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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…..

The men's decathlon at the 1978 European Championships in Prague featured many of the world's leading combined events athletes, including future Olympic champion Daley Thompson. Aleksandr Grebenyuk of the Soviet Union won the European title with …

The Goodwill Games were a high-profile Cold War era competition bringing together top athletes from East and West, where Dave Johnson won decathlon gold at the 1990 Goodwill Games with 8403 points, ahead of Dan O'Brien.

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

Eduard Hämäläinen, later runner-up in the world championships in Stuttgart, wins the decathlon with a Belarusian record of 8604 points.

Talence 1996 was an extremely tight elite decathlon where Eduard Hämäläinen edged Tomáš Dvořák and Robert Změlík in a deep, high-scoring 8400+ point battle with multiple athletes packed within a razor-thin margin.

Talence 1997 was a fiercely contested elite decathlon where Chris Huffins edged out Tomáš Dvořák, Erki Nool and Roman Šebrle in a world-class battle of 8200–8400 point performances.