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Niklas Kaul set a World record with U20 implements of 8435 points when winning the decathlon at the European Championships in Grosseto 2017. He became the youngest decathlon World champion in history at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in …

20 years Decathlon 2000... and who’s responsible for the joy it gave us? An open letter!

Simon Ehammer is the Swiss national record holder in decathlon as well as in heptathlon

Markus Rooth won gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Espoo 2023. He is the Norwegian decathlon record holder. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, the first gold medal for Norway in this event since 1920.

The first man over 9000 points in history - with an anniversary

Daley Thompson is a legend! He dominated the decathlon for nearly a decade, winning two Olympic gold medals, two European Championships gold medals and also became decathlon World champion. Between 1979 and 1987, he went undefeated in all …

Roman Šebrle became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9000 points, setting the World Record at 9026 points (Götzis 2001), succeeding his compatriot, Tomaš Dvorak, who had scored 8994 points two years earlier (Prague 1999).

Guido Kratschmer won an Olympic silver medal at the Montreal Olympic Games (1976).

Mykola Avilov won an Olympic gold medal at the München Olympic Games (1972).