But before dropping out, Torres was a valued member on the academy decathlon, making the track and field coach furious in addition to the many other professors unhappy with her choice to leave the academy.

At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon ; prior to 1981 it was the five-event pentathlon.

Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, his first — and as it turned out, his only — Olympic decathlon.

He never won a national championship in either jump, but he was the 1897 and 1903 AAU champion in the all-around, an event similar to the decathlon.

Inspired by Sri Aurobindo ( 1872 – 1950 ), Chinmoy was encouraged to pursue his athletic abilities-he was a decathlon champion at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, as well as captain of the soccer and volleyball teams, as well as being very enthusiastic about cricket.

He also was 13th in the 1956 decathlon.

His personal best in decathlon was 8627 points ( 1992 ), in Heptathlon 6228 points ( 1997 ), both former national records.

In the Olympics, Mathias's naïveté about the decathlon was exposed.

Cyborg's origin was told via a medical journal read by Dr. Martin Stein saying Cyborg was a promising decathlon athlete until an accident destroyed most of his body and his father replaced part of his body with machine parts.

Paavo Ilmari Yrjölä ( June 18, 1902 in Hämeenkyrö – February 11, 1980 ), also known as the Bear of Hämeenkyrö ( Hämeenkyrön karhu ), was a Finnish track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Olympics in 1928.

Athletics was a family affair as his brother, Iivari Yrjölä, also competed in the decathlon and his son, Matti Yrjölä, was a successful shotputter.

Osborn was the first and, to this day, the only athlete ever to win gold in both the decathlon and an individual event.

His 6 ' 6 " high jump remained the Olympic record for 12 years, while his decathlon score of 7, 710. 775 points also set a new world record, and resulted in worldwide press coverage calling him the “ world ’ s greatest athlete .” The decathlon competition was especially grueling, conducted just four days after the high jump competition, and consisting of ten events run in extremely hot and humid weather conditions over two days at the end of the games.

He won the AAU outdoor title in 1925 and 1926, the indoor title four years in a row, 1923 ‑ 26, and he was the AAU decathlon champion in 1923, 1925, and 1926.

Olympic Athlete Harold Abrahams, who also competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics, and who later wrote and published about the Olympiads of his era, wrote in 1950, “ After Nurmi, I think the outstanding performer was the American, Harold Osborn, who won both the high jump and the decathlon.

He was denied a chance at the world record because the officials lost count of the number of laps, because the official lap-counter was looking the wrong way, being absorbed in the decathlon pole vault.

The differences were that a 3000 metres race was included at the World Athletics Final, while the 10, 000 metres, marathon, combined events ( decathlon and heptathlon ), race walks and relay races were omitted as these events generally did not feature at IAAF outdoor track and field meetings.

Even though Con O ’ Callaghan was taking part in the decathlon it was his younger brother who became the hero.

For the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, two new multi-event disciplines were included, the pentathlon and the decathlon.

The events of the new decathlon differed slightly from the American version.

His 6 ' 6 " high jump remained the Olympic record for 12 years, while his decathlon score of 7, 710. 775 points also set a new world record, and resulted in worldwide press coverage calling him the “ world ’ s greatest athlete ”.

While at Cambridge in March 1932, he decided to try for a place in the Irish Olympic squad and after he ran 54. 2 seconds ( a record ) for the Irish Championship 440 yards ( 402 m ) hurdles in June that year, the authorities agreed to let him run in his new event at the Los Angeles Olympics, where he also came eighth in the decathlon.

Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.

The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events.

" That title has become associated with the decathlon event ever since.

* May – Roman Šebrle breaks a 9. 000 points barrier in decathlon event.

In recent years some women's decathlon competitions have been conducted, consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it, but the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women.

After trying the pole vault, decathlon and 110 m hurdles in his early career Chris has found the gruelling 400 m hurdles to be his number one event.

The long racewalk is the only event currently held for men but not included on the women's programme, with the exception of women taking part in the heptathlon rather than the decathlon.

The athletic triathlon ( an unusual event, held only once and featuring gymnasts competing in the long jump, shot put, and 100 metre dash ) and pentathlon multi-discipline events were phased out in favor of the decathlon, and the medley relay replaced with even-leg relays.

The decathlon is the only thing left open, and Charlie Brown accepts the challenge ( of course after everyone else there refused to take on such a tough event before Charlie Brown showed up ).

These were two events to parallel the multi-event games in athletics of the modern pentathlon and the decathlon.

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football ( collegiate and professional ), and also played professional baseball and basketball.

Familiar events from the Olympic Games such as the pentathlon, heptathlon, decathlon, and modern pentathlon are not usually considered to fall in this category because their individual components are not held back-to-back.

The Amateur Athletic Union held " all around events " from the 1880s and a decathlon first appeared on the Olympic athletics program at the 1904 Games.

This is similar to the procedure for the decathlon in track and field athletics.

The decamentathlon and Pentamind were an attempt to replicate the ideas of the decathlon and pentathlon from athletics.

In his younger days Rafto competed on national level in athletics, and won the Norwegian championships in decathlon in 1947.

* Mykola Avilov — athletics, men's decathlon

* Yuriy Kutsenko — athletics, decathlon men

Note that on senior level pentathlon has been replaced by heptathlon ( for women ) and decathlon ( for men ), although it is still contested during indoor season due to field restrictions and in paralympic competition