Progress on field sizes for 2025 World Indoors
Over two years after Fredrik Samuelsson first wrote to World Athletics, there is finally some cause for hope on combined events field sizes at world indoor and world outdoor championships.…
Field sizes to increase at 2023 Euro Indoor Champs in Istanbul
Following Fredrik Samuelsson’s letter on field sizes to World Athletics (WA) and European Athletics (EA) in March 2021, the President and Chief Executive of European Athletics have now written in…
2022 Decathlon Calendar
The Decathletes of Europe Decathlon 2022 Calendar is here! Check out the 2021 Decathlon, 2020 Decathlon, 2020 Heptathlon and 2019 Decathlon editions. Thank you to all the photographers who provided…
Field Sizes: Update
In March this year, hundreds of combined eventers came together as one voice to express their concerns at the downward trend in field sizes at major outdoor championships; from over…
A Letter to World and European Athletics, 22 March 2021
To: Sebastian Coe, World Athletics President, and Dobromir Karamarinov, European Athletics Interim President Dear colleagues We are writing to you to express our concerns about the size of fields for…
Multi-eventers call for bigger fields at major championships
Over 250 multieventers, including World and Olympic medallists, have supported a call for larger fields in the decathlon, heptathlon and pentathlon at major international championships. The direction of travel on…
Review: Frankfurt, Apeldoorn, Prague, Växjö and Linz, 13-14 February 2021
Another weekend, another multitude of multievent action. This weekend, the action included competitions in Linz (Austria), Växjö (Sweden), Prague (Czech Republic), Apeldoorn (Netherlands) and Frankfurt (Germany). LINZ Anticipation was focused…
The Magic of Götzis
This article was first published on Decathlonpedia on 12 May 2019 In two weeks’ time the 45th Hypomeeting will take place in Götzis. Here we bring you five different perspectives…
The February Ten
Every month, I share a digest of ten decathlon-related facts, figures and features. Here’s my pick of the best of February 2019. 1 The first day of February was marked…
Fredrik Samuelsson, European Indoors, Glasgow 2019
The 1000m in Glasgow provided its fair share of Day 2 drama in the heptathlon. From Jiri Sykora’s reappearance on the start line after his pole vault injury, to Tim…