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William Toomey secured Olympic decathlon gold in Mexico City at the 1968 Summer Olympics, prevailing after a gripping battle with Hans-Joachim Walde and Kurt Bendlin.

Willi Holdorf secured Olympic decathlon gold in Tokyo at the 1964 Summer Olympics following one of the most thrilling battles of the competition against Rein Aun.

The men’s decathlon at the 2002 IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston was won by Leonid Andreyev (Uzbekistan) with 7693 points, narrowly ahead of Nadir El Fassi (France) with 7677 and Mikko Halvari (Finland) with 7587.

Tom Pappas delivered a standout performance to win decathlon gold at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, finishing with 8750 points.

At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Roman Šebrle captured the decathlon title with 8676 points, completing his long pursuit after two World Championships silver medals with a long-awaited gold medal.

Roman Šebrle added Olympic glory to his world record status at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning gold with a new Olympic record of 8893 points.

Andrei Krauchanka won the men’s decathlon at the 2004 IAAF World Junior Championships in Grosseto with a championship-leading 8126 points, ahead of Aleksei Sysoyev (8047) and Norman Müller (7942).

Bryan Clay secured the world decathlon title in Helsinki at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with a total of 8732 points.

Almost 40 years ago in Los Angeles (during XXIII Olympiade) only five points appeared to be the difference between Gold and Silver medalists at women’s Heptathlon…..

Soviet Union swept the men’s decathlon podium at the inaugural Goodwill Games in Moscow. Grigori Degtyaryov won with 8322 points, ahead of Oleksandr Apaichev with 8244 and Aleksei Lyakh with 8082.

Goodwill Games brought together top athletes from East and West during the Cold War era. At the 1990 edition in Seattle, Dave Johnson won men’s decathlon gold with 8403 points, ahead of Dan O'Brien with 8358 and Mikhail Medved with 8330.

Dan O'Brien led an American podium sweep in the men’s decathlon at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg. He won with 8715 points, finishing 538 points ahead of Steve Fritz with 8177. Kip Janvrin took bronze with 7908.

Dan O'Brien retained his men’s decathlon title at the 1998 Goodwill Games in Uniondale, New York, scoring 8755 points. Chris Huffins took silver with 8576 and Tomaš Dvorak earned bronze with 8428. Erki Nool finished fourth with 8386, as all …

Tomaš Dvorak won the men’s decathlon at the final Goodwill Games in Brisbane on 6–7 September 2001 with 8514 points. Erki Nool claimed silver with 8420, highlighted by a 5.40 m pole vault, while Tom Pappas earned bronze with 8323.

East Germany’s Uwe Freimuth wins the decathlon at the 1988 Götzis Hypomeeting with 8381 points, just 19 ahead of Canada’s Dave Steen and fellow East German Thomas Fahner.