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Beginning in 1920, the IAAF considered, at least, the following criteria for a legitimate decathlon scoring table: [4] (1) The table should reflect the fact that, at higher levels of performance, a unit gain (such as a decrement of 0.01 second in sprint times) is more significant than at lower levels of performance, because of the physiological limitations of the human body.
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (déka, meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are ...
The Decamentathlon comprises a 4-hour test which is split into 10 events (see below). Each event was either a reduced version of the full event when played in competition or a written paper. Each event carries a maximum score of 100 points so the maximum possible score is 1000 points.
In 2008, Van Alphen was a competitor in the decathlon of the Beijing Olympics, but did not finish all the events due to injury. He was just below the 8000-point mark at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting , where he came 13th, [ 2 ] then he set a personal best score of 8072 points to finish fifth at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona . [ 3 ]
The fewest NHL games required to reach the mark was 424, set by Wayne Gretzky.Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 513th game.In a sense, Gretzky was the fastest and the second fastest, as he scored his second 1,000 points (the NHL's only player ever to score 2,000 points in regular-season play) only 433 games after scoring his first 1,000 points.
The first world record in the decathlon was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922. [1] As of 23 June 2012, 36 men's world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. [1] The current world record holder is French national Kevin Mayer with 9126 points. Over the years, athletes have become bigger ...
Decathlon 6723 pts: 2017 Pacific Mini Games: Port Vila, Vanuatu: 1st Pole vault 4.00 m 1st Decathlon 7354 pts Personal bests ... 1000 metres – 2:37.49 (Reims 2011)
The Activision Decathlon is a sports video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. [4] It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. Up to four players compete in the ten different events of a real-life decathlon, either in sequence or individually.