Women's decathlon (13)

Women's decathlon all-time world list >6000 points by Erkki Kiilunen, updated 20.09.2024
Finnish women's decathlon all-time list >4500 points by Erkki Kiilunen, updated 09.10.2023

At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon; prior to 1980 it was the five-event pentathlon.

Women's disciplines differ from men's in the same way as for standalone events: the shot, discus and javelin weigh less, and the sprint hurdles uses lower hurdles over 100 m rather than 110 m. The points tables used are the same as for the heptathlon in the shared events.

Although the women’s ten-event decathlon has been an official “IAAF” event since 2004, it has not yet replaced the seven-event heptathlon at Olympic Games and World Championships.

The first world record in the women's decathlon was recognized by the IAAF in 2004.

Marie Collonvillé (FRA) was the first-ever IAAF-recognised world record holder in the women's decathlon; the event was officially recognised from 1 January 2005, and her mark of 8160 points set in Talence on 26 September 2004 was broken by Austra Skujytė on 15 April 2005.

Austra Skujytė is a Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon. On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358. Skujytė's individual performances were as follows: 100 m – 12,49 sec; long jump – 6.12 m; shot put – 16.42 m; high jump – 1.78 m; 400 m – 57,19 sec; 100 m hurdles – 14,22 sec; discus – 46.19 m; pole vault – 3.10 m; javelin – 48.78 m; 1500 m, 5.15,86 sec.