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Jaakko Ojaniemi’s top decathlon score of 8192 points was achieved at the 2002 European Championships in München. His international medal collection is almost entirely from junior and U23 competitions.

Kurt Bendlin, a gifted German decathlete, overcame multiple injuries and personal tragedy to set a world record in 1967, and despite repeated setbacks, made several comebacks throughout his career.

Simon Poelman's legacy to New Zealand athletics is that of the greatest all round athlete in it's history. His outstanding and, probably, under developed ability at a wide range of events brought him successes at many major events. He is also …

Jan Doležal won the men’s decathlon at the 2015 European Athletics U20 Championships in Eskilstuna with 7929 points, ahead of future Olympic and world champion Karsten Warholm (7764) and Maksim Andraloits (7717), making it a notable result in …

Damian Warner, the decathlete who surprised the World by coming from nowhere to finish 5th at the London Olympics (2012).

Many of combined events meetings have a long tradition, like the Hypo Meeting in Götzis and Decastar in Talence.

This archive presents historical men’s decathlon marks recorded before the establishment of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). In the early years, the decathlon was sometimes completed in a single day and sometimes …

You also feel a sense of injustice when world records from professionals are compared with the world records from participants of the multi events?

This project presents comprehensive all ‐time rankings of track and field athletes, evaluating their careers using criteria inspired by Track & Field News world rankings ‐ honors, records, consistency, and head ‐to ‐head …

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, …

Niklas Kaul won the men’s decathlon at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, scoring a championship ‐leading 8435 points ahead of Johannes Erm (8141) and Karel Tilga (8002), making this a key result in the European U20 …