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Michael Smith won two Commonwealth decathlon titles and World Championships silver in Tokyo 1991 and bronze in Göteborg 1995. The Canadian set his decathlon best of 8626 points in Götzis 1996 and earned World Indoor heptathlon silver with 6279 …

Dan O'Brien clinched his third consecutive World Championship decathlon title

Canada’s Michael Smith successfully defended his Commonwealth Games decathlon title on home soil in Victoria in 1994, scoring 8326 points. Australia’s Peter Winter took silver with 8074, while England’s Simon Shirley secured bronze with …

Christian Plaziat won the decathlon on home soil at the 1989 combined events meeting in Talence.

The 1991 Götzis Decathlon saw Canada’s Michael Smith claim victory with 8427 points, finishing ahead of Czechoslovakia’s Robert Změlík and Ukraine’s Mikhail Medved. For the first time, athletes from West Germany and East Germany competed …

Robert Zmelik of Czechoslovakia won the 1992 Götzis decathlon with a national record of 8627 points.

Eduard Hämäläinen of Belarus won the 1993 Götzis decathlon with a national record of 8604 points, ahead of Paul Meier and Michael Smith.

With 8735 points Eduard Hämäläinen improves the Mösle Stadium record set by the legendary Daley Thompson in 1982 by five points

Michael Smith sets a Canadian record with 8626 points at Götzis 1996.

Eduard Hämäläinen wins Götzis 1997 for the third time with a Finnish record of 8617 points.

Canada’s Michael Smith won the decathlon title at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland with 8525 points, finishing 318 ahead of home favourite Simon Poelman (8207). England’s Eugene Gilkes claimed bronze with 7705, holding off Alex Kruger …

Canadian men’s decathlon all-time list up to 7600 points

New star rise in the all-around sky in Götzis - Erki Nool from Estonia wins ahead of the favorite Eduard Hämäläinen.

Michael Schrader wins Götzis 2009 with 8522 points, becoming the first German winner since Christian Schenk in 1990, ahead of Trey Hardee and Pascal Behrenbruch.

Preview of Tokyo Olympic Decathlon

At the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Tomáš Dvořák claimed decathlon gold, scoring 8837 points.

Dan O'Brien had famously missed the 1992 Olympics due to a failed pole vault in the U.S. trials, but redeemed himself in Atlanta by taking the gold. His Olympic victory was seen as the final crowning achievement in a legendary career.

This victory marked Dan O’Brien’s first world championship title - his international breakthrough and a pivotal launchpad for his historic multi-year dominance in decathlon

Christian Schenk produced a surprise victory in Seoul, winning decathlon gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics with a total of 8488 points.