The historic facts & figures surrounding Bulgarian female “all ‐round” athletes are more heroic, rememberable and important that those of Bulgarian men. They left significant trace into European and world track & field annals and can be
With a brilliant, well-balanced performance across the competition, Ashton Eaton took decathlon gold at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, scoring 8809 points.
Andrei Krauchanka's personal best score is 8617 points, achieved in May 2007 in Götzis. He won an Olympic silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008). He won gold medal at the European Championships in Zurich 2014 and also at European
Paweł Wiesiołek earned bronze in the heptathlon at the 2021 European Indoor Championships in Toruń. Later that year, he lit up Warsaw with the performance of his career ‐ smashing a personal best of 8333 points to claim the Polish
Trey Hardee claimed the men’s decathlon title at the 2017 US Championships in Sacramento with 8225 points, edging Zach Ziemek (8155) and Devon Williams (8131) in a closely contested American championship.
Leonel Suárez won the Talence Decastar decathlon with a world-class 8328 points, leading a remarkably deep field featuring eight athletes over 8000 points and confirming Talence’s status as one of the premier combined-events meetings in the world.
The 2006 Ratingen decathlon was won by Kazakhstan’s Dmitri Karpov with 8414 points, as he edged Jamaica’s Maurice Smith (8349) and Germany’s Dennis Leyckes (8310) in a highly competitive international decathlon featuring multiple athletes