DECATHLON RESEARCH

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.


I have 3 goals in mind with this project

1) To show objectively (again!) why decathletes are the best athletes in the world

2) To gather info to help Dale Harder create/adjust his scoring tables to fairly compare these marks to other athletic marks

3) To look for any correlations between these PBs and Decathlon performances



Any marks/info that you can provide would be great! I have already gathered some good info from several good sources. Any sources/contact info would be appreciated as well.



Thanks for your help!


Clay Parker