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Alhama de Murcia 1997 hosted the Spanish national combined events championships with international participation. Francisco Javier Benet won the decathlon and the Spanish title with 8322 points, ahead of Robert Zmelik with 8239 and Antonio …

The 2006 Multistars brought an international field of decathletes to Desenzano del Garda for another edition of the prestigious Italian combined events meeting. Chris Boyles of the United States topped the final standings with 7855 points, …

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.

All ‐time men’s indoor heptathlon individual event lists, featuring the best performances and rankings from competitions scoring above 5000 points. The archive covers individual marks in all seven heptathlon events and aims to include …

All ‐time men’s heptathlon 1st and 2nd day scores rankings, featuring the best 100 performances and 100 performers from complete indoor heptathlon competitions. The rankings include both first ‐day and second ‐day scores and …

All ‐time men’s indoor heptathlon ranking by event category, featuring total score rankings for running, jumping and throwing events. The archive covers nearly 40 years of indoor heptathlon competitions and includes complete results, …

A Head-to-Head Analysis of the Fair Decathlon Model

The FDM Model inspired me a little bit, so I thought: let's make it available to everyone, so everyone can experiment with it. - Pascal Magyar

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

The Principles Behind Decathlon Scoring Tables: What Should a Scoring System Actually Measure?

A leave-one-event-out test of 17,277 complete decathlon performances

A leave-one-event-out test from 7,000 to 4,000 points

This article asks whether the decathlon’s own performance data can provide enough information to calibrate a fair scoring system without relying primarily on elite athletes. Using 27, 741 complete decathlons—and a separate dataset excluding all …

Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the …

After completing the zero ‐point audit in Part 8, the Fair Decathlon Model now turns to a deeper question: what should a decathlon scoring table actually measure? Part 9 explores why performances cannot be separated from the two ‐day …

A decathlon is not ten separate events. It is one competition, unfolding over two days, with one clock running from the first start to the final finish. Part 10 of the Fair Decathlon Model asks what happens when we look at the decathlon this way …

The 2026 World Athletics Combined Events Tour brought together leading decathletes from across the world, with Simon Ehammer finishing at the top of the final standings. The rankings are based on each athlete’s three counting performances across …

The 2026 Talence Decastar brought together a strong field of decathletes for the 50th anniversary edition of the iconic combined events meeting in Talence, France. Sander Skotheim won the decathlon with 8630 points, ahead of Hakim McMorris and …