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The world decathlon under-20 record using senior implements is held by Torsten Voss, of East Germany, who scored 8,397 points in Erfurt, East Germany, from 6–7 July 1982. This was the last record to be ratified because it is no longer a World Athletics under-20 record event.
The Decamentathlon and Pentamind were an attempt to replicate the ideas of the decathlon and pentathlon from athletics. Unlike the Pentamind which has a free format allowing competitors to use different events to each other, the Decamentathlon has a fixed format. The Decamentathlon comprises a 4-hour test which is split into 10 events (see below).
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.
Philbrook scored over 1000 points in the event by breaking the previous Olympic record (listed as 41.46 metres in the 1912 official report, though actually only 40.89 set by Martin Sheridan in 1908). Since the discus throw event had been held 2 days prior to the decathlon and Armas Taipale had far exceeded the old record, Philbrook's mark was ...
It is the first edition to feature the combined events in decathlon and pentathlon, as well as a cross-country race. This is also the only edition to feature two-handed throws (shot, discus and javelin), in which athlete would throw three times with one hand and three with the other with the best scores for each hand constituting the final result.
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 ]
Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan: 17th Decathlon 7943 pts: 2022 World Championships: Eugene, United States: 13th Decathlon 8107 pts: ... 1000 metres – 3:00.68 (Lille 2011)
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)