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The U20 World Championships historical archive showcases all-time decathlon records and champions, highlighting the most promising young athletes and their standout performances throughout 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.

IN MEMORIAM - Kurt Bendlin (1943 – 2024)

The first man over 9000 points in history - with an anniversary

The Indian decathlete, who also holds the men’s high jump national mark, scored 7826 points

World Indoor Championships’ complete history reveals all-time records, winners, and medal tables, highlighting the most outstanding achievements and leading nations throughout the event’s legacy

Explore the progression of men’s decathlon world ‐best performances by event, showing how the highest standards in each individual discipline have developed over time. This unique archive traces the evolution of the best performances …

All ‐time men’s indoor heptathlon individual event lists, featuring the best performances and rankings from competitions scoring above 5000 points. The archive covers individual marks in all seven heptathlon events and aims to include …

All ‐time men’s heptathlon 1st and 2nd day scores rankings, featuring the best 100 performances and 100 performers from complete indoor heptathlon competitions. The rankings include both first ‐day and second ‐day scores and …

Explore the progression of world ‐best performances in the men’s indoor heptathlon, showing how standards in each individual event have improved over time. The archive tracks the development of the best performances across the complete …

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

The publication of the first article in the Fair Decathlon Model (FDM) series has already sparked an interesting discussion within the combined events community.

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

The Principles Behind Decathlon Scoring Tables: What Should a Scoring System Actually Measure?

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

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 …