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Estonia claimed the overall title at the 2019 European Combined Events Team Championships Super League in Lutsk, scoring 39959 points to finish 399 ahead of Belarus, with Great Britain taking bronze. Maicel Uibo led the Estonian decathletes with …

East Germany swept the men’s decathlon podium at the 1987 European Cup Combined Events A Final in Basel on 4–5 July. Torsten Voss led the way with 8445 points, followed by Uwe Freimuth (8220) and Thomas Fahner (8187). Their combined 24852 …

The Soviet Union edged East Germany by just 89 points to win the men’s team title at the 1985 European Cup Combined Events A Final in Krefeld on 7–8 September. Torsten Voss won the individual decathlon with 8352 points, ahead of Aleksandr …

West Germany retained the men’s team title at the 1983 European Cup Combined Events A Final in Sofia on 10–11 September, finishing 250 points ahead of East Germany. Uwe Freimuth won the individual decathlon with an East German record of 8501 …

West Germany won a dramatic team contest at the 1981 European Cup Combined Events Final in Birmingham on 29–30 August, overturning East Germany’s lead in the closing 1500 m to win by 173 points. Rainer Pottel took the individual decathlon …

Siegfried Stark powered East Germany to victory at the 1979 European Cup Combined Events Final in Dresden on 1–2 September. He won the men’s decathlon with 8287 points, ahead of Guido Kratschmer (8053) and Aleksandr Nevski (7949). The hosts …

Aleksandr Grebenyuk led the Soviet Union to team victory at the 1977 European Cup Combined Events Final in Villeneuve d’Ascq on 17–18 September. He won the individual decathlon with 8252 points, ahead of East Germany’s Rainer Pottel (8096) …

The Soviet Union secured a one ‐two finish and the men’s team title at the 1975 European Cup Combined Events Final in Bydgoszcz on 6–7 September. Leonid Litvinenko won the decathlon with 8030 points, finishing 57 points ahead of teammate …

Lennart Hedmark won the men’s decathlon at the inaugural European Cup Combined Events Final in Bonn on 22–23 September 1973, scoring 8120 points ahead of Yves Leroy and Ryszard Skowronek. Poland claimed the team title, beating the Soviet …

Valter Külvet won the decathlon at the 1983 European U20 Championships in Schwechat with a championship-record 7915 points (7880 by the 1985 scoring table).

Daley Thompson claimed his first Commonwealth Games decathlon title in Edmonton in 1978, winning for England with a wind ‐assisted total of 8467 points, equivalent to 8470 under the 1985 scoring tables. Australia’s Peter Hadfield took …

Brazil’s Pedro Ferreira da Silva won decathlon gold at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana with 7762 points, just 36 ahead of Cuba’s Eugenio Balanque. American Sheldon Blockburger secured bronze with 7262 despite scoring no points in the …

Johannes Erm has just finished the most successful season of his career

Sander Skotheim became the first Norwegian ever to win the men’s overall title in the Combined Events Tour

Jaakko Ojaniemi topped the 2002 Multistars decathlon in Desenzano del Garda, scoring 8092 points to secure victory for Finland. Germany’s Mike Maczey finished 158 points behind the winner on 7934, but the closest battle came immediately behind …

Germany’s Leo Neugebauer won his first world decathlon title at the 2025 Tokyo Championships with 8804 points.

The 1994 Multistars decathlon in Brescia produced a dramatic finish, with Hungary’s Sándor Munkácsi scoring 7895 points to defeat Germany’s Peter Neumaier by just 13 points.

Robert Zmelik claimed an impressive victory at the 1991 Multistars decathlon in Brescia, scoring 8297 points. Just one year later, the Czech decathlete reached the pinnacle of his career by winning Olympic gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

The 2026 Jõgeva International Athletics Pentathlon produced two outstanding national records.