Janek Salmistu

Dmitri Karpov is certainly not Ramil Ganiyev Thanks for pointing that out!

Now, looking back seven years later, we can see that none of them is comparable to Ashton Eaton… sadly!

Janis Lusis was a world-class javelin thrower but also good decathlete. After winning the 1962 European Championships in javelin throw (82.04m - CR) in Tashkent, he showed a result of 7763 points (1950 point table) in decathlon which became a Latvian record and the fifth result in the world ranking in 1962.