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Johannes Erm - NCAA champion and European U23 silver medallist

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 …

East Germany, led by Ramona Neubert and Sybille Thiele, were favorites in Sofia, while Bulgaria and the USSR provided strong competition despite key absences.

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day Two events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how technical failures, specialist strengths, exceptional performances and contrasting athlete populations shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

During this season, Estonian decathlon record holder Erki Nool lost two decathlon-related records to his countrymen

The 2024 Decastar meeting in Talence delivered one of the strongest decathlon competitions of the season, highlighted by an impressive victory from Estonia’s Johannes Erm. Erm scored 8589 points to defeat Norway’s Sander Aae Skotheim (8517) …

Johannes Erm has just finished the most successful season of his career

Johannes Erm has just finished the most successful season of his career

The first man over 9000 points in history - with an anniversary

In 1988, Külvet surpassed his best decathlon with a score of 8506 points in Staiki, Belarus. This achievement placed him second in the world that season, just behind Christian Plaziat of France.

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.

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

The publication of the first article in the Fair Decathlon Model (FDM) series has already sparked an interesting discussion within the combined events community.

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

As a supplement to the Fair Decathlon Model (FDM) series, we are publishing the complete event scoring table covering the full range from 100 to 1200 points.

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