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Ashton and Brianne Eaton interrupting their honeymoon for the Decastar in Talence. Renaud Lavillenie attempting to break the pole vault world record in decathlon.

My hardest event is 1500m... I really hate it because I am heavy and I can't run continually

Before turning to athletics, Carlos Chinin played football and basketball, but after winning medals at a school event in 2002, he began pursuing the decathlon, facing recurring injuries until a serious pole vault accident in 2012 nearly ended …

Pierce LePage in the room for improvement anywhere, now on a global scale, everyone is warned

Germany’s Leo Neugebauer won his first world decathlon title at the 2025 Tokyo Championships with 8804 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 …

Talence’s international combined events meeting began on 4–5 September 1976 with a European decathlon record by Aleksandr Grebenyuk, who won with 8468 points (8386 under the 1985 scoring tables). Fellow Soviet Anatoli Grachov finished second …

Phil McMullen won the 2005 Multistars with 8107 points

Tomaš Dvorak is triple Decathlon World Champion (1997, 1999, 2001) and a former World Record holder - 8994 points scored in Prague 1999

Tom Pappas won world decathlon gold in Paris and world indoor heptathlon gold in Birmingham in 2003, also claiming the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge title that year. The American set his decathlon best of 8784 points in Palo Alto 2003 and …

Dmitri Karpov won Olympic decathlon bronze in Athens 2004 with an Asian record of 8725 points, alongside world bronze medals in Paris 2003 and Osaka 2007. The Kazakh also won two Asian Games titles, the 2006 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge …

Romain Barras won European decathlon gold in Barcelona 2010 with a personal best of 8453 points and claimed that year’s IAAF World Combined Events Challenge title. The French decathlete also won Universiade gold in Daegu 2003 and Mediterranean …