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I have always felt this way. What do you all think? http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-scoring-for-the-decathlon-and-heptathlon-favors-running-over-throwing

Here are their books: http: //www. amazon.com/CLEARING ‐HURDLES ‐OBriens ‐Greatest [...] ‐4 http: //www. amazon.com/Redemption ‐Rebellious ‐Praying ‐Unlikely [...] ‐1 Both look very interesting. Dr. Z's site lists books on other decathletes: http: //decathlonusa. typepad.com/deca/orderbooks. html There are quite a few out there on …

This list is adjusted for the old javelin throws according to conversions in Dale Harder's book Sports Comparisons http: //www. strengthospeedia. org/ 1 Roman � ebrle CZE 9026 10, 64 ‐ 8. 11 ‐ 15. 33 ‐ 2. 12 ‐ 47, 79 ‐ 13, 92 ‐ 47. 92 ‐ 4. 80 ‐ 70. 16 ‐ 4. 21, 98 Götzis 2001 2 Tomaš Dvorak CZE 8994 10, 54 ‐ 7. 90 …

I am posting the Deca list for the past 2 years to start the discussion on who will win in Daegu. I think results for the past 12 ‐15 months are a good barometer to start with. 2010 ‐2011 DECATHLON LIST 1. 8729 Ashton Eaton 6/11 2. 8689 Trey Hardee 5/11 3. 8483 Bryan Clay 5/10 4. 8453 Romain Barras 7/10 5. 8440 Leonel Suarez 5/11 6. 8436 Eelco Sinticolaas 7/10 7. 8398 …

I thought it would be interesting to list decathletes that used PED's. Here's a page from book that mentions Toomey and Hodge both did. http: //books. google. [...] toomey [...] [...] toomey steroids&f=false Anyone else had more to add?

... havent reached several of them. If you have contact info for any of them, can you contact me? parkerclay@hotmail.com Thanks, Clay

I thought it would be fun to list famous athletes (besides decathletes) that competed in the decathlon in high school. Here are a couple to start off with. If you have know some, please list (include score if you have it!) TAMPA BAY WR MARK BRADLEY http: //www. angelfire. [...] html Note: triple jump replaced javelin in Arkansas WALLACE SPEARMON http: //www. arkansastrackstats.com/Track . . …

I am working on gathering testing results, training bests, etc on many of the top decathletes. I'm more interested in personal bests than in training regimes (although I did find that interesting as well). For example, events like standing long jump, vertical jump, triple leg bound, overhead shot toss, bench press, clean, snatch, squat, 30 meter sprints, 60 meter sprints, etc. …

Best Performances by Height (as best as I could find) Rick Wanamaker US 2. 06m/6'9 7989 1971 Aleksandr Pogorelov Rus 2. 01m/6'7 8528 2009 Jurgen Hingsen Ger 2. 00m/6'6 3/4 8832 1984 Dan O'Brien US 1. 89m/6'2 1/2 8892 1991 Roman Sebrle Cze 1. 87m/6'1 1/2 9026 WR 2001 Tomas Dvorak Cze 1. 86m/6'1 8894 1999 Daley Thompson GB 1. 85m/6'1 8847 1984 Bryan Clay US 1. …

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Here's an idea that I think I got from the late great Alphonse Juilland. (Note Dale Harder has done a lot of breakdowns by weight in his books, also). Breaking down athletes by weight class. I decided to use the US Powerlifting Federation's weight classes of 114, 123, 132, 148, 165, 181, 198, 220, 242, 275, 308 and superheavyweight. I think they do the best job of sorting them by …

Anyone have any of these marks (standing long jump, 30 meter sprint, vertical jump or overhead throw) for any of the great decathletes? I'd be interested in other marks - bench press, squat, clean, etc. as well

I havent seen a list or an opinion on here. Anyone wanna list theirs??

I believe I have them. Email me and I will send them to you if interested. parkerclay@hotmail.com

Wasn't Mannheim 1984 his best deca? I adjusted his best here.

I do think that O'Brien would have run a faster 1500 in Talence had he needed to exceed Daley's score

John, great column! Do you have contact info? Clay

I have bought every edition ever printed. It is an excellent book - I recommend it all serious sports fans.

Thanks - I'm gonna start a new post about spearmon, etc.

cool - Do you have Spearmon's marks?

Phil, Is the 8171 score for Jenner's 76 performance? I was thinking the score for career bests was someone different. Can you list the top ones out? Btw, have you updated Sebrle's career bests - I think he's improved a couple of performances since '01

Did more research and it appears both Faber and Komar were in the 230-235 lb range when they competed in the deca! Still can't find any deca results from Oldfield. Supposedly he did one in 1971 but no results yet!

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I thought it might be easier to start to break them down into 3 categories: Pre WWII (Thorpe, Hoff, Sheridan, Kiely, etc) WWII - 1979 (Mathias, Rafer, Campbell, Avilov, Kuznetsov, Jenner, Toomey, etc) 1980- Present (Thompson, Hingsen, O'Brien, Sebrle, Clay, Dvorak, etc)

http://web.me.com/boylinator/DecaTom.Com/Stats.html This site says Pappas has the world record in the quadrathlon at 369. Does anyone have any better marks?

I failed to mention that was Jake Arnold above. Anyone else have some marks to share? Good post, BJ!

Well only a week after the USA Championships I decided to take part in the University of Arizona NFL Pro Day. I took part in the 40meter dash (4. 54secs), vertical jump (36inches), broad jump (10’ 9), 3 cone drill (7. 22secs), 20 meter shuffle (4. 50secs), and ran routes as a wide receiver. The cone drills and shuffle gave me a little trouble. Overall I felt I did really good and …