Almost 40 years ago in Los Angeles (during XXIII Olympiade) only five points appeared to be the difference between Gold and Silver medalists at women’s Heptathlon…..
Actually it's just a small town in Vorarlberg, Austria. Once a year, in late May, it hosts the most famous of all decathlon meetings, the Hypomeeting. It's probably the oldest one (first meeting held in 1975), the Mecca of decathlon, with
Andrei Krauchanka's personal best score is 8617 points, achieved in May 2007 in Götzis. He won an Olympic silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008). He won gold medal at the European Championships in Zurich 2014 and also at European
Leonel Suarez won an Olympic bronze medal twice: at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008) and at the London Olympic Games (2012). He holds Cuban national record for the decathlon with 8654 points.
Decathlon 2000 has pretty much everything you could want to know about decathlon. Whenever I go to a decathlon, you can be sure that I’ve got a sheaf of Decathlon 2000 athlete profiles printed, tabbed, and highlighted in my notebook - Gabby Pieraccini