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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

Johannes Erm, the Estonian decathlete, is the 2024 European champion with a personal best of 8764 points, the second ‐highest score in Estonian history after Olympic champion Erki Nool. He also placed 6th at the 2024 Paris Olympics, won …

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 …

The inaugural Götzis Hypomeeting in 1975 launches a celebrated combined ‐events tradition, with Czechoslovakia’s Petr Kratky winning the decathlon with 7591 points ahead of Rumen Petrov and Claus Marek. This first edition lays the …

Multistars 1999 was part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, and Oleksandr Yurkov’s victory with 8215 points placed him among the world’s leading decathletes that year and confirmed his consistency after winning the same meeting in 1998.

How a larger and stricter sample changed the formulas without changing the conclusions

We are truly happy that Decathlon 2000 is still getting better and better

If Honolulu's Bryan Clay had all his personal-best marks in the same meet, he would break the world decathlon scoring record.

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.

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.