Guestbook archive (2001-2002)

Name: Hennie Viljoen
Homepage: http://www.sasports.co.za
Hometown: Pretoria, South Africa
Sent: 22.22 - 15/1 2003
You have a great site. Never to "old" to learn. I have a SPORT PORTAL which you can visit and ADD LINKS FREE. Send us your event and I will publish it.

Name: Turid
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/turi_h_s/Turid.html
Hometown: Oslo, Norway
Sent: 06.38 - 9/1 2003
Hello. You have a GREAT Website :-) Welcom on my website:-)
Hugs Turid.

Name: Kristian Rakvåg
Homepage: http://home.no.net/krrakvag/indexeng.htm
Hometown: Bergen, Norway
Sent: 20.10 - 6/1 2003
GE Janek!
Very nice site with lots of info - the multievents people's dream.
BCU Kristian - mrakvaag@online.no

Name: Luiz balcers
Hometown: Sco Paulo, Brazil
Sent: 04.53 - 29/10 2002
Hi!
Great decathlon site!Keep it up!
Congratulations!

Name: jose
Hometown: sabana grande, Puerto Rico
Sent: 19.54 - 8/10 2002
Incredible statistics. Some great decathletes biographies were forgotten. Names likes Frank Busemann, chris huffins and others. I would like to see junior scouting articles to know where my favorite track event is going.

Name: Chris
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/weavyb.vaulter.html
Hometown: Rochester, NY, USA
Sent: 03.13 - 14/8 2002
This is a great site. I was wondering though if I should ever be a decathlete. I currently am about to be a high school pole vaulter My personal is 13 ft 6 in and I have recieved 2500 in a pentathlon. If you can help me please write

Name: hemu kiikka
Hometown: helsinki, finland
Sent: 16.17 - 13/8 2002
what can i say.. WOW !
this site is kinda perfect.

Name: Ürjo Ambre
Sent: 14.23 - 13/8 2002
Teen ettepaneku Skulptuur rajada Kadrioru staadionile vaikses kohas puude varjus kümmnevõistlejale Erki Noolele. Kalevipoja võiks ära jätta. Sellist visaduse eeskuju tuleb jäädvustada Eesti Vabariigi ajaloos!

Name: Brad Cordova
Hometown: Bakersfield CA, USA
Sent: 07.44 - 16/7 2002
This is a great site. I just hope I can be featured on it one day. I am an up and comer. Watch at the 2008 games.

Name: sun jie
Hometown: Chongqing, China
Sent: 15.58 - 9/7 2002
What a great site about DEC! I'm a DEC fever,but,you know,it is a cold event in China.I tried my best to find some info concerning DEC and HEP in Chinese web,but very dissapointed!
Occasionally,i found your web through IAAF.ORG.
Would you mind adding some biographes of famous players who are cmpetiting nowadays ,like Roman Sebrle,Tomas Dvorak,Dean Macey...? By the way,Chinese Qi Haifeng broke the national record with 8030 on 09.06.2002 in Benxi.
Good luck forever!

Name: dimitra tsili
Hometown: Ioannina, GREECE
Sent: 15.16 - 5/7 2002
Hello
This is the best website for decathlon.
I am a heptathlete myself and i wish everydoby to take part in Athens 2004!!!!Good Luck to all of us

Name: metsakutsa
Hometown: tallinn, eesti
Sent: 09.24 - 5/7 2002
tervitus... väga väga väga asjalik veebilehekülg teil, siit ja eriti sealtpoolt piiri saabunud tunnustusele ei oskagi midagi lisada. küll on mul ettepanek, et võimaluse korral palun riputage üles götzise, talence jne võitjad läbi aegade. nt alguses tabel senistest võitjatest + põhjalikum statistika iga aasta kohta (nagu praegu viimaste aastate kohta). götzises peeti esimene võistlus vist 1974 või 1975.

Name: mike
Homepage: http://www.elitetrack.com
Sent: 02.33 - 5/7 2002
Great page with lots of cool stuff...keep up the good work! I've just added a link to decathlon2000 to my track page: www.elitetrack.com

Name: Vladimkr Socha
Country Czech republic
Sent: 18.40 - 17/6 2002
Great web site!
Have to say, it was an incredible succes of our decatletes (?ebrle and Dvouik) what made me interested in decathlon and athletics as whole. Cheers, Vlad.

Name: Philip
Hometown: Seattle, USA
Sent: 06.17 - 9/6 2002
Great Website!

Name: Jacob Vandendriessche
Hometown: Oostende, Belgie
Sent: 16.21 - 5/6 2002
Been in GÖTZIS , it was wonderful.
I want to congratulate all competitors.

Name: Sean Steele
Hometown: Victoria, Canada
Sent: 05.42 - 29/4 2002
As a former 1970s/80s decathlete (seems like a lifetime ago) it's wonderful to see a site dedicated to this greatest of events. Consider it bookmarked!

Name: Ryan Harlan
Homepage: http://riceowls.com
Hometown: Hewitt/Waco, Texas, USA
Sent: 07.10 - 11/4 2002
Just thought I would tell you that I liked the site, it is so great to find so many people interested in the decathlon. God bless.
In Christ,
Ryan Harlan

Name: Anders Hansson
Hometown: Lund, Sweden
Sent: 22.25 - 3/4 2002
Hi,
I am a Swedish long jumper (not a very good one, though). I have also, together with a friend, developed a Decathlon game for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance. It’s called Fila Decathlon (Decathlon Advance in the U.S.) and you can check it out on the publisher’s site www.thq.de
If you like video games, you really should check it out. It is the only decathlon game ever, that has been designed by someone who knows a lot about athletics and the decathlon so it is very realistic. It is actually very much like the real decathlon, the only difference is that it tests the athletic ability of your fingers instead of your body! I also tried to include information about how the events are executed in real life and about the physical qualities that are required. I believe that many non-athletes will learn a lot about athletics and the decathlon by playing the game.
All the current elite athletes is included, but I have misspelled their names on purpose. For example Erki Nool is called E Cool and Roman Sebrle is called R Cebrle. Erki has actually played the game as he is sponsored by Fila!
Best wishes,
Anders Hansson

Name: David
Homepage: http://brosnahan@hotmail.com
Hometown: St. Paul, MN
Sent: 20.46 - 21/3 2002

Where can I find double-decathlons and one-hour decathlon competitions?

Name: petros kyprianou
Hometown: lemesos, cyprus-Greece
Sent: 22.50 - 7/3 2002

this is the best website about decathlon!!
i wish that in the nearest future everybody will khow about decathlon and the meaning of the event of decathlon...decathletes are like our greek gods!!

Name: Isa
Hometown: Kiel, Germany
Sent: 19.54 - 3/3 2002

Congratulations, the best site I've found about decathlon. Though, there are still some athletes missing in your list.

Name: Priit
Hometown: Tartu, Eesti
Sent: 21.21 - 23/2 2002

Miks teil Frank Busemanni allkirja ei ole!

Name: Uli Röhrl, Germany
Sent: 17.21 - 29/1 2002

I want to thank the publisher of this site very much, because I wrote my final work for school about "A critial view of decathlon" and DECATHLON2000 is the most important homepage about this topic.
I am a decathlete myself and wish everybody much fun with this topic.
Uli Röhrl

Name: martin, france
Sent: 01.24 - 1/12 2001

do you have the women decathlon world time list?
Some women have already done it, COLLONVILLE:7731
and MEZERETTE:7461,they're both from France.
this is the only information i have about it.
If you have other results, write me.
In 2003 the decathlon women will be official,
and we should see it at the european championship in 2005.

Name: MICHA£
Hometown: bielawa, POLAND
Sent: 23.34 - 24/11 2001

IF YOU LIKE DECATHLON WRITE TO ME

Name: Ivan Scolfaro
Hometown: S.B. do Campo, Brazil
Sent: 23.33 - 4/10 2001

I think that this website is the best website about decathlon and decathletes, but I whould like to see at this page the season World Junior List. It is possible to get this here?
Congratulations!!! The best website to the best sport - Decathlon.

Name: Matthew Zuber
Homepage: http://www.decathlonusa.org/IGC/index.html
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Sent: 04.12 - 7/9 2001

Who has the greatest athletic country?

Who is the world greatest athletic country? Russia? Sweden? Czech Republic? USA? One competition will decide it - International Gladiator Challenge.

This unique competition will finally find out which country has the greatest athletes. It is well known that the winner of the decathlon is dubbed the "Worlds Greatest Athlete", and the International Gladiator Challenge will determine the country with the best athletes. This competition will be a shortened version (4-6 hours) of a decathlon (usually 2 days) using three athletes. Each athlete will compete in a run (e.g. 100 m dash), jump (high jump) and a throw (discus). The highest winning score for the event is titled "The World's Greatest Athletic Country". This event is currently scheduled for June 2002 in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Initial sponsorship packages are being printed, details of the competition are in the web page - sign up yourself or a team. To participate in this event please contact me immediately.

Please forward this information to your athletes, coaches, trainers and athletic clubs.

Matthew E. Zuber, Meet Director, International Gladiator Challenge
+1(505) 797-8091 home, USA
+1(505) 853-4268 c; x3375 F (Mondays&Fridays)
+1(310) 363-8711 c; x86366 F (Tues thru Thurs)
http://www.decathlonusa.org/IGC/index.html
Previous competition:
http://www.decathlonusa.org/EEADFiesta/index.html

Name: Heiko
Hometown: Pärnu, Eesti
Sent: 01.27 - 6/9 2001

Mul oleks üks ettepanek.
Nimelt võiks kümnevõistluse võistluskalendris kajastada kõik teadaolevad võistlused, mis Eestis toimuvad. Usun, et siin leheküljel käivad paljud need, kes lihtsalt fänniksid kümmet ala ka külavõistlustel.
Muidu aga on decathlon2000 lehekülg endiselt parim kergejõustiku kodulehekülg üldse.
Edu samasvaimus jätkamiseks:)

Name: Phil Vassallo
Homepage: http://www.PhilVassallo.com
Hometown: Parlin, New Jersey, USA
Sent: 03.12 - 21/8 2001

Dudley Ristow makes an interesting point in his 11/8/01 message, where he notes Sebrle's total percentage of personal bests for one decathlon. This viewpoint does account for a certain measure of athletic efficiency.

However, there are problems with looking at this factor. Assume the decathlete's previous bests were relatively weak, totaling 6000 points. Then he improves on his personal on several of his bests and scores a 6,300-point decathlon, which is not so uncommon for up-and-coming decathletes. Then this decathlete would perform at 105%, which is better Sebrle's 98.7%. On the other hand, let's say that someone else's personal bests totaled 9,750, and he scored a 9,250, which is only 94.9% of his total personal bests but a staggering 224 points, or 2.5% better than Sebrle's world record. Wouldn't this performance have more value than Sebrle's 98.7%? I think a far better way to judge decathlon efficiency is to total the all-time personal bests for any decathlete who performed the mark en route to an Olympic- or World-Championship qualifying total score. (I believe that the standard is 8,050 points.) This standard would eliminate shot putters who heave the shot 20 meters but run only 14-second 100 meters, and distance runners who clock 3:40 for the 1,500 but long jump 5 meters.

Janek, if you get a chance, can you get those numbers and add the stat to all the decathletes listed in Decathlon2000?

Name: Dione
Hometown: New CArrolton Md, The Great U.S.A.
Sent: 09.46 - 17/8 2001

What has happen to Big Daddy Dan Obrien? Love the site keep it coming..

Name: Dudley Ristow
Homepage: http://serpico@mweb.co.za
Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa
Sent: 17.33 - 11/8 2001

Previous message ...read 98.67 per cent. Read sometime
ago that the 9000 decathlon was comparable to Bannister
running the first under 4 minute mile. Given a world in which the scorings don't change i wonder if the world will ever see a 10000 decathlon?

Name: Dudley Ristow
Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa
Sent: 17.27 - 11/8 2001

Great win by Dvorak. Also a great PB performance by
Erki Nool who sadly i now think has entered - age-wise - the winter of his decathlons (sorry Erki fans!)with Sebrle holding an edge there over Dvorak. Shared a stat with Janek the other day: take Sebrle's top
decath 9026 divide by this his PBs total of 9147 and you have a performance there of 98.67% of his best. Awesome ! Especially since the Decathlon remains a competition against oneself as much as against your
competitors. Don't think anyone has topped that - with the great Thompson and Hingsen managing 94.98% and 94.73% respectively.

Name: Phil Vassallo
Homepage: http://www.PhilVassallo.com
Hometown: Parlin, New Jersey, United States
Sent: 19.38 - 9/8 2001

Congratulations are in order: to Tomas Dvorak for a third straight world championship and the third-best decathlon score ever; to Erki Nool and Dean Macey for also medalling and for achieving personal bests; and to Decathlon2000, without which the United States would have no immediate, in-depth coverage of this ultimate athletics contest. Keep up the great work, Janek Salmistu!

Name: Tõnis Martinson
Hometown: Kuressaare, Estonia
Sent: 09.35 - 28/7 2001

Tegemist on väga hea saidiga. Statistikuna annaksin viiest viis punkti. Pole nii põhjalikku kümnevõistluse ja üldse spordi saiti varem kohanudki. Edu edaspidiseks!

Name: Ivar
Hometown: Tartu
Sent: 21.16 - 14/7 2001

Kas on teada, millal toimub see aasta Igamehe Kümnevõistlus Pärnus? Või kust võiks selle kohta infot saada?

Name: Jim Rayner
Hometown: Aylesbury, England
Sent: 22.15 - 27/6 2001

Great site for the event. Does any know how to score for the junior men's octathlon. I think they use the decathlon tables for all events expect the 100m Hurdles.Do they use the Ladies tables for this event.

Name: Sergey Oleynick
Hometown: Odessa, Ukraine
Sent: 00.55 - 17/6 2001

Hello Enn Endjärv! I received your letter
& was trying to answer but the Mailer Daemon
says that he cannot find such e-mail adress.
Can you send me another?

Name: Sergey Oleynick
Hometown: Odessa, Ukraine
Sent: 08.27 - 9/6 2001

Thank you very much! This is a great site!
Especially I'm surprised of your operative
work in presenting results during the season!
Keep going this way!