Search results: 2016 World Indoor Championships

Ashton Eaton dominated the 2016 World Indoor Championships heptathlon in Portland, winning the title with a 6470 points, well clear of Olexiy Kasyanov (6182) and Mathias Brugger (6126).

World Indoor Championships’ complete history reveals all-time records, winners, and medal tables, highlighting the most outstanding achievements and leading nations throughout the event’s legacy

Estonian decathlete Mikk Pahapill won heptathlon gold at the 2009 European Indoor Championships with 6362 points. Remarkably, he established personal bests in all seven disciplines, including a 7. 97 m long jump, achieving a unique place in …

Larbi Bourrada set an African decathlon record of 8521 points when finishing fifth at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Algerian also placed fifth at the Beijing 2015 World Championships and won five African decathlon titles between 2008 and 2022.

Christian Plaziat was key in elevating French decathlon to world ‐class status and held the national record until the rise of Kevin Mayer. Despite his Olympic setbacks, his charisma, consistency, and indoor indoor dominance made him a …

Romain Barras became Decathlon European Champion in Barcelona 2010. Barras was only the fourth French decathlon champion in European history, following Ignace Heinrich (1950), Christian Plaziat (1990), and Alain Blondel (1994) Post …

Eelco Sintnicolaas won gold medal with a new personal best and national record score of 6372 at the World Indoor Championhips in Göteborg 2013

Arthur Abele won European decathlon gold on home soil in Berlin in 2018 and finished the season as the overall Combined Events Challenge winner. The German decathlete set his personal best of 8605 points in Ratingen in 2016 and earned European …

Leonel Suarez won an Olympic bronze medal twice: at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008) and at the London Olympic Games (2012). He holds Cuban national record for the decathlon with 8654 points. Winner of the 2011 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

Olexiy Kasyanov won World Championships decathlon bronze with a personal best of 8479 points in Berlin 2009. The Ukrainian also claimed European decathlon silver and two world indoor heptathlon silver medals.

Yordani Garcia claimed numerous regional titles and competed in three Olympic Games. In all three of his Olympic appearances (2008, 2012, 2016), he finished just shy of the 8000 ‐point mark. That’s unusually consistent ‐ and a …

Ashton Eaton was the 2nd decathlete to break the 9000 ‐point barrier. He is a former decathlon World Record holder (9045 points scored in Beijing 2015) and heptathlon World Record holder (6645 points scored in Istanbul 2012). He won an …

Thomas van der Plaetsen won gold medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam 2016. With 6259 points, he equals the Belgian heptathlon record set by Jente Hauttekeete.

Mihail Dudaš is a Serbian former decathlete who competed at the international level throughout the 2010s, representing Serbia at World and European Championships as well as the Olympic Games.

Pieter Braun clinched the gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Tallinn (2015), Estonia, with a personal best score of 8195 points. His absolute personal best in the decathlon is 8342 points, achieved at the prestigious Hypo …

Jan Felix Knobel won the world U20 decathlon title in Bydgoszcz 2008 with 7896 points and finished eighth at the World Championships in Daegu 2011. His best wind ‐legal decathlon score was 8288 points in Götzis 2011, while his highest total …