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Christian Schenk was not sure he was the World`s Greatest Athlete after winning the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in Seoul 1988

Daley Thompson is a legend! He dominated the decathlon for nearly a decade, winning two Olympic gold medals, two European Championships gold medals and also became decathlon World champion. Between 1980 and 1986, he went undefeated in all …

Dan O’Brien won an Olympic gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games (1996). He is triple decathlon World champion (1991, 1993, 1995) and a former World Record holder (8891 points scored in Talence 1992).

Dave Johnson won an Olympic bronze medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992

Dean Macey finally won the elusive gold medal at World level at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Previously, he had claimed silver at the 1999 World Championships and a bronze at the 2001 World Championships.

Dezső Szabó won silver medal at the European Championships in Split 1990. After retiring, Dezső Szabó transitioned into coaching and training. He has served as a coach at MTK Budapest, working with athletes including multi ‐event …

Eduard Hämäläinen is the Finnish and also Belarusian decathlon record holder.

Valter Külvet was a highly gifted Estonian decathlete who competed for the Soviet Union during his main international career. He set Estonian senior decathlon records: 8332 points in 1987 and 8506 points in 1988.

Uwe Freimuth's PB 8792 points, achieved in 1984 - making him the East German national record holder at the time

Torsten Voss has won gold medal at the World Championships in Roma 1987. In 1981, he claimed silver at the European U20 Championships, and in 1982 set a junior world record in decathlon with 8397 points.

Tomaš Dvorak is triple Decathlon World Champion (1997, 1999, 2001) and a former World Record holder - 8994 points scored in Prague 1999

Tom Pappas became the Decathlon World Champion in Paris 2003

Steve Fritz missed an Olympic medal by 20 points in Atlanta 1996. He had finished the best competition of his life, scoring 8644 points. That got him 4th place.

Simon Poelman's personal best of 8366 points is still a New Zealand national record. This was set at the national athletics championships in Christchurch 1987

Siegfried Wentz achieved a personal best of 8762 points in Bernhausen (5 June 1983), which at the time made him third on the world all-time list

At the 2000 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Oleksandr Yurkov recorded a career-best 8574 points

Sebastian Chmara is the Polish Decathlon record holder who became World Indoor champion in 1999 and European Indoor champion in 1998

Roman Šebrle became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9000 points, setting the World Record at 9026 points (Götzis 2001), succeeding his compatriot, Tomaš Dvorak, who had scored 8994 points two years earlier (Prague 1999).

Robert Zmelík’s Olympic triumph helped spark a golden era for Czech decathlon. He inspired future stars like world record holders Tomáš Dvořák and Roman Šebrle.