Rankings analysis: 26 September 2023
The update to the world decathlon and heptathlon rankings on 26 September 2023 followed the final Combined Events Tour meeting of the season, Decastar in Talence.
Preview: 2023 Decastar decathlon and heptathlon
This weekend at Decastar in Talence, it’s the last chance saloon of the combined events season. Some are on victory tours. Some are seeking to capitalise on breakthroughs earlier in…
Preview: X-Athletics 2023, Clermont-Ferrand
I first attended the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand in January 2019, the year I decided I was going to put my lifelong love for the combined events out into…
World Tour of Decathlon: 2020 in Review
We expected 2020 to be a race for decathletes to achieve the 8350 Olympic Qualifying mark, or to rank in the top 24 in the world. We expected a World…
2021 Decathlon Calendar
The Decathletes of Europe Decathlon 2021 Calendar is here! Thank you to all the photographers who provided permission to use their artwork: Ulf Schiller, Athletix.ch (Simon Ehammer) Nicolas Mennetrey (Axel…
The 2020 January Ten
1 Welcome to 2020 and be sure to use your Decathletes of Europe Decathlon and Heptathlon calendars to help you plan your year. 2 One of the first competitions of…
Review: X-Athletics, Clermont Ferrand
On a crisp, clear afternoon in the shadow of the Puy-de-Dôme, the invigorating smell of burning wood wafted through the picturesque town of Clermont-Ferrand. But it wasn’t the good people…
Preview: X-Athletics Clermont Ferrand
In January 2019 the competitors at the X-Athletics meeting in Clermont Ferrand were vying for places at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. This year, the prize at stake during…
I Can Has 6000 Points?
There’s no humour like niche athletics humour. There’s no meme like an athletics meme. And no country does athletics memes like Estonia does athletics memes. On the Number 35 bus…