Search results: Götzis 1980

National decathlon records highlight the best performances ever achieved by athletes from each country, reflecting the global depth and diversity of the discipline.

Men’s decathlon season's best score by year

Explore the men’s decathlon world record progression from Aleksander Kolmpere’s pioneering performance in 1922 to Kevin Mayer’s 9126 points in 2018. Grouped by historical scoring table, this archive presents all ten event marks alongside …

Top 10 per decathlon event: lists the best 10 performances in each event across all decathlons with a total score of at least 7000 points.

Eugene Martineau was a two-time Olympic decathlete from the Netherlands, a national champion, and a consistent world-class performer with a career best over 8200 points.

Shot 7.26 kg; hurdles 107 cm; discus 2.0 kg; javelin 800 g

List of current World Record in each event compared to the best decathlon record in each event

Rainer Pottel won the European Cup decathlon in Birmingham 1981 with 8334 points, the world’s leading score that season. The East German also took European Cup silver in 1977 and later became Germany’s national decathlon coach.

Aleksandr Nevski represented the Soviet Union at two World Championships, finishing sixth in Helsinki 1983 and eighth in Rome 1987. He achieved his decathlon best of 8491 points at Götzis 1984 and set a heptathlon world best of 6144 points in …

Josef “Sepp” Zeilbauer won three consecutive Universiade decathlon titles in 1975, 1977 and 1979, and the Götzis Hypomeeting in 1977 and 1981. The Austrian competed at three Olympics, finishing fifth in Moscow 1980, and set a national …

Yuri Kutsenko won Olympic decathlon silver for the Soviet Union in Moscow 1980 and claimed the Soviet decathlon title that same year. He achieved his highest score of 8519 points in Kyiv 1984, calculated using the 1985 scoring tables and competing …