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A powerful finish carried Niklas Kaul to decathlon gold at the 2016 World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz. His championship record of 8162 points secured victory ahead of Maksim Andraloits and Johannes Erm, who set Belarusian and Estonian U20 …

20 years Decathlon 2000... and who’s responsible for the joy it gave us? An open letter!

Canada celebrated a historic one-two finish as Pierce Lepage claimed his first world title ahead of Olympic champion Damian Warner.

Eric Kaiser won the decathlon at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv with a championship record of 7762 points. Jarkko Finni took silver with 7698, while David Bigham earned bronze with 7488. West and East Germany competed as separate …

Michael Kohnle won the decathlon at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Sudbury with a championship record of 7729 points. Czechoslovakia’s Robert Zmelik took silver with 7659, while the Soviet Union’s Eduard Hämäläinen earned bronze …

Athens hosted the inaugural World Junior Championships in 1986, with the decathlon held on 16–17 July. Finland’s Petri Keskitalo claimed the first title with a championship record of 7623 points, ahead of Canada’s Michael Smith with 7523 …

The European Cup Combined Events Super League historical archive showcases all-time decathlon records and results, highlighting the best performances across the competition’s history.

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day Two events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how technical failures, specialist strengths, exceptional performances and contrasting athlete populations shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

Tomas Järvinen dominated the decathlon at the 2024 World U20 Championships in Lima, scoring a championship and Czech U20 record of 8425 points, just ten short of the world U20 record. Hubert Trościanka took silver with a Polish U20 record of …

In 1988, Külvet surpassed his best decathlon with a score of 8506 points in Staiki, Belarus. This achievement placed him second in the world that season, just behind Christian Plaziat of France.

A Head-to-Head Analysis of the Fair Decathlon Model

How a larger and stricter sample changed the formulas without changing the conclusions

A leave-one-event-out test of 17,277 complete decathlon performances

A leave-one-event-out test from 7,000 to 4,000 points

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day One events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how individual specialists, weak-event survivors and population patterns shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

Liam Belo Da Silva won the decathlon at the 2026 World U20 Championships in Eugene with a Swedish U20 record and world-leading score of 8112 points. Mikai Snoek secured silver with 7887, just ten points ahead of bronze medallist Adam Juliš.

This article asks whether the decathlon’s own performance data can provide enough information to calibrate a fair scoring system without relying primarily on elite athletes. Using 27, 741 complete decathlons—and a separate dataset excluding all …

Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the …