Review: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting, 2022
Hans Christian Hausenberg led the heptathlon in Tallinn last weekend (5-6 February) from the moment he crossed the finish line in the 60m, to the moment he completed the 1000m.…
Preview: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting, 2022
It’s a quick journey from the X-Athletics meeting in central France to the snowy streets of Tallinn for the second big combined events meeting of the year. Estonia is one…
Preview: Tallinn and Magglingen Combined Events Meetings 2021
On the weekend of 8-9 August 2020, several decathlons took place across Europe. As Risto Lillemets was becoming the 19th Estonian to exceed 8000 points in Tallinn, 1500 miles away…
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…
Review: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting
A Ukrainian pentathlon clean sweep, the Estonian you might not have expected on the podium, a refocusing of the energy originally intended for the World Indoor Championships, and a message…
Preview: Tallinn Combined Events Meeting
The postponement of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing meant that some other meeting was going to have to bear the heavy responsibility of being the highlight meeting of the…
Uno, due, tre…osm, devět, deset
The weekend of the 32nd meeting of Multistars started with words of welcome in Italian, but by Sunday evening the words of celebration were Czech. One scenic venue. Two vastly…
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…