- Dean Macey
Dean Macey (born: December 12, 1977 in Rochford, Essex) is an English decathlete. Dean started out in athletics as a triple jumper but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal F.C. as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995. Macey's major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in the Olympic Stadium, Seville, …
- Bryan Clay
Bryan Clay (born January 3, 1980 in Austin, Texas) is an American decathlete. He is the current world champion. Bryan Clay, is an African American. He graduated from James B. Castle High School (Kaneohe, Hawaii) in 1998. He competed in track and field during high school, coached by Dacre Bowen and Martin Hee. He attended Azusa Pacific University, competing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and coached by Kevin Reid.
- Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Thompson, CBE (born July 30, 1958 in Worcester Park), known commonly as Daley Thompson, is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. Thompson is of Nigerian and Scottish heritage. Thompson's best score in the decathlon was 8847 points, set in the 1984 Olympic competition – a world record that stood until 1992, …
- Dan O'Brien
Daniel ("Dan") Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966 in Portland, Oregon) is a former American decathlete. He was deemed one of the best decathlon athletes of the 1990s. In 1992 he set a world record of 8,891 points, but failed to qualify for that year's Olympics when he failed to clear a height in the pole vault during the decathlon in the U.S. Olympic Trials. Dan O'Brien grew up as an adopted child in an Irish-American family in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
- Tom Pappas
Tom Pappas (born September 6, 1976 in Azalea, Oregon) is an American track & field decathlete. Pappas won the gold medal at the 2003 World Championships held outside Paris, France, and was rated number 1 in the world that year by Track & Field News. He is a four-time US champion (2000, 2002, 2003, 2006) and was the 1999 NCAA champion while attending the University of Tennessee. He finished fifth at the 2000 Olympic decathlon, …
- Bruce Jenner
William Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete. An excellent high school athlete, Bruce Jenner attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, transferring from Sleepy Hollow High School in Tarrytown, New York. (Years later, the stadium there was to be named after him, …
- Roman Šebrle
Roman Šebrle is an athlete from the Czech Republic. Originally a high jumper, he competes in decathlon and heptathlon for team TJ Dukla Praha. He is a world record holder in decathlon - in 2001 in Götzis he became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9,000 points, setting the record at 9,026 points, succeeding his compatriot, Tomáš Dvořák, who had scored 8,994 points two years earlier. After placing second in the decathlon of the 2000 Summer Olympics, …
- Rafer Johnson
Rafer Lewis Johnson (born August 18, 1935) is a former American decathlete. Johnson was born in Hillsboro, Texas, but moved to Kingsburg, California at age 9. In high school, he played on the school's football, baseball and basketball teams. As a versatile athlete, he was attracted to the decathlon after seeing double Olympic Champion Bob Mathias compete and told his coach "I could have beaten most of those guys in that meet". He competed in his first meet in 1954, …
- Erki Nool
Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician. He is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest. Nool won the title after the competition referee decided to over-rule a discus judge who had red-flagged his last and only valid attempt due to alleged step-out.
- Dave Johnson
David ("Dave") Allen Johnson (born April 7, 1963 in North Dakota) is a former decathlete from the United States, who grew up in Missoula, Montana. As a child he attended C. S. Porter Elementary School and later attended Sentinel and Big Sky high schools. Dave's family moved to Corvallis, Oregon in 1980 and he attended Crescent Valley High School, graduating in 1981. Dave was involved in a series of petty thefts as a teenager, …
- Chris Huffins
Chris Huffins (born 15 April 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an athlete from the United States who competed in the field of Decathlon. He is currently the Director and Head Coach of the Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country programs at the University of California. He married Monique Parker in 1997 but has not yet earned a degree from the University of California. Huffins is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, …
- Bob Mathias
Robert Bruce Mathias (November 17 1930 - September 2 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and United States Congressman.
- Paul Terek
Paul Anthony Terek (born 20 October 1979 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American decathlete. He finished twelfth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, 21st at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and thirteenth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. His personal best in decathlon is 8312 points, achieved in July 2004 in Sacramento. In 2006, Paul participated in the Japanese televised obstacle course Sasuke, …
- Kip Janvrin
Kip Janvrin (born 8 July 1965 in Guthrie Center, Iowa) is a former American decathlete. Janvrin is a native of Panora, Iowa and is currently the Co-Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
- Tom Waddell
Dr. Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987) was the gay American sportsman who founded the an international sporting event called the Gay Games, which was named such after the USOC sued Dr. Waddell for using the word "Olympic" in the orginal name "Gay Olympics". Tom was a football player and gymnast when he was in college at Springfield College, Massachusetts. He served as a military doctor afterward. He represented USA in decathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics, …
- Romain Barras
Romain Barras (born August 1 1980 in Calais) is a French decathlete. He finished thirteenth at the 2004 Olympics, seventh at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, eighth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and sixth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. At the Universiade he finished fifth in 2001 and first in 2003, the latter in a personal best score of 8196 points.
- Jim Thorpe
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (May 28 1888–March 28 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball.
- Steve Fritz
Steve Fritz (born 1 November 1967 in Salina, Kansas) is a retired American decathlete.
- Andrei Krauchanka
Andrei Krauchanka is a Belarusian decathlete. His personal best score is 8617 points, achieved in May 2007 in Götzis.
- Kristjan Rahnu
Kristjan Rahnu (born 29 August 1979 in Kohila) is an Estonian decathlete.
- Aleksandr Pogorelov
Aleksandr Pogorelov is a Russian decathlete. He finished 4th in the decathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He also competed in the 2004 Olympics, and finished fifth in the decathlon at the 2005 World Athletics Championships.
- Lev Lobodin
Lev Lobodin (born April 1, 1969 in Voronezh) is a decathlete from Russia, having changed nationality from Ukraine at the end of 1996. His best achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.
- Bill Toomey
William Anthony ("Bill") Toomey (born January 10, 1939) was the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion, for the United States. He was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1968. He received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States in 1969. He married Olympic gold-medal winning British athlete Mary Rand in 1969 and they had two daughters, Samantha and Sarah. They were divorced after 22 years of marriage.
- Eduard Hämäläinen
Eduard Hämäläinen is a retired decathlete from Finland. He originally competed for the Soviet Union and then Belarus after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His great-grandparents emigrated from Finland. During his career he won three silver medals at World Championships.
- Christian Schenk
Christian Schenk won the gold medal in the decathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea. Schenk also won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. He missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona because of an injury and came fourth in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart. His personal best was 8500 points, achieved in August 1993 in Stuttgart.
- Christian Plaziat
Christian Plaziat (born 28 October 1963 in Lyon) is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European Championships, the European Indoor Championships and the World Indoor Championships.
- Siegfried Wentz
Siegfried Wentz is a former German track and field athlete. In the 1980's and until 1990 he represented West Germany and belonged to the world elite in the decathlon. His most notable result was winning the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. At that event he scored 8412 points, his results for each of the events were 10.99s - 7.11m - 15.87m - 2.09m - 47.78m - 14.35s - 46.60m - 4.50m - 67.68m - 4:33.96 Min.
- Frank Busemann
Frank Busemann (born February 26, 1975 in Recklinghausen) is a former German decathlete. Busemann started his career as a 110 m hurdler and was junior world champion in this discipline in 1994. After his surprising silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with his personal best of 8706 points he became one of Germany's most popular sportsmen. He also was elected "German Sportsmen of the Year". At the World Championships of the following year Busemann became third.
- Chiel Warners
Chiel Mathijs Warners (born 2 April 1978 in Harderwijk) is a Dutch decathlete.
- Pascal Behrenbruch
Pascal Behrenbruch (born January 19 1985) is a German decathlete. He finished 5th in the decathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Jürgen Hingsen
Jürgen Hingsen is a former (West) German decathlete who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s. He came second in the Olympic decathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles behind Daley Thompson. In 1984 Hingsen also set his personal best at 8832 points which was temporarily a world record and is still a German record.
- Laurent Hernu
Laurent Hernu (born 22 August 1976 in Creil) is a French decathlete.
- Indrek Kaseorg
Indrek Kaseorg (born 16 December 1967 in Tartu) is a retired Estonian decathlete.
- Torsten Voss
Torsten Voss is a German track and field athlete and bobsledder. His biggest success was when he won the world title in the decathlon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome as a representative for East Germany. He achieved a personal best score of 8680 points and was chosen as the East German sportsman of the year. In 1988 in the Seoul Summer Olympic Games he won the silver medal behind fellow East German, Christian Schenk.
- Guido Kratschmer
Guido Kratschmer (born 10 January, 1953) is a West German athlete who competed mainly in the Decathlon. He competed for a West Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the Decathlon where he won the Silver medal.
- Sebastian Chmara
Sebastian Chmara (born November 21, 1971 in Bydgoszcz) is a former decathlete from Poland who became world indoor champion in |1999 and European indoor champion in 1998 (both in heptathlon, as decathlon is unsuitable for indoor contests).
- Stefan Drews
Stefan Drews (born February 12 1979) is a German decathlete. He finished 7th in the decathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He also competed in the 2004 Olympics, where he ranked 28th.
- Alain Blondel
Alain Blondel (born 7 December 1962 in Petit-Quevilly) is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European Indoor Championships once.
- Indrek Turi
Indrek Turi (born 13 July 1981 in Tallinn) is an Estonian decathlete.
- Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid (born 6 July 1970) is a German decathlete. He finished fifth at the 1994 European Championships, seventh at the 1997 World Championships, ninth at the 2000 Olympic Games and seventh at the 2001 World Championships. His personal best result was 8485 points, achieved in July 2000 in Ratingen.