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The mains Ultra Multievents are the Icosathlon for men and the Tetradecathlon for women. Actually, women do the Icosathlon too.

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.

Hubert Trościanka made history at the European U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, becoming the first athlete ever to surpass 8500 points in the U20 decathlon - rewarded with a new world record.

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.

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

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

A leave-one-event-out test of 17,277 complete decathlon performances

A leave-one-event-out test from 7,000 to 4,000 points

Rafał Snoch examines the five Day One events through 100-point FDM-40N cohorts, revealing how individual specialists, weak-event survivors and population patterns shape the residuals behind the scoring model.

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 …

Part 8 takes the Fair Decathlon Model into its deepest territory yet, examining B — the parameter that determines where scoring reaches zero. Using 10, 720 complete performances with totals below 7000 points, this analysis tests whether the …

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 …

Aleksandr Grebenyuk won the European decathlon title in Prague in 1978 and the European Cup individual title in Villeneuve d’Ascq in 1977. Representing the Soviet Union, he scored a personal best of 8400 points in Riga to lead the 1977 world …

Jürgen Hingsen claimed his first decathlon world record at the 1982 West German Championships in Ulm, scoring 8723 points on 14–15 August. His performance included a 7. 85 m long jump, a 2. 15 m high jump and a decisive 4: 15. 13 in the 1500 …

Viktor Gruzenkin was a Russian ‐born combined events athlete who represented the Soviet Union. He set a world indoor heptathlon best of 5934 points in Ordzhonikidze in 1979 and achieved his decathlon best in Kyiv in 1984, scoring 8356 points …