Women personal bests for Multi Events and other events (12)
Is a decathlete a real athlete? Commentators, world records, decathlon and prejudice!
Part V Women Personal Bests for Multi events
World records are in fact personal records. Since it is fair to compare personal records with personal records here follows a list of those Pb’s for women combined events. The order of appearance of the events in decathlon for women is as you know not the same as for men (according to new IAAF rules changed for practical reasons). The events in bolt are heptathlon events. Criteria: 6500 points Decathlon; 5000 points Heptathlon; 3500 points Pentathlon.
Decathlon Women
Day 1
| 100 m | 10.80 10.91 | +2.8 +0.2 | Heike Heike | Drechsler Drechsler | H H | 1986 1986 |
| Discus | 61.40 |
| Marie Paule | Geldhof | H/P | 1994 |
| Pole vault | 4.83 |
| Stacy | Dragila | D/H/P | 2004 |
| Javelin | 72.28 |
| Barbora | Spotakova | D/H/P | 2008 |
| 400 m | 50.05 |
| Rosemarie | Whyte | H | 2008 |
Day 2
| 100 m H | 12.21 | +0.7 | Yordanka | Donkova | H | 1988 |
| Long Jump | 7.63 A 7.49 | +2.1 +1.3 | Heike Jackie | Drechsler Joyner | H H | 1992 1994 |
| Shot Put | 21.43 |
| Eva | Wilms | P | 1977 |
| High Jump | 2.05 |
| Tia | Hellebaut | H/P | 2008 |
| 1500 m | 4 19.50 |
| Ester | Goossens | D/H/P | 1994 |
Unique Heptathlon events
| 200 m | 21.71 | +1.2 | Heike | Drechsler | H | 1986 |
| 800 m | 1 59.24 |
| Ester | Goossens | D/H/P | 1998 |
Unique Pentathlon event
| 60 m H | 7.68 | Ind. | Susanna | Kallur | H/P | 2008 |
Today’s decathlon world record holder is Austra Skujyte with a points total of 8358. The sum of her pb’s - 9006 points - makes us suspect she could have gone higher but the sport isn’t really popular at the moment, so if she will return to the decathlon is questionable. She always said she is a heptathlete in the first place. Anyhow, for decathlon events, (only legal performances compared) “multi e” athletes performed all together at 92.35 % of the world records!
Part VI Other events
People probably wonder what the personal records from participants of combined events are for the other disciplines in track and field (and that we can count as world records for multi eventers), therefore we give two more lists – one of the extra events typical for the double decathlon with the same criteria mentioned in the previous article and one for women deca-, hepta- and pentathlon events.
Extra events of the Double Decathlon (Icosathlon) MEN
Triple Jump
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 17.33 | indoor | Viktor | Gushchinskiy | 2006 | H |
Hammer Throw
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 64.00 |
| Ron | Wopat |
| D |
200 meters
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 20.63 | A -1.9 | Alejandro | Cardenas | 1998 | D |
200 meters Hurdles
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 22.5 |
| Martin | Lauer | 1959 | D |
400 meters Hurdles
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 48.86 |
| Stephane | Caristan | 1992 | D |
800 meters
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 1 46.19 |
| Raïvo | Magi | 1985 | DD |
3000 meters
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 7 55.90 |
| Greg | Jimmerson | 2001 | DD |
3000 meters Hurdles
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 8 31.88 |
| Greg | Jimmerson | 2001 | DD |
5000 meters
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 13 38.16 |
| Greg | Jimmerson | 2001 | DD |
10.000 meters
| Perform. |
| Name |
| Year |
|
| 28 40.25 |
| Greg | Jimmerson | 2000 | DD |