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Heath Baldwin won the 2024 US Olympic Trials decathlon with a personal best of 8625 points and finished tenth at the Paris Olympics. The American claimed world indoor heptathlon silver in Toruń 2026 with 6337 points.

Since 1999, Decathlon 2000 has been your faithful companion in the world of decathlon.

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

An interview with Alex Folacci, the best personal trainer in New York City

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.

Trościanka's performance included a world U20 decathlon best of 46,21 seconds in the 400 meters and a championship best of 68.87 meters in the javelin throw.

Explore the rich history of the World Athletics Indoor Championships men's heptathlon, featuring all ‐time records, legendary champions, outstanding performances, and historic medal battles. Discover the athletes and nations that have …

Explore the rich history of the European Athletics Indoor Championships men's heptathlon, featuring all ‐time records, legendary champions, outstanding performances, and historic medal battles. Discover the athletes and nations that have …

Germany’s Leo Neugebauer won his first world decathlon title at the 2025 Tokyo Championships with 8804 points.

Oregon’s Peyton Bair, the defending NCAA Indoor heptathlon champion, set a world-leading score of 6371 points to break the meet record of 6272 set by Razorback Ayden Owens in 2022.

Since 1988, Multistars has been one of the leading international decathlon meetings, producing world ‐class performances, meeting records, and future global champions. This archive presents the all ‐time decathlon records and …

The 2026 Jõgeva International Athletics Pentathlon produced two outstanding national records.

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

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 …

After completing the zero ‐point audit in Part 8, the Fair Decathlon Model now turns to a deeper question: what should a decathlon scoring table actually measure? Part 9 explores why performances cannot be separated from the two ‐day …

A decathlon is not ten separate events. It is one competition, unfolding over two days, with one clock running from the first start to the final finish. Part 10 of the Fair Decathlon Model asks what happens when we look at the decathlon this way …

Tim Nowak earned European U20 decathlon bronze in Rieti 2013 and world U20 bronze in Eugene 2014 before progressing to the senior championships, finishing tenth in Doha 2019. He set his decathlon personal best of 8282 points in Götzis 2024 and …