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,
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Lindon Victor is the Grenadian decathlon record holder. He won bronze medals at the World Championships in Budapest 2023 and at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. He was the overall winner of the 2022 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.
Garrett Scantling achieved a personal best of 8867 points at the 2022 USATF Combined Events Championships. He banned for three years for doping offences. Scantling’s three ‐year period of ineligibility started on June 27 2022, the date he
Leo Neugebauer has broken the 39 ‐years old German decathlon record. He scored 8836 points at the NCAA Division Championships in Austin, Texas (2023). Year later he won second consecutive men’s decathlon title at the NCAA in Eugene,
Markus Rooth won gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Espoo 2023. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, the first gold medal for Norway in this event since 1920.