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Tom Pappas won world decathlon gold in Paris and world indoor heptathlon gold in Birmingham in 2003, also claiming the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge title that year. The American set his decathlon best of 8784 points in Palo Alto 2003 and …
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Let me start out by saying that Götzis is the best track meet in the world and that the people of Götzis and the organizing committee are to be congratulated. Everything you hear about Götzis is true!
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Siegfried Wentz achieved a personal best of 8762 points in Bernhausen (5 June 1983), which at the time made him third on the world all-time list
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Sebastian Chmara is the Polish Decathlon record holder who became World Indoor champion in 1999 and European Indoor champion in 1998. He cemented his legacy in Polish athletics with a stunning 8566 ‐point decathlon in 1998, securing his …
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Robert Zmelik won Olympic decathlon gold with 8611 points in Barcelona 1992 and became world indoor heptathlon champion in Paris 1997. He achieved his decathlon personal best of 8627 points in Götzis 1992 and scored 6228 points for his world …
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Lev Lobodin won three European decathlon bronze medals and world indoor heptathlon silver in Birmingham 2003. Having represented Ukraine before switching to Russia, he achieved a decathlon best of 8571 points in Budapest 1998 and set a Russian …
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Jon Arnar Magnusson is the Icelandic record holder at 110m hurdles, long jump and decathlon. He set numerous national records, secured multiple international indoor medals in heptathlon, and consistently ranked among the world’s elite decathletes.
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Sports history has been written in Götzis numerous times
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Guido Kratschmer won an Olympic silver medal at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. German Sportspersonality of the Year 1980.
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Grigori Degtyaryov won the Götzis Hypomeeting in 1983 and 1984, Friendship Games gold in Moscow 1984 and Goodwill Games gold in Moscow 1986. Representing the Soviet Union, he set a personal best of 8698 points in Kyiv 1984, a performance …
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Ashley Moloney won Olympic decathlon bronze in Tokyo 2021 with an Australian record of 8649 points. The Tampere 2018 world U20 champion also claimed world indoor heptathlon bronze with 6344 points in Belgrade 2022.
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The decathlon is two days of gruesome effort over ten events - running, jumping and throwing
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Yang Chuan-kwang was the first and, so far, only decathlon world record holder from outside Europe and the United States
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At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Bruce Jenner captured gold in the men’s decathlon, cementing his place in athletic history
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Christian Schenk's personal best was 8500 points, achieved in August 1993 in Stuttgart.
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Steve Fritz had finished the best competition of his life, scoring 8644 points, more than Bruce Jenner produced to win the Montreal gold. That got him only fourth place.
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Dmitri Karpov won Olympic decathlon bronze in Athens 2004 with an Asian record of 8725 points, alongside world bronze medals in Paris 2003 and Osaka 2007. The Kazakh also won two Asian Games titles, the 2006 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge …
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