Torsten Voss captured the decathlon gold medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome with a dominant and consistent performance, scoring 8680 points.
The men’s decathlon at the 2002 IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston was won by Leonid Andreyev (Uzbekistan) with 7693 points, narrowly ahead of Nadir El Fassi (France) with 7677 and Mikko Halvari (Finland) with 7587.
The men’s decathlon at the 2000 IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago was won by Dennis Leyckes (Germany) with 7897 points, ahead of David Gomez Martinez (Spain) with 7772 and Andre Niklaus (Germany) with 7712.
Aki Heikkinen won the men’s decathlon at the 1998 IAAF World Junior Championships in Annecy with 7476 points, leading a Finnish one-two with Jaakko Ojaniemi (7246) and finishing ahead of Germany’s Thomas Pöge (7332).
Attila Zsivoczky won the men’s decathlon at the 1996 IAAF World Junior Championships in Sydney with 7582 points, defeating Great Britain’s Dean Macey (7480) and the Netherlands’ Chiel Warners (7368) in a closely contested U20 decathlon.
At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Roman Šebrle captured the decathlon title with 8676 points, completing his long pursuit after two World Championships silver medals with a long-awaited gold medal.
Andrei Krauchanka won the men’s decathlon at the 2004 IAAF World Junior Championships in Grosseto with a championship-leading 8126 points, ahead of Aleksei Sysoyev (8047) and Norman Müller (7942).
At the 2022 World U20 Championships in Cali, Gabriel Emmanuel claimed the men’s decathlon gold with 7860 points, while Sweden’s Jacob Thelander finished second and Elliot Duvert took third.
With a brilliant, well-balanced performance across the competition, Ashton Eaton took decathlon gold at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, scoring 8809 points.
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