Eugene Martineau was a two-time Olympic decathlete from the Netherlands, a national champion, and a consistent world-class performer with a career best over 8200 points.
Andres Raja represented Estonia in the decathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing 12th with 8118 points, but he went just one point higher to set his personal best of 8119 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. He was a four
Yordani Garcia claimed numerous regional titles and competed in three Olympic Games. In all three of his Olympic appearances (2008, 2012, 2016), he finished just shy of the 8000 ‐point mark. That’s unusually consistent ‐ and a
Michael Schrader won the silver medal at the World Championships in Moscow 2013, becoming the first German decathlete to make it to the podium at the World Championships since Frank Busemann took the bronze medal in Athens 1997.
Bulgarian decathlon had glory days, glory persons. But good traditions were lost somewhere in the past. Who knows – maybe some day a new prodigy will be born to revive the well forgotten.
Ashton Eaton was the 2nd decathlete to break the 9000 ‐point barrier. He is a former decathlon World Record holder (9045 points scored in Beijing 2015) and heptathlon World Record holder (6645 points scored in Istanbul 2012). He won an
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