A new Decathlon High Jump standard (0)
Derek Drouin won the gold medal in the high jump at the Olympic Games in Rio, clearing 2.38. We were waiting for him to do a decathlon again. Everyone knew he could break the world record but the question was, when is he going to participate again in a ten-eventer. In 2013 he already broke the indoor record in the high jump for the heptathlon doing 5817 points and jumping 2m30. Although they are world records in combination with a multi-event, those are not called world records but world bests.
Now, early in the season he completed his second decathlon ever at the Sam Adams Combined Events Invitational Decathlon at Westmont College on Friday April 7. Drouin cleared 2m28 and scored 7150 points smashing his previous personal best of 6592 Points from 2010.
Drouin aims to compete for Canada in the decathlon at the Commonwealth Games Gold Coast 2018.
Profile Derek Drouin
Hght: 196 Wght: 80 DOB: 06 03 90
Personal Bests
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Decathlon Heptathlon 100 m LJ SP HJ 400 m 110 H DT PV JT 1500 m 60 60H 1000 m 400 H |
7150 5817 11.42(+0.6) 720 (i) 12.28 240 51.81 13.87 (+2.5) 34.85 415 (i) 57.65 4 54.51 7.25 7.98 2 45.06 56.30 |
Rolf Beischmidt and Christian Schenk
Evolution of the record
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Otto Röhr Otto Mühl Leslie Byrd Richard Schnacke Irv Mondschein Bill Miller Ernie Shelton Dave Thoreson Dave Thoreson Günther Spielvogel Rick Sloan Herbert Hüttl William Hancock Dennis Adama Rolf Beilschmidt Rolf Beilschmidt |
1.77.5 1.77.5 1.80 1.87 1.88.5 1.95.5 1.97 1.98 1.98 1.98 2.03 2.06 2.07 2.09 2.12 2.12 2.13 2.15 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.21 2.27 2.27 2.28 |
15/10/1911 15/10/1911 22/05/1912 14/07/1912 11/09/1922 03/09/1923 11/07/1924 05/07/1925 08/07/1945 29/06/1948 03/07/1951 02/09/1955 25/06/1964 02/07/1966 08/10/1966 06/09/1968 18/09/1969 05/06/1971 07/08/1971 19/04/1973 29/06/1975 04/10/1975 01/10/1977 29/09/1988 07/04/2017 |
Harold Osborn, holding the mark for best high jump in the decathlon for almost 23 years, also setting a world record of 2.03 in 1924.
Top 10 best high jumps in Decathlon - see on Decathlon 2000
Personal Best high jumps from Decathlon participants
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Height 2.40 2.36 2.32 2.31 2.30 2.28 2.27 2.25 2.24 2.24 |
Year 2014 1980 1985 1977 1994 1998 1988 2013 2008 1986 |
Name Gerd Wessig Rolf Beilschmidt |
Best Decathlon 7150/2017 7974/1983 8025/1989 7088/1977 8490/1998 7608/1997 8500/1993 8425/2017 7683/2008 7651/1990 |
In this list only 2 athletes performed their best high jump in a multi-event. Schenk in a decathlon (8488/1988) and Taiwo in a heptathlon (6156/2013). Yaroslav Rybakov was good for a 2.38 jump in 2005 and a 5800 heptathlon in 2000. Nick Ross 2.31/2014 and 5269 hep/2012. Aleksandr Shustov 2.36 in 2011 and 4564 hep/2012. Daniel Albu 2.25 in 1981 and 6981 dec/1985. Scott Sellers 2.33/2007 and a 4046 indoor pentathlon/2007. Jaroslav Baba 2.37/2005 participated in an Icosathlon 7111/2008.
Gerd Wessig winning a Olympic gold medal in 1980 with a jump of 2m36.