Pieter Braun clinched the gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Tallinn (2015), Estonia, with a personal best score of 8195 points. His absolute personal best in the decathlon is 8342 points, achieved at the prestigious Hypo
Jan Felix Knobel won the world U20 decathlon title in Bydgoszcz 2008 with 7896 points and finished eighth at the World Championships in Daegu 2011. His best wind ‐legal decathlon score was 8288 points in Götzis 2011, while his highest total
Rico Freimuth followed his father Uwe into international decathlon, winning world bronze in Beijing in 2015 and silver in London in 2017. His personal best of 8663 points came in Ratingen in 2017, a season in which he also secured his second
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
Gunnar Nixon won the world U20 decathlon title in Barcelona 2012 and the US indoor heptathlon title with 6232 points in 2013. The American set his decathlon personal best of 8312 points at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.
Kai Kazmirek earned world decathlon bronze in London in 2017, a year after scoring a personal best of 8580 points to finish fourth at the Rio Olympics. The German decathlete also won the 2013 European U23 title and the 2015 Götzis Hypomeeting,
Ingmar Vos represented the Netherlands in the decathlon at the London 2012 Olympics and set his personal best of 8224 points in Götzis that year. He also finished fifth in the heptathlon at the Paris 2011 European Indoor Championships and won
Ilya Shkurenyov won European indoor heptathlon gold in Prague 2015 and European decathlon silver in Berlin 2018. The Russian also won the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge and set his decathlon personal best of 8601 points in Smolensk 2017.
Maicel Uibo became NCAA decathlon champion in 2014 and 2015. At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, he earned a bronze medal in the heptathlon, setting a personal best of 6265 points. At the 2019 World Championships in Doha he
Jiri Sykora captured the world U20 decathlon title with 8135 points in Eugene 2014 and European U23 gold in Bydgoszcz 2017. The Czech decathlete set his senior personal best of 8122 points in Arona 2021 and achieved 6020 in the indoor heptathlon in
Kurt Felix won the 2012 NCAA Division I decathlon title with a Grenadian national record of 8062 points and later set his personal best of 8509 in Ratingen 2017. He earned Commonwealth Games bronze in Glasgow 2014 and Pan American Games silver in
Zach Ziemek won world decathlon bronze in Eugene 2022 with a personal best of 8676 points. The American competed at three Olympics, finishing sixth in Tokyo 2021, and won the NCAA indoor heptathlon title in Birmingham 2016.
Devon Williams won the NCAA indoor heptathlon title in 2017 with 6177 points and finished tenth in the decathlon at the London World Championships later that year. The American improved his decathlon personal best to 8402 points in Ratingen 2026.
I wish that in the nearest future everybody will know about decathlon and the meaning of the event of decathlon... decathletes are like our greek gods - Petros Kyprianou