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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 …
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Dan O'Brien successfully defended his world decathlon title at the 1993 World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on 19–20 August. The American scored 8817 points, setting a new championship record and finishing 93 points ahead of …
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Christian Plaziat claimed the decathlon gold medal at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, setting a new French national record of 8574 points. Hungary’s Dezső Szabó secured silver with a national record of 8436 …
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Athens 1982 brought European decathlon gold and a new world record for Daley Thompson. The British Olympic champion scored 8743 points. Jürgen Hingsen took silver with 8517 points, while Siegfried Stark earned bronze with 8433.
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Finnish decathletes claimed gold and silver at the 1999 European Junior Championships in Riga. Aki Heikkinen won with a Finnish U20 record of 7881 points, followed by Jaakko Ojaniemi with 7763, while Austria’s Roland Schwarzl took bronze with 7447.
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The 1998 European Cup Combined Events Super League in Tallinn, Estonia, produced a memorable home victory for Erki Nool, who topped the men's decathlon standings with 8628 points. Czech rising star Roman Šebrle finished just 39 points behind …
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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 …
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France’s Kevin Mayer claimed his second World Athletics Championships decathlon gold medal at Eugene 2022, scoring 8816 points after individual event victories in the pole vault (5. 40 m) and javelin (70. 31 m). The world record holder added …
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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
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The traditions of Bulgarian decathlon stars during XX century were longlive and deserved some respect and good memories...
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The historic facts & figures surrounding Bulgarian female “all ‐round” athletes are more heroic, rememberable and important that those of Bulgarian men. They left significant trace into European and world track & field annals and can be …
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With a brilliant, well ‐balanced performance across all ten events, Ashton Eaton claimed the decathlon gold medal at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow with 8809 points. Germany's Michael Schrader secured silver with a …
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Damian Warner, the decathlete who surprised the World by coming from nowhere to finish 5th at the London Olympics (2012).
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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 …
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Australian men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7700 points. Ashley Moloney becoming the first Australian decathlete ever to medal at the Olympics, while breaking the Oceanian and Australian records.
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