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

Dan O'Brien successfully defended his world decathlon title at the 1993 World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on 19–20 August. The American scored 8817 points, setting a new championship record and finishing 93 points ahead of …

Dan O'Brien of the United States won the men's decathlon at the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with a championship record of 8812 points, claiming his first world title. Canada's Michael Smith secured silver with 8549 points, while …

Christian Plaziat claimed the decathlon gold medal at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, setting a new French national record of 8574 points. Hungary’s Dezső Szabó secured silver with a national record of 8436 …

Dennis Leyckes won the decathlon at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Santiago with a championship record of 7897 points. Spain’s David Gomez Martinez took silver with 7772, while Andre Niklaus earned bronze with 7712, giving Germany two …

Finnish decathletes claimed gold and silver at the 1999 European Junior Championships in Riga. Aki Heikkinen won with a Finnish U20 record of 7881 points, followed by Jaakko Ojaniemi with 7763, while Austria’s Roland Schwarzl took bronze with 7447.

Tom Pappas won the men's decathlon at the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris Saint ‐Denis, France, on 26–27 August, scoring 8750 points to claim his first outdoor world title. World record holder Roman Šebrle of the Czech …

At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Roman Šebrle claimed his first world decathlon title with 8676 points, narrowly defeating Jamaica's Maurice Smith (8644) by just 32 points in one of the closest finishes in World Championships …

Nicklas Wiberg claimed the decathlon title at the 2003 European Junior Championships in Tampere with 7604 points. Aleksei Sysoyev took silver with 7531, while Steffen Willwacher secured bronze with 7497, just seven points ahead of Robert …

Andrei Krauchanka won the decathlon at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto with a championship record of 8126 points. Russia’s Aleksei Sysoyev took silver with 8047, while Germany’s Norman Müller earned bronze with 7942. The …

38th European Athletics Indoor Championships - Sander Aae Skotheim breaks the European heptathlon record.

The decathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, delivered a thrilling battle for the podium. Czech star Roman Šebrle successfully defended his continental crown with 8526 points, but the closest contest …

Matthias Prey won the decathlon at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo with 7908 points. Rok Deržanic secured silver with a Slovenian U20 record of 7560, while Rico Freimuth took bronze for Germany with 7524, just eight points …

Jan Felix Knobel won the decathlon at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz with 7896 points, just two ahead of Belarus’s Eduard Mikhan, who set a national U20 record of 7894. Serbia’s Mihail Dudaš took bronze with 7663.

Since official ratification began in 1922, 38 men’s decathlon world records have been recognised, including eight achieved at the Olympic Games — the last by Daley Thompson in Los Angeles in 1984. Changes to the scoring tables make direct …

The decathlon at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki marked a career ‐defining triumph for Germany's Pascal Behrenbruch. With a personal best of 8558 points, he captured European gold ahead of Ukraine's Oleksiy Kasyanov …

14th IAAF World Indoor Championships