Preview: Olympic decathlon, Paris 2024
It’s going to take 9000 points to win the Olympic decathlon. Since Leo Neugebauer broke Jürgen Hingsen’s German decathlon record in June last year. Since Pierce LePage scored within 100…
Preview: Euro Champs decathlon, Rome 2024
In Olympic year, the European Championships decathlon in Rome brings the decathletes of Europe together in a reprise of the great battles of the last five years. More lies ahead,…
Preview: Ratingen 2023
DECATHLON In the 2022 edition of the Ratingen combined events meeting, the decathlon was dominated by Simon Ehammer, as the Swiss broke the world decathlon long jump best for the…
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…
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…
Götzis 2021: Preview
And we’re back! After a break in 2020 because of The Pandemic, we return to the Mösle-Stadion for the world’s best multi-event competition. The organisers have left no stone unturned…
Niklas Kaul: “Once you’re doing decathlon, you don’t want to do anything else”
This article was first published on the IAAF website on 1 August 2019. This time last year Niklas Kaul received an unexpected phone call. It was a call that, a…
The Enigma of Kevin and the Unit of Arthur
To the discerning Decathletes of Europe fan, the Berlin European Championships were all about whether Kevin Mayer would pull out a big score, after teasing us with individual PBs throughout…