- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- Bob Mathias
Robert Bruce Mathias (November 17 1930 - September 2 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and United States Congressman.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ladji Doucouré
Ladji Doucouré is a French athlete of Malian and Senegalese descent. He was a football player and decathlete before specializing in hurdling. He competed in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 110 metres Hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and finished 8th in the final with a result of 13.76 (he fell just before the finish line). Doucouré won the gold medal at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, beating Liu Xiang and veteran Allen Johnson.
- 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, …
- Allen Johnson
Allen K. Johnson (born March 1, 1971) is a hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Washington, D.C., an all-round athlete Johnson attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and excelled at high jump, long jump and decathlon as well as hurdles. Johnson was troubled by injury in 2000 and it was much to his credit that he made the final at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Dmitriy Karpov
Dmitriy Karpov (born July 23, 1981 in Karaganda) is an athlete from Kazakhstan who competes in decathlon and heptathlon (the latter during the winter season). He won the bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2006 he won the decathlon meeting in Talence, finishing with 8438 points.
- Glenn Morris
Glenn Edward Morris (June 18, 1912 - 31 January, 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936. He received the 1936 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. During the Olympics, he had an affair with German documenter Leni Riefenstahl. After winning the gold medal, he ripped open Riefenstahl's shirt and kissed her breasts, in front of the audience of 100,000 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Steve Fritz
Steve Fritz (born 1 November 1967 in Salina, Kansas) is a retired American decathlete.
- Mike Smith
Mike Smith (born September 16, 1967) is a former Canadian world-class decathlete from Kenora, Ontario. He attended Pinecrest Elementary School, Lakewood Intermediate School and Beaver Brae Secondary School. Smith won a silver medal at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in 1986, and won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games of 1990. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he placed 14th after developing tendonitis.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Aleksey Drozdov
Aleksey Drozdov (born December 3 1983, Bryansk) is a Russian decathlete. He won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909.
- Milt Campbell
Milton Gray Campbell (born December 9, 1933 at Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American decathlete of the 1950s. He was a fine all around athlete born in New Jersey in 1933. At Plainfield High School he competed in track and swimming. He then enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington While a student at Plainfield High School, Campbell won a place on the 1952 Olympic team in the decathlon.
- Chris Rawlinson
Chris Rawlinson (born: May 19, 1972 in Rotherham, England) is an all-round athlete who has made his name as a 400 m hurdler. After trying the pole vault, decathlon and 110 m hurdles in his early career Chris has found the grueling 400 m hurdles to be his number one event. Chris holds the world record of 34.48 seconds for the rarely-run 300 m hurdles, which he set at Sheffield, England on June 30, 2002.
- Rudy Bourguignon
Rudy Bourguignon is a French decathlete. He finished ninth at the 1998 World Junior Championships and seventh at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. His personal best result is 8025 points, achieved in September 2005 in Talence.
- Klaus Ambrosch
Klaus Ambrosch is an Austrian decathlete. He finished eighteenth at the 2000 Olympic Games, twelfth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships and twelfth again at the 2002 European Championships. His personal best result was 8122 points, achieved in July 2001 in Götzis. His life partner is the German long jumper Bianca Kappler.
- Brody Jenner
Brody Jenner (born August 21, 1983), a reality television celebrity and model, is the younger son of Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner and actress Linda Thompson. He has two older brothers, Brandon Jenner and Burton Jenner and a sister, Cassandra Marino. He is a stepson of songwriter David Foster and a stepbrother of Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian. Jenner has modeled for Guess and had a short-lived TV career on the Fox reality show, …
- Bob Richards
The Rev. Robert "Bob" Eugene Richards (born February 20 1926 in Champaign, Illinois), known as the "Vaulting Vicar" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events. He competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and also was a decathlete in 1956. The second man to pole vault 15 feet, he was the Olympic pole vault gold medalist in 1952 and 1956 after winning the bronze medal in 1948.
- Harold Osborn
Harold Marion Osborn (April 13, 1899 - April 5, 1975) was a U.S. track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924. <br> <br> <br>
- Ramil Ganiyev
Ramil Ganiyev (born 23 September 1968 of Tatar parents) is a retired Uzbekistani decathlete.