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1980: Georg Werthner 1981: Sepp Zeilbauer 1982: Georg Werthner 1983: Wolfgang Spann 1984: Georg Werthner 1985: Jürgen Mandl 1986: Georg Werthner 1987: Michael Arnold 1988: Georg Werthner
Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [1] 150 m (bend) 15.16 (+1.4 m/s) Yupun Abeykoon Sri Lanka 24 April 2022 Perseo Trophy Rieti, Italy [2] 200 m: 19.88 (+0.9 m/s) Xie Zhenye China 21 July 2019 Diamond League: London, United Kingdom [3] 300 m: 32.21 Kenji Fujimitsu Japan 12 April 2015 Izumo Meet Izumo, Japan 400 m: 43.93 Yousef Ahmed Masrahi Saudi Arabia
The athletics events at the Games are divided into four groups: track events (including sprints, middle- and long-distance running, hurdling and relays), field events (including javelin, discus, hammer, pole vault, long and triple jumps), road events and combined events (the heptathlon and decathlon).
0–9. Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon; Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon; Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
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 ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's decathlon event if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard is 8350 points.
In the beginning, before the Olympics became a global event, sweeps were more common amongst fewer competing countries and larger numbers of entries from a single country. After the 1908 Olympics, a sweep became an increasingly treasured status symbol of national dominance in an event. 1964 was the first Olympiad to have no sweeps.
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.