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With his 8406 points in 2009 World Championships Nicklas Wiberg surpassed Henrik Dagard's 15 years old national record by 3 points. Until age 17 had middle distance running as his priority. With strength in the Javelin and the 1500m surprised …

24 days after 1st World Champs in Helsinki completed, in Bulgarian Capital Sofia took part 6th European Cup Final of combined events

Decathletes, who compete across throwing, jumping, and running events with strong results, deserve full recognition as real athletes alongside specialists like shot putters and long ‐distance runners. It highlights the demanding nature of …

I was a mediocre 1500 runner most of my Decathlon career until the last couple years

This project presents comprehensive all ‐time rankings of track and field athletes, evaluating their careers using criteria inspired by Track & Field News world rankings ‐ honors, records, consistency, and head ‐to ‐head …

This short essay broadly touches on a few of the many areas a coach needs to develop in order to become a master in the Art of Coaching

Before turning to athletics, Carlos Chinin played football and basketball, but after winning medals at a school event in 2002, he began pursuing the decathlon, facing recurring injuries until a serious pole vault accident in 2012 nearly ended …

Complete men (in French : Des hommes complets), a book by Frédéric Gousset (2014)

Between 1980 and 1981, Bulgarian female athletes like Daniela Nenova, Emilia Kunova, and Valentina Dimitrova made rapid progress in pentathlon and heptathlon, setting national records and achieving personal bests in multiple competitions, …

Recommended books by various authors like Joel P Smith, Harry Marra, John Rap, Bert Vreeswijk, Frédéric Gousset, Mike Chapman, Framk Zarnowski and Dale Harder

Since 1999, Decathlon 2000 has been the priority internet source for comprehensive information of combined events