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East Germany – Soviet Union decathlon match Dresden 1987 combined an international team contest with the East German national combined events championships at the Heinz ‐Steyer ‐Stadion. Torsten Voss won with 8429 points ahead of …

Soviet Union – East Germany decathlon match Kyiv 1981 saw Yuri Kutsenko win with 8302 points, equivalent to 8281 under the 1985 scoring tables. Uwe Freimuth finished second with 8213, ahead of Grigori Degtyaryov with 8124. East Germany won the …

The Soviet Union won the decathlon match against West Germany in Lage on 6–7 September 1980, scoring 31735 points to the hosts’ 31605. West Germany’s Guido Kratschmer topped the individual standings with 8185 points, ahead of Yuri Kutsenko …

Edgars Erinš set a new Latvian record while he improved 8312 points. Latvian previous record belonged to Janis Karlivans with 8271 points (Götzis 2007).

Stories From the Passenger Seat: Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Coaching by Harry Marra

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

Oleksandr Apaichev achieved a personal best of 8709 points during a decathlon match between the Soviet Union and East Germany in Neubrandenburg in 1984. This score remains the Ukrainian national record. After retiring from competitive athletics, …

Christian Plaziat won European decathlon gold in Split 1990 with a French record of 8574 points. He also claimed two European indoor heptathlon titles, setting a world record of 6418 in Genova 1992, before winning the world indoor title in …

Daley Thompson is a legend! He dominated the decathlon for nearly a decade, winning two Olympic gold medals, two European Championships gold medals and also became decathlon World champion. Between 1980 and 1986, he went undefeated in all …

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 …

Valter Külvet was a highly gifted Estonian decathlete who competed for the Soviet Union during his main international career. He set Estonian senior decathlon records: 8332 points in 1987 and 8506 points in 1988.

Tom Pappas won world decathlon gold in Paris and world indoor heptathlon gold in Birmingham in 2003, also claiming the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge title that year. The American set his decathlon best of 8784 points in Palo Alto 2003 and …

Sebastian Chmara is the Polish Decathlon record holder who became World Indoor champion in 1999 and European Indoor champion in 1998. He cemented his legacy in Polish athletics with a stunning 8566 ‐point decathlon in 1998, securing his …

Roman Šebrle became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9000 points, setting the World Record at 9026 points (Götzis 2001), succeeding his compatriot, Tomaš Dvorak, who had scored 8994 points two years earlier (Prague 1999).