathlon bronze in Athens 2004 with an Asian record of 8725 points, alongside world bronze medals in Paris 2003 and Osaka 2007. The Kazakh also won two Asian Games titles, the 2006 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge
Kip Janvrin is the ultimate decathlete. What a remarkably enduring, high ‐quality career! Janvrin won the 1989 U. S. Olympic Festival, the 1995 Pan Am Games, the 2001 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and a record 15 decathlons at
Hans van Alphen won Götzis 2012 with a Belgian decathlon record of 8519 points and finished fourth at the London Olympics. The Bangkok 2007 Universiade silver medallist also won the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge in 2012, securing
One of the most consistent and prominent female multi-event athletes of the 20th century, East German Burglinde Pollak left a well-recognized legacy in the history of women’s athletics
Andrei Krauchanka won Olympic decathlon silver in Beijing 2008 and the European title in Zurich 2014. The Belarusian set his decathlon personal best of 8617 points in Götzis 2007 and earned two World Indoor heptathlon silver medals, setting a
Decathlon 2000 always used to be a huge inspiration and now I’m glad to be a part of the team here! It gives me an opportunity to discuss and write about the decathlon and to meet people with the same interests - Jessica Bullenkamp