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The women’s pentathlon is an indoor combined events competition in athletics where athletes compete across five disciplines to test speed, strength, technique, endurance, and overall versatility.

Since 1999, Decathlon 2000 has been your faithful companion in the world of decathlon.

IN MEMORIAM - Kurt Bendlin (1943 – 2024)

Rafer Johnson was one of the greatest decathletes in history and an extraordinary figure both on and off the track

A Head-to-Head Analysis of the Fair Decathlon Model

The 2026 Jõgeva International Athletics Pentathlon produced two outstanding national records.

How a larger and stricter sample changed the formulas without changing the conclusions

A leave-one-event-out test of 17,277 complete decathlon performances

A leave-one-event-out test from 7,000 to 4,000 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 …

Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the …

Frank Busemann won Olympic decathlon silver in Atlanta 1996 with a personal best of 8706 points, including an 8. 07 m long jump and 13. 47 in the 110 m hurdles. The German decathlete followed that breakthrough with world bronze in Athens 1997, …