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The multi event athlete must possess or attain the following characteristics in order to be successful

Here are some helpful guidelines for you to consider when you start training your decathletes in the pole vault

The purpose of this paper is to examine the purpose of training smarter and aim to produce more points by working smart

How many ways can we say, “ Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic is the world’s greatest performer ever in the century ‐old tradition of the decathlon? I can think of at least five: Šebrle’s uniqueness, longevity, consistency, …

Coach and the athlete must be very careful on how they distribute the volume and intensity in their training cycles

Only 12 of the 29 starters finished the entire decathlon event

Andres Raja represented Estonia in the decathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing 12th with 8118 points, but he went just one point higher to set his personal best of 8119 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. He was a four …

Yordani Garcia claimed numerous regional titles and competed in three Olympic Games. In all three of his Olympic appearances (2008, 2012, 2016), he finished just shy of the 8000 ‐point mark. That’s unusually consistent ‐ and a …

In the United States the development and training of decathletes is heavily influenced by the university system, primarily the NCAA