Karel Tilga set a meeting record of 8482 points, breaking the old Multistars record of 8390 held by Andrei Krauchanka since 2013. Tilga's performance gave him the Olympic qualifying mark ahead of time.
At the 2004 Multistars decathlon in Desenzano del Garda, Jamaica's Claston Bernard secured first place with a score of 8050 points, leading from start to finish.
Multistars 1998 was part of the newly launched IAAF Combined Events Challenge, making Oleksandr Yurkov’s victory with 8034 points especially noteworthy.