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24 days after 1st World Champs in Helsinki completed, in Bulgarian Capital Sofia took part 6th European Cup Final of combined events

East Germany, led by Ramona Neubert and Sybille Thiele, were favorites in Sofia, while Bulgaria and the USSR provided strong competition despite key absences.

Thriling contest with surprise winner

Oleksandr Apaichev achieved a personal best of 8709 points during a dual meet between the Soviet Union and East Germany in Neubrandenburg in 1984. This score remains the Ukrainian national record. After retiring from competitive athletics, …

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

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

National heptathlon records by country

Ukrainian heptathlon all-time list up to 5800 points

Highest decathlon scores ever achieved

National decathlon records by country

Estonian decathlon all-time list up to 7400 points

Polish decathlon all-time list up to 7600 points

All-time Decathlon individual event lists

The traditions of Bulgarian decathlon stars during XX century were longlive and deserved some respect and good memories...

The historic facts & figures surrounding Bulgarian female “all ‐round” athletes are more heroic, rememberable and important that those of Bulgarian men. They left significant trace into European and world track & field annals and can be …

Bulgarian decathlon had glory days, glory persons. But good traditions were lost somewhere in the past. Who knows – maybe some day a new prodigy will be born to revive the well forgotten.