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At the 2009 Multistars decathlon in Desenzano del Garda, American decathlete Rober Jacob Arnold secured victory with a score of 7994 points.

At the 2008 Multistars decathlon in Desenzano del Garda, Belgian athlete Frédéric Xhonneux achieved a personal best and set a national record with a score of 8142 points, solidifying his status as one of Belgium's top decathletes.

Multistars 1999 was part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, and Oleksandr Yurkov’s victory with 8215 points not only placed him among the world’s top decathletes that year but also confirmed his consistency after winning the same meet …

Hakim McMorris is an American decathlete with a personal best of 8420 points, achieved in Walnut in 2026, and a heptathlon best of 6255 points. His profile includes complete decathlon and heptathlon results, personal bests and career statistics.

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

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

Explore the complete history of decathlon and combined events. Get 60% off Decathlon 2000 Premium and access results, rankings, statistics and athlete profiles until 30 September 2026.

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day One events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how individual specialists, weak-event survivors and population patterns shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

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 …

Bruce Jenner won an Olympic gold medal at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976

Dan O’Brien won an Olympic gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games (1996). He is triple decathlon World champion (1991, 1993, 1995) and a former World Record holder (8891 points scored in Talence 1992).