Between 1980 and 1981, Bulgarian female athletes like Daniela Nenova, Emilia Kunova, and Valentina Dimitrova made rapid progress in pentathlon and heptathlon, setting national records and achieving personal bests in multiple competitions,
Karl Robert Saluri set his decathlon best of 8137 points in Eugene 2018. His breakthrough came in April 2016, when he improved by over 600 points to score 8108, surpassing the Olympic qualifying standard and earning European Athlete of the Month
Rafał Snoch examines the five Day Two events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how technical failures, specialist strengths, exceptional performances and contrasting athlete populations shape the residuals behind the scoring model.
Explore the progression of men’s decathlon world ‐best performances by event, showing how the highest standards in each individual discipline have developed over time. This unique archive traces the evolution of the best performances
Explore the progression of world ‐best performances in the men’s indoor heptathlon, showing how standards in each individual event have improved over time. The archive tracks the development of the best performances across the complete
Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the
A decathlon is not ten separate events. It is one competition, unfolding over two days, with one clock running from the first start to the final finish. Part 10 of the Fair Decathlon Model asks what happens when we look at the decathlon this way
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