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''This article refers to the sporting contest. For the sports store chain of the same name see [[Decathlon Group]]. For the aircraft see [[American Champion Decathlon]]. For the American academic competition see [[Academic Decathlon]]'' |
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'''Decathlon''' is an [[athletic]] event combining 10 track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all events. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not by the position achieved. The decathlon is contested by male athletes, while female athletes contest the [[Heptathlon]]. |
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Traditionally, the title of "World's Greatest Athlete" has been given to the man who wins the decathlon. This began when King Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe, "You, sir, are the World's Greatest Athlete" after Thorpe won the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. |
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<ref>[http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/08/Sports/World_s_Greatest_Athl.shtml World's Greatest Athlete]</ref> The current holder of the "title" is [[Czech Republic|Czech national]] [[Roman Šebrle]], who has held the title five of the past seven years as well as the highest score ever. |
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The decathlon is a menu of athletic events, testing an individual’s speed, strength, skill, endurance, and personality. The word is of Greek origin |
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(deka [ten] +athlon [contest]). The decathlon includes five events on each of two successive days. The first day schedules the 100-metre run, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 metres. It is a day of speedy movement, explosive power, and jumping ability. Day 2 consists of the 110-metre hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500 metres. The importance of this day is on technique and endurance. |
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==Events== |
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Day one: |
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* [[Sprint (race)#100_m|100 m]] |
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* [[long jump]] |
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* [[Shot put]] |
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* [[high jump]] |
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* [[Sprint (race)#400_m|400 m]] |
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Day two: |
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* [[hurdling|110 m hurdles]] |
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* [[discus throwing]] |
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* [[pole vault]] |
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* [[javelin throwing]] |
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* [[Middle distance track event#1500_m|1500 m]] |
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==Origins== |
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The event sprouted from the ancient game [[pentathlon]]. Pentathlon is a game that was played at the ancient Greek Olympics. Pentathlons involved five games – long jump, discus throw, javelin, sprint and a wrestling match. Introduced in Olympia during 708 BC, the game was extremely popular for many centuries. By the sixth century BC, pentathlons became part of religious games. |
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Gorgos, from Elis town near [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] was a four-time pentathlon winner during the period. Another key player was Lampis, a young [[Sparta|Spartan]] who was the first Olympic winner. Automedes was also a known player of the time. The last recorded game winner was Publius Asklepiades of Corinth in AD 241. Roman Emperor [[Theodosius I]] officially put an end to the game in AD 393 by closing down all the sanctuaries including Olympia. |
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From the mid 1700s various versions of the game emerged. The 1948 Olympics endorsed a new implication to the game. Seventeen-year-old [[Bob Mathias]] emerged as the then decathlon winner, banishing the myth that decathlon was a game for the old and the experienced. Mathias still remains the youngest decathlon sports champion in Olympic history. |
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==Modern standardization== |
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In 1964 the [[International Amateur Athletic Federation]] (IAAF) laid out new scoring tables and brought about some standardization in the game. The 1970s saw the game spreading to the Eastern European nations, mainly the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany. |
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The first decathlon competition was held on a single day, [[October 15]] [[1911]], in [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]]. This was technically not the first decathlon, but one of the first two, as Germany also held a decathlon on the very same day. The Germans contested their events in the same order but with a different scoring table. So, the first decathlon world-record holder was the winner of the first completed meet. [[Hugo Wieslander|Karl Hugo Wieslander]], a Swede, and Karl Ritter von Halt, a German, were announced world-record holders. |
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The decathlon was added to the [[1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympic Games]] in [[Stockholm]]. After experience, the following order was chosen: 100 m run, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 m run on the first day; 110 m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500 m run on the 2nd day. The Swedes also developed a set of scoring tables, based on the 1908 Olympic records. After the 1912 Stockholm Games, the tables were updated to include many new Olympic records. |
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The 1912 Olympic decathlon has become legend because of the presence of [[Jim Thorpe]]. Jim had a terrific 1912 spring track season, winning as many as six events per meet. Thorpe made the U.S. Olympic team in four events: decathlon, pentathlon, high jump, and long jump. The Russian czar donated a Viking ship as a prize for the decathlon champion. Thorpe won the decathlon by almost 700 points over his closet opponent, Hugo Wieslander of Sweden. Because of the unexpected large number of entries, the decathlon was held over 3 days. The first day they held the 100 m run, long jump, and shot put. The second day consisted of the high jump, 400 m run, discus, and 110, hurdles. The third and final day consisted of the pole vault, javelin, and 1500 m run. Thorpe’s 8412 points converts to 6564 points on the current tables, still a very respectable score three quarters of a century later. Swedes: [[Hugo Wieslander]], [[Charles Lomberg]], and [[Gösta Holmér]] captured the next three spots. |
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Thorpe’s score was not beaten for another 15 years. In his absence, there was little decathlon activity for the remainder of the decade. Only in Sweden was the decathlon often contested. The Swedes managed to stay neutral during World War I, which forced the cancellation of the games of Berlin in 1916. Fascinatingly, decathlons were held as part of the Far Eastern Games in 1913, 1915, 1917, and 1919. |
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The average good decathlete competes at most three or four times a year, the less talented even fewer. [[Bill Toomey]]’s nine great efforts back in 1969 were very unusual. The Decathlon is the least common Olympic event. |
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The decathlete does not have to be amazing in any event to be a champion in the 10 events. But he must range from adequate in his weak events to good or better in the other skills. Because he must do well in the four runs and six field events, he has little opportunity to perfect any one event. His training is necessarily different as he strives to improve all techniques, gain strength without losing speed, and acquire the stamina to perform through a competition that lasts anywhere from 4 to 12 hours per day during the Olympics. As a reference point, a performance in the (non-decathlon) world record class would give somewhere between 1100 and 1400 points per event, totaling almost 12500 points for a full record-breaking decathlon. When compared to the 6-7000 points that a good decathlete would usually get, or the world record of slightly over 9000 points, this illustrates how much specialization must be sacrificed to become a good all-round athlete. |
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The decathlon is one of the few events with an arbitrary [[Decathlon scoring tables|scoring system]] and thus the only one in which personal performance and records can be broken as new scoring tables are adopted. Under the original scoring tables adopted in 1912, [[Akilles Järvinen]] of Finland finished second in both the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, but the new scoring system introduced in 1934 gave Jarvinen higher converted totals than both the men he lost to. World-record holder [[Yang Chuan-Kwang|C.K. Yang]] lost 1032 points when his 1963 performance was converted late in 1964 to the new tables first used in the 1964 Olympics. His top rivals lost only 287 and 172 points when their bests were converted, and Yang dropped from the favorite to third on the pre-Games ranking, finishing a disappointing fifth. |
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The arbitrary nature of the [[Decathlon scoring tables|scoring tables]] can work in the opposite direction as well. In 1984, at the [[1984 Summer Olympics|Los Angeles Olympic Games]], Great Britain’s [[Daley Thompson]] missed the world record by one point on then-used 1962/77 tables. The tables were changed a year later and Daley’s score in Los Angeles converted to a best-ever mark. |
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==One hour decathlon== |
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One hour decathlon is a special type of decathlon, in which the athletes have to start the last of ten events (1500 metres) within sixty minutes after the start of the first event. The world record holder is a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] decathlete [[Robert Změlík]], who achieved 7897 points at a meeting in [[Ostrava]], [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1992.<ref> {{cite web |
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| title =Decathlon Records |
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| publisher =DECA - The Decathlon Association |
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| url =http://www.decathlonusa.org/records.html |
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| accessdate =2007-10-21}} </ref> |
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==[[World Record]]s== |
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{| class="prettytable" style="font-size:95%;" |
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! POINTS |
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! ATHLETE |
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! NATION |
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! DATE |
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! PLACE |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| POINTS TABLE SINCE 1920 |
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|align="center"|'''7485''' || [[Aleksander Klumberg-Kolmpere]] || {{flag|EST}} ||align="center"| [[1920-07-05]] || [[Tallinn]] |
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|align="center"|'''7710''' || [[Harold Osborn]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"| [[1924-07-12]] || [[Paris]] |
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|align="center"|'''7820''' || [[Paavo Yrjölä]] || {{flag|FIN}} ||align="center"| [[1926-07-18]] || [[Viipuri]] |
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|align="center"|'''7995''' || [[Paavo Yrjölä]] || {{flag|FIN}} ||align="center"| [[1927-07-17]] || [[Helsinki]] |
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|align="center"|'''8053''' || [[Paavo Yrjölä]] || {{flag|FIN}} ||align="center"| [[1928-08-04]] || [[Amsterdam]] |
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|align="center"|'''8255''' || [[Akilles Järvinen]] || {{flag|FIN}} ||align="center"|[[1930-07-20]] || [[Viipuri]] |
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|align="center"|'''8462''' || [[James Bausch]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1932-08-06]] || [[Los Angeles]] |
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|align="center"|'''8790''' || [[Hans-Heinrich Sievert]] || {{flag|GER}} ||align="center"|[[1934-07-08]] || [[Hamburg]] |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| POINTS TABLE SINCE 1936 |
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|align="center"|'''7900''' || [[Glenn Morris]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1936-08-08]] || [[Berlin]] |
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|align="center"|'''8042''' || [[Bob Mathias]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1950-06-30]] || [[Tulare]] |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| POINTS TABLE SINCE 1952 |
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|align="center"|'''7887''' || [[Bob Mathias]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1952-07-26]] || [[Helsinki]] |
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|align="center"|'''7985''' || [[Rafer Johnson]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1955-06-11]] || [[Kingsburg]] |
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|align="center"|'''8014''' || [[Vassily Kuznetsov]] || {{flag|URS}} ||align="center"|[[1958-05-18]] || [[Krasnodar]] |
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|align="center"|'''8302''' || [[Rafer Johnson]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1958-07-28]] || [[Moscow]] |
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|align="center"|'''8357''' || [[Vassily Kuznetsov]] || {{flag|URS}} ||align="center"|[[1959-05-17]] || [[Moscow]] |
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|align="center"|'''8683''' || [[Rafer Johnson]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1960-07-09]] || [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| POINTS TABLE SINCE 1962 |
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|align="center"|'''8206''' || [[Yang Chuan-Kwang]] || {{flag|TPE}} ||align="center"|[[1963-04-28]] || [[Walnut]] |
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|align="center"|'''8230''' || [[Russ Hodge]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1966-07-24]] || [[Los Angeles]] |
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|align="center"|'''8319''' || [[Kurt Bendlin]] || {{flag|FRG}} ||align="center"|[[1967-05-14]] || [[Heidelberg]] |
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|align="center"|'''8417''' || [[Bill Toomey]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1969-12-11]] || [[Los Angeles]] |
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|align="center"|'''8454''' || [[Nikolay Avilov]] || {{flag|URS}} ||align="center"|[[1972-09-08]] || [[Munich]] |
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|align="center"|'''8524''' || [[Bruce Jenner]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1975-08-10]] || [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] |
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|align="center"|'''8538''' || [[Bruce Jenner]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1976-06-26]] || [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] |
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|align="center"|'''8618''' || [[Bruce Jenner]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1976-07-30]] || [[Montréal]] |
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|align="center"|'''8622''' || [[Daley Thompson]] || {{flag|GBR}} ||align="center"|[[1980-05-15]] || [[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8649''' || [[Guido Kratschmer]] || {{flag|FRG}} ||align="center"|[[1980-06-14]] || [[Filderstadt|Filderstadt-Bernhausen]] |
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|align="center"|'''8704''' || [[Daley Thompson]] || {{flag|GBR}} ||align="center"|[[1982-05-23]] || [[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8723''' || [[Jürgen Hingsen]] || {{flag|FRG}} ||align="center"|[[1982-08-15]] || [[Ulm]] |
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|align="center"|'''8743''' || [[Daley Thompson]] || {{flag|GBR}} ||align="center"|[[1982-09-08]] || [[Athens]] |
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|align="center"|'''8779''' || [[Jürgen Hingsen]] || {{flag|FRG}} ||align="center"|[[1983-06-06]] || [[Filderstadt|Filderstadt-Bernhausen]] |
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|align="center"|'''8798''' || [[Jürgen Hingsen]] || {{flag|FRG}} ||align="center"|[[1984-05-15]] || [[Mannheim]] |
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|align="center"|'''8798''' || [[Daley Thompson]] || {{flag|GBR}} ||align="center"|[[1984-08-09]] || [[Los Angeles]] |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| POINTS TABLE SINCE 1985 |
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|align="center"|'''8891''' || [[Dan O'Brien]] || {{flag|USA}} ||align="center"|[[1992-09-05]] || [[Talence]] |
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|align="center"|'''8994''' || [[Tomáš Dvořák]] || {{flag|CZE}} ||align="center"|[[1999-07-04]] || [[Prague]] |
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|align="center"|'''9026''' || [[Roman Šebrle]] || {{flag|CZE}} ||align="center"|[[2001-05-27]] || [[Götzis]] |
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!colspan="5" align = "center" bgcolor="#ccffcc;"| WOMEN'S WORLD RECORD |
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|align="center"|'''8366''' || [[Austra Skujytė]] || {{flag|LTU}} ||align="center"|[[2005-04-15]] || [[Colombia]] |
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<small>NOTE: ''Skujyte's marks total 6333 using the men's scoring tables''</small> |
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==National records== |
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* As of [[2007-09-06]] |
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|align="center"|'''9026''' |
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|{{flag|CZE}} |
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|[[Roman Šebrle]] |
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|align="center"|[[2001-05-27]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8891''' |
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|{{flag|USA}} |
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|[[Dan O'Brien]] |
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|align="center"|[[1992-09-05]] |
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|align="center"|[[Talence]] |
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|align="center"|'''8847''' |
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|{{flag|GBR}} |
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|[[Daley Thompson]] |
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|align="center"|[[1984-08-09]] |
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|align="center"|[[Los Angeles]] |
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|align="center"|'''8832''' |
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|{{flag|GER}} |
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|[[Jürgen Hingsen]] |
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|align="center"|[[1984-06-09]] |
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|align="center"|[[Mannheim]] |
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|align="center"|'''8815''' |
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|{{flag|EST}} |
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|[[Erki Nool]] |
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|align="center"|[[2001-08-07]] |
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|align="center"|[[Edmonton]] |
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|align="center"|'''8735''' |
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|{{flag|BLR}} |
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|[[Eduard Hämäläinen]] |
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|align="center"|[[1994-05-29]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8730''' |
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|{{flag|FIN}} |
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|[[Eduard Hämäläinen]] |
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|align="center"|[[1997-08-06]] |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|align="center"|'''8725''' |
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|{{flag|KAZ}} |
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|[[Dmitriy Karpov]] |
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|align="center"|[[2004-08-24]] |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|align="center"|'''8709''' |
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|{{flag|UKR}} |
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|[[Aleksander Apaichev]] |
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|align="center"|[[1984-06-03]] |
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|align="center"|[[Neubrandenburg]] |
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|align="center"|'''8698''' |
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|{{flag|RUS}} |
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|[[Grigori Degtyaryov]] |
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|align="center"|[[1984-06-22]] |
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|align="center"|[[Kiev]] |
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|align="center"|'''8644''' |
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|{{flag|JAM}} |
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|[[Maurice Smith (decathlon)|Maurice Smith]] |
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|align="center"|[[2007-09-01]] |
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|align="center"|[[Osaka]] |
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|align="center"|'''8626''' |
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|{{flag|CAN}} |
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|[[Mike Smith (decathlon)|Mike Smith]] |
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|align="center"|[[1996-05-26]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8574''' |
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|{{flag|FRA}} |
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|[[Christian Plaziat]] |
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|align="center"|[[1990-08-29]] |
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|align="center"|[[Split]] |
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|align="center"|'''8573''' |
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|{{flag|ISL}} |
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|[[Jon Arnar Magnusson]] |
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|align="center"|[[1998-05-31]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8566''' |
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|{{flag|POL}} |
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|[[Sebastian Chmara]] |
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|align="center"|[[1998-05-17]] |
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|align="center"|[[Murcia]] |
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|align="center"|'''8554''' |
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|{{flag|HUN}} |
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|[[Attila Zsivóczky]] |
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|align="center"|[[2000-06-04]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8526''' |
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|{{flag|ESP}} |
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|[[Francisco Javier Benet]] |
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|align="center"|[[1998-05-17]] |
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|align="center"|[[Murcia]] |
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|align="center"|'''8490''' |
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|{{flag|AUS}} |
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|[[Jagan Hames]] |
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|align="center"|[[1998-09-18]] |
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|align="center"|[[Kuala Lumpur]] |
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|align="center"|'''8447''' |
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|{{flag|NED}} |
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|[[Robert de Wit]] |
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|align="center"|[[1988-05-22]] |
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|align="center"|[[Eindhoven]] |
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|align="center"|'''8445''' |
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|{{flag|UZB}} |
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|[[Ramil Ganiyev]] |
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|align="center"|[[1997-08-06]] |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|align="center"|'''8437''' |
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|{{flag|LTU}} |
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|[[Ryszard Malachowskis]] |
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|align="center"|[[1988-07-02]] |
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|align="center"|[[Staiki]] |
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|align="center"|'''8403''' |
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|{{flag|SWE}} |
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|[[Henrik Dagård]] |
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|align="center"|[[1994-09-11]] |
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|align="center"|[[Talence]] |
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|align="center"|'''8359''' |
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|{{flag|NZL}} |
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|[[Simon Poelman]] |
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|align="center"|[[1987-03-22]] |
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|align="center"|[[Christchurch]] |
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|align="center"|'''8334''' |
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|{{flag|SUI}} |
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|[[Stephan Niklaus]] |
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|align="center"|[[1983-07-03]] |
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|align="center"|[[Lausanne]] |
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|align="center"|'''8320''' |
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|{{flag|AUT}} |
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|[[Gernot Kellermayr]] |
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|align="center"|[[1993-05-30]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8291''' |
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|{{flag|ARG}} |
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|[[Tito Steiner]] |
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|align="center"|[[1983-06-23]] |
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|align="center"|[[Provo]] |
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|align="center"|'''8290''' |
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|{{flag|CHN}} |
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|[[Qi Haifeng]] |
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|align="center"|[[2005-05-29]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8288''' |
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|{{flag|MDA}} |
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|[[Valeri Kachanov]] |
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|align="center"|[[1980-06-21]] |
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|align="center"|[[Moscow]] |
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|align="center"|'''8271''' |
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|{{flag|LAT}} |
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|[[Janis Karlivans]] |
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|align="center"|[[2007-05-27]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|align="center"|'''8266''' |
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|{{flag|BRA}} |
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|[[Pedro da Silva Filho]] |
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|align="center"|[[1987-04-23]] |
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|align="center"|[[Walnut]] |
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|align="center"|'''8257''' |
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|{{flag|CUB}} |
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|[[Yordanis García]] |
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|align="center"|[[2007-09-01]] |
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|align="center"|[[Osaka]] |
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|align="center"|'''8213''' |
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|{{flag|POR}} |
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|[[Mario Anibal Ramos]] |
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|align="center"|[[2001-07-01]] |
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|align="center"|[[Kaunas]] |
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|align="center"|'''8199''' |
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|{{flag|BUL}} |
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|[[Atanas Andonov]] |
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|align="center"|[[1981-06-21]] |
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|align="center"|[[Sofia]] |
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|align="center"|'''8169''' |
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|{{flag|ITA}} |
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|[[Beniamino Poserina]] |
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|align="center"|[[1996-10-06]] |
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|align="center"|[[Formia]] |
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|align="center"|'''8160''' |
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|{{flag|NOR}} |
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|[[Benjamin Jensen]] |
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|align="center"|[[1999-08-01]] |
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|align="center"|[[Greve]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''8069''' |
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|{{flag|GRE}} |
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|[[Prodromos Korkizoglou]] |
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|align="center"|[[2000-07-02]] |
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|align="center"|[[Ibach]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''8057''' |
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|{{flag|YUG}} |
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|[[Saša Karan]] |
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|align="center"|[[1990-07-01]] |
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|align="center"|[[Ljubljana]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''8047''' |
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|{{flag|BEL}} |
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|[[Hans van Alphen]] |
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|align="center"|[[2007-08-13]] |
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|align="center"|[[Bangkok]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''8023''' |
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|{{flag|TUN}} |
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|[[Hamdi Dhouibi]] |
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|align="center"|[[2005-08-10]] |
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|align="center"|[[Helsinki]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''8009''' |
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|{{flag|TPE}} |
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|[[Yang Chuan-Kwang]] |
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|align="center"|[[1963-04-28]] |
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|align="center"|[[Walnut]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7995''' |
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|{{flag|JPN}} |
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|[[Munehiro Kaneko]] |
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|align="center"|[[1993-05-14]] |
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|align="center"|[[Shanghai]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7994''' |
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|{{flag|DEN}} |
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|[[Lars Warming]] |
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|align="center"|[[1988-06-19]] |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7934''' |
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|{{flag|ALG}} |
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|[[Ahmed Mahour Bacha]] |
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|align="center"|[[1985-07-09]] |
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|align="center"|[[Algiers]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7882''' |
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|{{flag|IRL}} |
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|[[Carlos O'Connell]] |
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|align="center"|[[1988-06-05]] |
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|align="center"|[[Emmitsburg]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7846''' |
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|{{flag|TJK}} |
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|[[Igor Sobolevski]] |
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|align="center"|[[1982-07-16]] |
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|align="center"|[[Leningrad]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7834''' |
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|{{flag|ROM}} |
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|[[Vasile Bogdan]] |
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|align="center"|[[1975-06-08]] |
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|align="center"|[[Paris]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7824''' |
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|{{flag|KOR}} |
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|[[Kim Kun-Woo]] |
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|align="center"|[[2006-05-26]] |
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|align="center"|[[Gongju]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7802''' |
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|{{flag|CYP}} |
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|[[Georgios Andreou]] |
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|align="center"|[[2000-08-12]] |
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|align="center"|[[Volos]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7799''' |
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|{{flag|SVK}} |
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|[[Peter Soldos]] |
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|align="center"|[[2001-06-10]] |
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|align="center"|[[Arles]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7777''' |
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|{{flag|BAR}} |
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|[[Victor Houston (athlete)|Victor Houston]] |
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|align="center"|[[1997-08-06]] |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7757''' |
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|{{flag|TUR}} |
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|[[Alper Kasapoğlu]] |
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|align="center"|[[1996-04-19]] |
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|align="center"|[[Azusa]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7756''' |
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|{{flag|GEO}} |
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|[[Juri Dyachkov]] |
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|align="center"|[[1968-06-16]] |
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|align="center"|[[Tbilisi]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7734''' |
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|{{flag|VEN}} |
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|[[Douglas Fernández]] |
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|align="center"|[[1983-08-27]] |
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|align="center"|[[Caracas]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7730''' |
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|{{flag|QAT}} |
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|[[Ahmad Hassan Moussa]] |
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|align="center"|[[2004-06-27]] |
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|align="center"|[[Ratingen]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7704''' |
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|{{flag|PUR}} |
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|[[Luiggy Llanos]] |
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|align="center"|[[2003-08-06]] |
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|align="center"|[[Santo Domingo]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7698''' |
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|{{flag|SLO}} |
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|[[Damjan Sitar]] |
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|align="center"|[[2006-05-28]] |
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|align="center"|[[Maribor]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7674''' |
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|{{flag|RSA}} |
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|[[Joepie Loots]] |
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|align="center"|[[1983-04-16]] |
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|align="center"|[[Bloemfontein]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7667''' |
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|{{flag|IRI}} |
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|[[Hadi Sepehrzad]] |
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|align="center"|[[2007-07-28]] |
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|align="center"|[[Amman]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7659''' |
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|{{flag|CRO}} |
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|[[Joško Vlašić]] |
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|align="center"|[[1983-06-25]] |
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|align="center"|[[Izmir]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7632''' |
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|{{flag|LCA}} |
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|[[Dominic Johnson]] |
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|align="center"|[[1998-03-27]] |
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|align="center"|[[Tucson]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|'''7614''' |
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|{{flag|MEX}} |
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|[[Alejandro Cárdenas]] |
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|align="center"|[[1996-05-11]] |
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|align="center"|[[Medellín]] |
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|} |
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==Seasons best== |
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* As of [[2007-09-06]] |
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |
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|align="center"|[[2007 in sports|2007]] |
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|align="center"|'''8676''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Talence]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2006 in sports|2006]] |
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|align="center"|'''8677''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Bryan Clay]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2005 in sports|2005]] |
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|align="center"|'''8732''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Bryan Clay]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Helsinki]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2004 in sports|2004]] |
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|align="center"|'''8893''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2003 in sports|2003]] |
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|align="center"|'''8807''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2002 in sports|2002]] |
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|align="center"|'''8800''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2001 in sports|2001]] |
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|align="center"|'''9026''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[2000 in sports|2000]] |
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|align="center"|'''8900''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Tomáš Dvořák]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1999 in sports|1999]] |
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|align="center"|'''8994''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Tomáš Dvořák]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Prague]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1998 in sports|1998]] |
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|align="center"|'''8755''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Uniondale]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1997 in sports|1997]] |
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|align="center"|'''8837''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Tomáš Dvořák]]|CZE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1996 in sports|1996]] |
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|align="center"|'''8824''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Atlanta]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1995 in sports|1995]] |
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|align="center"|'''8695''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Göteborg]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1994 in sports|1994]] |
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|align="center"|'''8735''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Eduard Hämäläinen]]|BLR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Götzis]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1993 in sports|1993]] |
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|align="center"|'''8817''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Stuttgart]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1992 in sports|1992]] |
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|align="center"|'''8891''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Talence]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1991 in sports|1991]] |
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|align="center"|'''8812''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dan O'Brien]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Tokyo]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1990 in sports|1990]] |
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|align="center"|'''8574''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Christian Plaziat]]|FRA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Split]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1989 in sports|1989]] |
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|align="center"|'''8549''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Dave Johnson (athletics)|Dave Johnson]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Houston]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1988 in sports|1988]] |
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|align="center"|'''8512''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Christian Plaziat]]|FRA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Talence]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1987 in sports|1987]] |
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|align="center"|'''8680''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Torsten Voss]]|GDR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Rome]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1986 in sports|1986]] |
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|align="center"|'''8811''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Daley Thompson]]|GBR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Stuttgart]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1985 in sports|1985]] |
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|align="center"|'''8559''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Torsten Voss]]|GDR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Dresden]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1984 in sports|1984]] |
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|align="center"|'''8847''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Daley Thompson]]|GBR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Los Angeles]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1983 in sports|1983]] |
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|align="center"|'''8825''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Jürgen Hingsen]]|FRG}} |
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|align="center"|[[Bernhausen]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1982 in sports|1982]] |
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|align="center"|'''8774''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Daley Thompson]]|GBR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Athens]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1981 in sports|1981]] |
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|align="center"|'''8334''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Rainer Pottel]]|GDR}} |
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|align="center"|[[Birmingham]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1980 in sports|1980]] |
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|align="center"|'''8667''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Guido Kratschmer]]|FRG}} |
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|align="center"|[[Bernhausen]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1979 in sports|1979]] |
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|align="center"|'''8476''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Guido Kratschmer]]|FRG}} |
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|align="center"|[[Krefeld]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1978 in sports|1978]] |
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|align="center"|'''8493''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Guido Kratschmer]]|FRG}} |
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|align="center"|[[Bernhausen]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1977 in sports|1977]] |
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|align="center"|'''8400''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Aleksandr Grebenyuk]]|URS}} |
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|align="center"|[[Riga]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1976 in sports|1976]] |
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|align="center"|'''8634''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Bruce Jenner]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Montreal]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1975 in sports|1975]] |
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|align="center"|'''8429''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Bruce Jenner]]|USA}} |
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|align="center"|[[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1974 in sports|1974]] |
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|align="center"|'''8229''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Ryszard Skowronek]]|POL}} |
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|align="center"|[[Montreal]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1973 in sports|1973]] |
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|align="center"|'''8163''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Lennart Hedmark]]|SWE}} |
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|align="center"|[[Bonn]] |
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|- |
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|align="center"|[[1972 in sports|1972]] |
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|align="center"|'''8466''' |
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|{{flagathlete|[[Nikolay Avilov]]|URS}} |
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|align="center"|[[Munich]] |
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|} |
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==Other multiple event contests== |
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*[[Biathlon]] |
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*[[Duathlon]] |
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*[[Triathlon]] |
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*[[Quadrathlon]] |
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*[[Pentathlon]] |
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*[[Modern pentathlon]] |
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*[[Heptathlon]] |
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*[[Octathlon]] (primarily a youth or junior event although logistical problems have seen senior octathlons contested, for example at the [[2007 South Pacific Games]]) |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.decathlon2000.ee/eng/10athlon.php?art=884 Decathlon points calculator] |
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* [http://www.geocities.com/mdetting/sports/decathlon-points-formula.html Decathlon points formula] |
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*[http://www.hexham-meeting.org Hexham International Decathlon Meeting (since 1997)] |
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*[http://www.teamdecathlon.com Team Decathlon website] |
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Revision as of 00:58, 5 February 2008
This article refers to the sporting contest. For the sports store chain of the same name see Decathlon Group. For the aircraft see American Champion Decathlon. For the American academic competition see Academic Decathlon
Decathlon is an athletic event combining 10 track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all events. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not by the position achieved. The decathlon is contested by male athletes, while female athletes contest the Heptathlon.
Traditionally, the title of "World's Greatest Athlete" has been given to the man who wins the decathlon. This began when King Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe, "You, sir, are the World's Greatest Athlete" after Thorpe won the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. [1] The current holder of the "title" is Czech national Roman Šebrle, who has held the title five of the past seven years as well as the highest score ever.
The decathlon is a menu of athletic events, testing an individual’s speed, strength, skill, endurance, and personality. The word is of Greek origin (deka [ten] +athlon [contest]). The decathlon includes five events on each of two successive days. The first day schedules the 100-metre run, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 metres. It is a day of speedy movement, explosive power, and jumping ability. Day 2 consists of the 110-metre hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500 metres. The importance of this day is on technique and endurance.
Events
Day one:
Day two:
Origins
The event sprouted from the ancient game pentathlon. Pentathlon is a game that was played at the ancient Greek Olympics. Pentathlons involved five games – long jump, discus throw, javelin, sprint and a wrestling match. Introduced in Olympia during 708 BC, the game was extremely popular for many centuries. By the sixth century BC, pentathlons became part of religious games.
Gorgos, from Elis town near Olympia was a four-time pentathlon winner during the period. Another key player was Lampis, a young Spartan who was the first Olympic winner. Automedes was also a known player of the time. The last recorded game winner was Publius Asklepiades of Corinth in AD 241. Roman Emperor Theodosius I officially put an end to the game in AD 393 by closing down all the sanctuaries including Olympia.
From the mid 1700s various versions of the game emerged. The 1948 Olympics endorsed a new implication to the game. Seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias emerged as the then decathlon winner, banishing the myth that decathlon was a game for the old and the experienced. Mathias still remains the youngest decathlon sports champion in Olympic history.
Modern standardization
In 1964 the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) laid out new scoring tables and brought about some standardization in the game. The 1970s saw the game spreading to the Eastern European nations, mainly the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany.
The first decathlon competition was held on a single day, October 15 1911, in Gothenburg, Sweden. This was technically not the first decathlon, but one of the first two, as Germany also held a decathlon on the very same day. The Germans contested their events in the same order but with a different scoring table. So, the first decathlon world-record holder was the winner of the first completed meet. Karl Hugo Wieslander, a Swede, and Karl Ritter von Halt, a German, were announced world-record holders.
The decathlon was added to the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. After experience, the following order was chosen: 100 m run, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 m run on the first day; 110 m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500 m run on the 2nd day. The Swedes also developed a set of scoring tables, based on the 1908 Olympic records. After the 1912 Stockholm Games, the tables were updated to include many new Olympic records.
The 1912 Olympic decathlon has become legend because of the presence of Jim Thorpe. Jim had a terrific 1912 spring track season, winning as many as six events per meet. Thorpe made the U.S. Olympic team in four events: decathlon, pentathlon, high jump, and long jump. The Russian czar donated a Viking ship as a prize for the decathlon champion. Thorpe won the decathlon by almost 700 points over his closet opponent, Hugo Wieslander of Sweden. Because of the unexpected large number of entries, the decathlon was held over 3 days. The first day they held the 100 m run, long jump, and shot put. The second day consisted of the high jump, 400 m run, discus, and 110, hurdles. The third and final day consisted of the pole vault, javelin, and 1500 m run. Thorpe’s 8412 points converts to 6564 points on the current tables, still a very respectable score three quarters of a century later. Swedes: Hugo Wieslander, Charles Lomberg, and Gösta Holmér captured the next three spots.
Thorpe’s score was not beaten for another 15 years. In his absence, there was little decathlon activity for the remainder of the decade. Only in Sweden was the decathlon often contested. The Swedes managed to stay neutral during World War I, which forced the cancellation of the games of Berlin in 1916. Fascinatingly, decathlons were held as part of the Far Eastern Games in 1913, 1915, 1917, and 1919.
The average good decathlete competes at most three or four times a year, the less talented even fewer. Bill Toomey’s nine great efforts back in 1969 were very unusual. The Decathlon is the least common Olympic event.
The decathlete does not have to be amazing in any event to be a champion in the 10 events. But he must range from adequate in his weak events to good or better in the other skills. Because he must do well in the four runs and six field events, he has little opportunity to perfect any one event. His training is necessarily different as he strives to improve all techniques, gain strength without losing speed, and acquire the stamina to perform through a competition that lasts anywhere from 4 to 12 hours per day during the Olympics. As a reference point, a performance in the (non-decathlon) world record class would give somewhere between 1100 and 1400 points per event, totaling almost 12500 points for a full record-breaking decathlon. When compared to the 6-7000 points that a good decathlete would usually get, or the world record of slightly over 9000 points, this illustrates how much specialization must be sacrificed to become a good all-round athlete.
The decathlon is one of the few events with an arbitrary scoring system and thus the only one in which personal performance and records can be broken as new scoring tables are adopted. Under the original scoring tables adopted in 1912, Akilles Järvinen of Finland finished second in both the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, but the new scoring system introduced in 1934 gave Jarvinen higher converted totals than both the men he lost to. World-record holder C.K. Yang lost 1032 points when his 1963 performance was converted late in 1964 to the new tables first used in the 1964 Olympics. His top rivals lost only 287 and 172 points when their bests were converted, and Yang dropped from the favorite to third on the pre-Games ranking, finishing a disappointing fifth.
The arbitrary nature of the scoring tables can work in the opposite direction as well. In 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Great Britain’s Daley Thompson missed the world record by one point on then-used 1962/77 tables. The tables were changed a year later and Daley’s score in Los Angeles converted to a best-ever mark.
One hour decathlon
One hour decathlon is a special type of decathlon, in which the athletes have to start the last of ten events (1500 metres) within sixty minutes after the start of the first event. The world record holder is a Czech decathlete Robert Změlík, who achieved 7897 points at a meeting in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1992.[2]
NOTE: Skujyte's marks total 6333 using the men's scoring tables
National records
- As of 2007-09-06
Seasons best
- As of 2007-09-06
Other multiple event contests
- Biathlon
- Duathlon
- Triathlon
- Quadrathlon
- Pentathlon
- Modern pentathlon
- Heptathlon
- Octathlon (primarily a youth or junior event although logistical problems have seen senior octathlons contested, for example at the 2007 South Pacific Games)
References
- ^ World's Greatest Athlete
- ^ "Decathlon Records". DECA - The Decathlon Association. Retrieved 2007-10-21.