The Decathlon Pioneers
“Training for the decathlon as a woman can get lonely at times,” says AnnaLee McGregor, “but the Women’s Decathlon Association Championships is such a great opportunity to compete with other…
Review: European Championships decathlon, Munich 2022
There was something about the set of Niklas Kaul’s jaw as he concluded the penultimate event of the 2022 European Championships decathlon in the Munich Olympastadion. This was a different…
Review: World Championships decathlon, Eugene 2022
In a field that included the Olympic champion, the world champion and the world record holder, in the home of Ashton Eaton’s first world record a decade earlier in 2012,…
Review: World Championships heptathlon, Eugene 2022
On paper, the dynamics of the World Championships heptathlon might look like what you would expect. The Olympic gold and silver medallists repeating their competition from Tokyo. A bronze medal…
Provisional suspension for Garrett Scantling
Today the news broke from USADA that the 2022 decathlon world leader, Garrett Scantling, was provisionally suspended due to whereabouts failures, explaining his absence from the USA World Championships team…
Preview: World Championships, Oregon 2022
After a gap of 2 years and 9 months we’re back at a World Championships, this time at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. The decathlon in Doha in 2019 was…
“I want them to break my record” – Austra Skujyte, decathlon world record-holder
There are some athletes for whom a second name is not required to be instantly recognisable in their field. Ashton. Carolina. Roman. Nafi. Daley. And Austra. Austra Skujytė took her…
Götzis 2022 Preview
DECATHLON Where else to start in talking about the world’s best decathlon but with Damian Warner: Olympic champion, Mr 9000 and the undisputed King of Götzis. Warner’s legend in Vorarlberg…
Review: US Trials and Ratingen
In the small hours of Friday night (for European readers) the mighty US Championships decathlon and heptathlon got underway in Fayetteville. As the sun started to set on Sunday evening…
Preview: Ratingen and US Championships 2022
Hot on the heels of Multistars last weekend in Grosseto, the Ratingen Mehrkampf meeting is taking place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th May. Ratingen is the German championships in…