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Cheered on by 7000 spectators, Great Britain’s Daley Thompson set a decathlon world record of 8622 points at the 1980 combined events meeting in Götzis, ahead of Guido Kratschmer and Jürgen Hingsen. His record performance is worth 8648 points …

Daley Thompson won his first Olympic decathlon title at the Moscow 1980 Games with 8495 points, equivalent to 8522 under the 1985 scoring tables. The British athlete led a field of 21 competitors from 12 countries, finishing ahead of Soviet …

The 1980 Soviet Union Decathlon Championships in Moscow produced a close battle for the title, with Yuri II Kutsenko winning on 8329 points ahead of Valeri Kachanov (8306) and Sergei Zhelanov (8282). Held on 20–21 June as a selection competition …

Austria’s Georg Werthner won the 1980 Talence international combined events meeting with 7937 points, finishing 381 ahead of France’s Eric Motti. Switzerland’s Stephan Niklaus took third with 7541 points in this early edition of the meeting …

Guido Kratschmer won the men’s decathlon at the 1980 West German Championships in Lage on 6–7 September with 8185 points. Jens Schulze took silver with 7893, ahead of Rudolf Brumund with 7721. Held alongside the West Germany–Soviet Union …

West German Olympic decathlon trials Bernhausen 1980 produced a world record of 8649 points by Guido Kratschmer, equivalent to 8667 under the 1985 scoring tables. Jürgen Hingsen finished second with 8407 and Wolfgang Muders third with 8100. …

The Soviet Union won the decathlon match against West Germany in Lage on 6–7 September 1980, scoring 31735 points to the hosts’ 31605. West Germany’s Guido Kratschmer topped the individual standings with 8185 points, ahead of Yuri Kutsenko …