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You also feel a sense of injustice when world records from professionals are compared with the world records from participants of the multi 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

In Des Moines, Iowa, Michael Morrison won the NCAA Outdoor decathlon title with 8118 points.

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 …

Jan Felix Knobel won the world U20 decathlon title in Bydgoszcz 2008 with 7896 points and finished eighth at the World Championships in Daegu 2011. His best wind ‐legal decathlon score was 8288 points in Götzis 2011, while his highest total …

Hans van Alphen won and has now a personal best total of 8818 points, showing the best shape of his life

Rico Freimuth followed his father Uwe into international decathlon, winning world bronze in Beijing in 2015 and silver in London in 2017. His personal best of 8663 points came in Ratingen in 2017, a season in which he also secured his second …

The 2012 Ratingen decathlon was won by Germany's Jan Felix Knobel with 8228 points, ahead of Cuba's Yordani Garcia (8005) and Junior Diaz (7735).

Till Steinforth won heptathlon bronze at both the European and World Indoor Championships in 2025, setting a German record of 6388 points in Apeldoorn before scoring 6275 in Nanjing. Outdoors, he won the Ratingen 2024 decathlon with a personal …

Eaton’s 2012 win wasn’t just about points - it re-energized global interest in the decathlon and reminded everyone that the event demands speed, strength, endurance, and mental resilience in equal measure.

Hans van Alphen claimed victory at the combined events meeting in Talence with 8293 points, finishing ahead of Olexiy Kasyanov and Adam Sebastian Helcelet in a strong decathlon field.

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