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Mihail Dudaš is a Serbian former decathlete who competed at the international level throughout the 2010s, representing Serbia at World and European Championships as well as the Olympic Games.

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 …

Till Steinforth won heptathlon bronze at both the European and World Indoor Championships in 2025, setting a German record of 6388 points in Apeldoorn before scoring 6275 in Nanjing. Outdoors, he won the Ratingen 2024 decathlon with a personal …

Ashton Eaton of the United States won the men’s decathlon at the London 2012 Olympic Games with 8869 points, securing his first Olympic title. Fellow American Trey Hardee claimed silver with 8671 points, while Cuba’s Leonel Suarez took bronze …

Willem Coertzen set an African decathlon record of 8398 points when finishing third at the Götzis Hypomeeting in 2015. The South African also won the Talence Décastar that year and earned African Championships silver in 2008 and bronze in 2016.

Carlos Eduardo Chinin set a South American decathlon record of 8393 points in São Paulo 2013 and finished sixth at the Moscow World Championships with 8388. The Brazilian also won Pan American Games and Universiade bronze medals in 2007.

Ashton and Brianne Eaton interrupting their honeymoon for the Decastar in Talence. Renaud Lavillenie attempting to break the pole vault world record in decathlon.

Before turning to athletics, Carlos Chinin played football and basketball, but after winning medals at a school event in 2002, he began pursuing the decathlon, facing recurring injuries until a serious pole vault accident in 2012 nearly ended …