Search results: Decathlon total score

Decathletes, who compete across throwing, jumping, and running events with strong results, deserve full recognition as real athletes alongside specialists like shot putters and long ‐distance runners. It highlights the demanding nature of …

Pieter Braun clinched the gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Tallinn (2015), Estonia, with a personal best score of 8195 points. His absolute personal best in the decathlon is 8342 points, achieved at the prestigious Hypo …

Hans van Alphen won and has now a personal best total of 8818 points, showing the best shape of his life

The piece explores a hypothetical decathlon record based on an athlete’s best performances over an entire season - rather than in the traditional two-day format.

Ilya Shkurenyov won European Indoor gold in 2015, earned multiple European Championships medals, placed 4th twice at World Championships. Winner of the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

Jeremy Taiwo’s career-best came at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene when he scored 8425 points, finishing second only to Ashton Eaton and qualifying for Rio Olympics

Kurt Felix was NCAA Division I decathlon champion in 2012, and at that time he set a Grenadian national record in the decathlon. His best decathlon score is 8509 points, achieved at Ratingen, Germany in 2017. He captured medals at the 2014 …

Fredrik Samuelsson won silver in the decathlon at the 2017 European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz with a score of 8010 points

Johannes Erm, the Estonian decathlete, is the 2024 European champion with a personal best of 8764 points, the second ‐highest score in Estonian history after Olympic champion Erki Nool. He also placed 6th at the 2024 Paris Olympics, won …

After injury setbacks, Jorge Ureña made a triumphant return in June 2023 at Ratingen, Germany, posting a new PB of 8381 points ‐ lifting him to the third ‐best Spanish decathlon score ever. At the 2019 European Indoor Championships …

Garrett Scantling achieved a personal best of 8867 points at the 2022 USATF Combined Events Championships. He banned for three years for doping offences. Scantling’s three ‐year period of ineligibility started on June 27 2022, the date he …

In 2011, Mathias Brugger earned silver in decathlon at the European U20 Championships in Tallinn with 7853 points. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Mathias Brugger scored 6126 points, earning bronze.

Interview with Colombian decathlon record holder José Gregorio Lemos (7913p, Barranquilla 2018)

Leo Neugebauer has broken the 39 ‐years old German decathlon record. He scored 8836 points at the NCAA Division Championships in Austin, Texas (2023). Year later he won second consecutive men’s decathlon title at the NCAA in Eugene, …

In February 2025, Sander Skotheim scored 6484 points to break the European heptathlon record, scoring 6484. In March 2025, he won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and broke his own European …