Dan O'Brien

Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien 2009
Full name	Daniel Dion O'Brien
nation	United States
birthday	July 18, 1966
place of birth	Portland, Oregon
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8891 points
society	Foot Locker Athletic Club
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 3 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 Decathlon World championships gold Tokyo 1991 Decathlon gold Stuttgart 1993 Decathlon gold Gothenburg 1995 Decathlon Indoor world championships gold Toronto 1993 Heptathlon

Daniel Dion ("Dan") O'Brien (born July 18, 1966 in Portland , Oregon ) is a former American decathlete . He is an Olympic champion and three-time world champion.

Dan O'Brien is considered the best decathlete of the 1990s. In his specialty, he became world champion three times in a row in Tokyo in 1991 , in Stuttgart in 1993 and in Gothenburg in 1995 . Before the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , where he would have been the big favorite, O'Brien sensationally failed in the US trials, the internal American qualification. The reason for this was three failed attempts at the pole vault . A few weeks later, O'Brien set a new world record in the decathlon with 8891 points at the Décastar in Talence . At the 1996 Olympics , O'Brien rehabilitated and won the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta.

In 2012 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Official website of Dan O'Brien
• Dan O'Brien in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dan O'Brien in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of Dan O'Brien on the USA Track & Field website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Trials and Error - Decathlete Dan O'brien Blew His Shot At The 1992 Olympics, But He's Determined Not To Let History Repeat Itself , SI.com