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One of the most exciting and unpredicted event of athletic program of XX Olympic Games in Munich 1972 was the women’s Pentathlon. The people of the host country – West Germany – were keen to see the second victory of their local hero …

The 1978 Götzis Hypo ‐Meeting decathlon brought together a strong international field, led by Guido Kratschmer, Daley Thompson and Josef Zeilbauer, with complete event ‐by ‐event results preserved in this historical archive. …

Thriling contest with surprise winner

The 1977 European Athletics U20 Championships in Donetsk offered an early glimpse of two athletes who would later become major figures in world decathlon. Great Britain’s Daley Thompson captured the European junior decathlon title with 7646 …

Robert Zmelik dominated the 1996 Multistars decathlon in Desenzano del Garda with 8232 points, while a young Roman Šebrle finished fifth — an early chapter in the career of the future first man to break the 9000-point barrier.

Robert Zmelik won the 1992 Multistars decathlon in Brescia with 8086 points, an early highlight of a remarkable season that would culminate in Olympic gold in Barcelona just a few months later.

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 …

Daley Thompson successfully defended his Olympic title, having also won the 1980 Moscow Games. The rivalry between Thompson and Jürgen Hingsen was one of the big storylines: both were world record holders in the early 1980s, and their duels …

All ‐time men’s indoor heptathlon ranking by event category, featuring total score rankings for running, jumping and throwing events. The archive covers nearly 40 years of indoor heptathlon competitions and includes complete results, …

A lesson in just one aspect of how sport science can and needs to be applied to all athletic skill teaching