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Below a list of all national champions in the Men's Decathlon event in track and field from several countries since 1980. Australia. 1980: Peter Hadfield;
The United States Academic Decathlon National Championship, first held in 1982, pits winners at the state level against each other for a national title. [1] The Academic Decathlon consists of 10 events: art, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, math, music, science, social science, and speech. [ 2 ]
President Barack Obama with the Academic Decathlon team from Moorpark High School, the 2009 National Champions. Winning teams have often been invited to meet the President of the United States. [126] [127] The National Championship pits the winning school from each state against all the others for an overall title.
The Sanger school with a high school enrollment of about 160 home-schooled students captured the Division V championship at the U.S. Academic Decathlon Nationals in Pittsburgh. ... home a national ...
At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon; before 1981 it was the five-event pentathlon. [8] However, in 2001, the IAAF (now World Athletics) approved scoring tables for a women's decathlon; the current world record holder is Austra Skujytė of Lithuania, with 8,358. [9]
Students from Granada Hills Charter on Saturday won the U.S. Academic Decathlon, the ninth time the San Fernando Valley school has captured the title.
The British decathlon champions and the British heptathlon champions covers three competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, the preceding AAA Championships (1928-2006) and the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships.
This is a list of the NCAA Division I outdoor champions in combined track and field events – the decathlon for men, and the heptathlon for women. International javelin design regulations changed in 1986, so all javelin throws before that year were using an older, more aerodynamic javelin.