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Trey Hardee won an Olympic silver medal at the London Olympic Games 2012 and he is double Decathlon World Champion (2009, 2011). Winner of the 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

Kip Janvrin is the ultimate decathlete. What a remarkably enduring, high ‐quality career! Janvrin won the 1989 U. S. Olympic Festival, the 1995 Pan Am Games, the 2001 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and a record 15 decathlons at …

Aleksei Sysoyev is a Russian decathlete born in 1985 who rose quickly through the junior ranks, winning silver medals at the European and World Junior Championships. His decathlon personal best is 8497 points, achieved at the Hypomeeting in …

Germany’s Leo Neugebauer captured the decathlon gold in Tokyo with a score of 8804 points, just 20 points ahead of Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens

7000 spectators cheer Daley Thompson's magnificent improvement of the decathlon world record to 8622 points (8648)

Mykola Avilov won an Olympic gold medal at the München Olympic Games 1972

Erki Nool became a national hero in Estonia. His Olympic victory is remembered as one of the most dramatic in modern decathlon history

Dan O'Brien clinched his third consecutive World Championship decathlon title

This victory marked Dan O’Brien’s first world championship title - his international breakthrough and a pivotal launchpad for his historic multi-year dominance in decathlon

The men’s decathlon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was a landmark competition ‐ it was the first ‐ever IAAF World Championships, so this was the first decathlon world title ever awarded. This championship continued the …

Almost 40 years ago in Los Angeles (during XXIII Olympiade) only five points appeared to be the difference between Gold and Silver medalists at women’s Heptathlon…..

Where Legends Begin: The Story of the Decathlon

The World’s best jumper Sander Aae Skotheim broke the European heptathlon record

For the first time, athletes from the FRG and the former GDR compete as a joint team

Robert Zmelik from Czechoslovakia wins with 8627 points and surpasses the previous national record