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Eduard Hämäläinen is a former elite decathlete who competed internationally for both the Soviet Union/Belarus and later Finland, becoming one of the leading combined events athletes of the 1990s. He is best known for winning multiple major …

10th European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki 1971

Alain Blondel won decathlon gold at the 1994 European Athletics Championships with consistent performances across all events.

21st European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki 2012

Finnish men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7600 points. The current leader of the Finnish men's decathlon all-time list is Eduard Hämäläinen, who holds both the Finnish and Belarusian decathlon records.

Finnish men’s heptathlon all-time list up to 5500 points

Jaakko Ojaniemi’s top decathlon score of 8192 points was achieved at the 2002 European Championships in München. His international medal collection is almost entirely from junior and U23 competitions.

17th edition of the biennial European U20 Athletics Championships

The 14th European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Espoo, Finland (2023)

The 9th European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Tampere, Finland (2013)

The 1st European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Turku, Finland (1997)

Markus Rooth of Norway clinched the decathlon gold at the 2023 European U23 Championships in Espoo

The men’s decathlon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was a landmark competition ‐ it was the first ‐ever IAAF World Championships, so this was the first decathlon world title ever awarded. This championship continued the …