National championships

Siegfried Wentz won the men’s decathlon at the 1983 West German Championships in Munich with 8470 points, equivalent to 8491 under the 1985 scoring tables. Thomas Rizzi finished second with 8056 points and Holger Schmidt took bronze with 7834.

Seventeen ‐year ‐old Valter Külvet won the men’s decathlon at the 1981 Estonian Championships in Viimsi on 22–23 August with 8221 points, equivalent to 8104 under the 1985 scoring tables. Tiit Pohl took silver with 7772 points and …

Valter Külvet won the men’s decathlon at the 1987 Soviet Union Championships in Tallinn on 18–19 July, scoring an Estonian record of 8332 points at Kadriorg Stadium. Aleksandr Nevski finished just 28 points behind with 8304, while Mikhail …

Oleksandr Apaichev won the men’s decathlon at the 1988 Soviet Union Championships in Kyiv with 8424 points. Igor Maryin took silver with 8364, just 34 points ahead of bronze medallist Mikhail Medved. Five athletes surpassed 8000 points.

Grigori Degtyaryov won the 1986 Soviet Union men’s decathlon title with 8322 points in Moscow. Oleksandr Apaichev took silver with 8244 and Valter Külvet earned bronze with 8168. Held alongside the Goodwill Games, the national championship …

Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon at the 2012 US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon

Päärn Brauer captured the men’s decathlon title at the 2004 Estonian Championships in Rakvere. His 7420 ‐point performance featured a 15. 21 m shot put, 44. 79 m discus throw and 4. 70 m pole vault. Andres Raja took silver with 7095 …

Bryan Clay dominated the US Championships decathlon in Eugene in 2008, winning the national title with an outstanding 8832 points ahead of Trey Hardee and Tom Pappas.

Dan O’Brien won the 1996 US Olympic Trials decathlon in Atlanta with 8726 points, defeating Steve Fritz (8636) and Chris Huffins (8546) in one of the strongest American decathlon fields of the era. The Atlanta Olympic Trials served as the U. S. …

Robert Jacob Arnold won the 2010 US Championships decathlon in Des Moines with 8215 points, edging Tom Pappas by 114 points to claim the national title.