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Mykola Avilov won Olympic gold and set a world record at the Olympic Games München 1972.

Dan O’Brien won the 1996 US Olympic Trials decathlon in Atlanta with 8726 points, defeating Steve Fritz (8636) and Chris Huffins (8546) in one of the strongest American decathlon fields of the era. The Atlanta Olympic Trials served as the U. S. …

Tom Pappas won the 2000 US Championships decathlon in Sacramento with 8467 points, finishing ahead of Chris Huffins (8285) and Kip Janvrin (8057) in a high ‐level American field. The Sacramento competition also served as the 2000 US Olympic …

Ashton Eaton successfully defended his Olympic Champion title from London 2012, scoring 8893 points, which tied the existing Olympic record.

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

A Legacy Larger Than Sport

The traditions of Bulgarian decathlon stars during XX century were longlive and deserved some respect and good memories...

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 …

Between 1980 and 1981, Bulgarian female athletes like Daniela Nenova, Emilia Kunova, and Valentina Dimitrova made rapid progress in pentathlon and heptathlon, setting national records and achieving personal bests in multiple competitions, …

If Honolulu's Bryan Clay had all his personal-best marks in the same meet, he would break the world decathlon scoring record.