At the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, Norway’s Sander Skotheim won the men's heptathlon with 6475 points, narrowly beating Estonia’s Johannes Erm.

6th IAAF World Indoor Championships

Ashton Eaton dominated the 2016 World Indoor Championships heptathlon in Portland, winning the title with a 6470 points, well clear of Olexiy Kasyanov (6182) and Mathias Brugger (6126).

15th IAAF World Indoor Championships

4th IAAF World Indoor Championships

With a breathtaking 6670 points, Simon Ehammer shatters Ashton Eaton’s long-standing indoor heptathlon mark from Istanbul 2012, etching his name into history.

12th IAAF World Indoor Championships

Since 1922, 38 decathlon world records have been set - 8 at the Olympics, with the last in 1984—but score comparisons over time are difficult due to multiple changes in the points tables.

The World University Games (formerly known as the Universiade) historical archive highlights all-time decathlon records and champions, celebrating top university athletes and their performances throughout history.

Originally scheduled to be held on 15–27 August 2021 and 25 June – 7 July 2022, but was postponed twice due to the COVID ‐19 pandemic. With the eventual cancellation of the 2023 Games in Yekaterinburg due to the 2022 Russian invasion of …

Yang Chuan-kwang was the first and, so far, only decathlon world record holder from outside Europe and the United States

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 …

Yuma Maruyama is a Japanese decathlete, Asian champion and Japanese record holder. He set the Japanese decathlon record of 8321 points at the 2026 Mt. SAC Relays and has won multiple Asian titles in the combined events, as well as medals at the …

Zach Ziemek is an American decathlete and three-time Olympian, highlighted by a bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships.