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Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Men's decathlon

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Men's decathlon
at the Commonwealth Games

The men's decathlon event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1]

Daley Thompson won the gold medal by a whopping 844 points. This included winning six events including all five events on day one of the competition. His lowest placing for any event in this decathlon was fifth in the javelin throw.

Results

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Wind for 100m: Heat 1: +1.6 m/s, Heat 2: +2.3 m/s

Rank Athlete Nationality 100m LJ SP HJ 400m 110m H DT PV JT 1500m Points Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Daley Thompson  England 10.50w 8.11w 14.43 2.07 47.85 14.92 41.68 4.80 56.60 4:25.78 8467
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Peter Hadfield  Australia 10.98w 7.28 13.48 1.92 49.24 15.59 46.52 4.00 60.80 4:54.54 7623
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alan Drayton  England 11.03w 7.15 11.85 1.95 50.17 14.86 40.60 4.40 57.22 4:54.11 7484
4 Graeme Watson  England 10.77w 7.31w 13.29 1.89 49.73 16.97 38.04 3.80 54.90 4:44.73 7261
5 Panayiotis Zeniou  Cyprus 11.38 6.93 13.31 1.75 50.80 16.26 37.38 4.20 56.54 4:20.48 7201
6 Rob Town  Canada 11.59 6.47 13.33 1.92 52.40 16.40 46.62 3.60 62.20 4:32.30 7138
7 Robert Sadler  New Zealand 11.42 6.87 12.28 1.95 51.87 15.93 36.66 4.40 42.10 4:20.10 7117
8 Charles Kokoyo  Kenya 11.32 7.27 9.58 1.89 50.32 16.40 33.90 3.00 65.00 4:32.80 6775
9 Mike Bull  Northern Ireland 11.60 6610
10 Tony Verhoeven  Canada 11.64 6453
11 Dunstan Campbell  Grenada 5515
Zenon Smiechowski  Canada 11.64w DNF
Craig Considine  Australia 11.68w 6.75 13.31 DNS DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2018-02-27.