1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	29./30. July 1976
Medalist Bruce Jenner ( USA )   Guido Kratschmer ( FRG )   Mykola Awilow ( URS )

The men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was played on July 29 and 30, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part, of which 23 finished the competition. A decathlon table modified in 1971 was used as the basis for calculating the scores.

The American Bruce Jenner became Olympic champion . He won with a new world record number of points ahead of Guido Kratschmer from the Federal Republic of Germany and the 1972 Olympic champion , Mykola Awilow from the Soviet Union.

In addition to the medalist Kratschmer, Claus Marek and Eberhard Stroot also competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Marek was tenth, Stroot was 21st.
The GDR was represented by Siegfried Stark , who was sixth. Georg Werthner and Sepp Zeilbauer took part
from Austria . Zeilbauer stopped the competition after the eighth discipline, Werthner reached 16th place. Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	Bruce Jenner ( USA )	8538 points (8454)	Eugene , USA	June 26, 1976
Olympic record	Mykola Awilow ( Soviet Union )	8454 points (8466)	Decathlon of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 8, 1972

Remarks:

• The scores result from the decathlon table developed in 1971. The number of points is given in brackets that would have been obtained using the current ranking table from 1985.
• According to today's rating system, Mykola Awilow would still have the world record with 8466 points before the competition of these games, because Bruce Jenner's performance from his decathlon in June 1976 would not have been enough to surpass Awilow. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. The scoring was based on the points table from 1971.

Time schedule

July 29, 10 a.m .: 100-meter run
July 29, 11 a.m .: Long jump
July 29, 1 p.m .: Shot put
July 29, 2.30 p.m .: High jump
July 29, 5.30 p.m .: 400-meter run

July 30, 9 a.m .: 110-meter hurdles
July 30, 10 a.m .: Discus throw
July 30, 12 p.m .: Pole vault
July 30, 3.30 p.m .: Javelin throw
July 30, 6.20 p.m .: 1500-meter run

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

Note: In the shot put, discus and javelin throw as well as in the long jump, the best distance is printed in bold. In the high jump and pole vault, the last valid attempt is printed in bold.

Attendees

1972 Olympic champion Mykola Avilov, USSR, bronze medal winner

28 athletes from 16 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Mykola Awilow	Soviet Union
Runald Beckman	Sweden
Philippe Bobin	France
Fred Dixon	United States
Gilles Gémise-Fareau	France
Regis Ghesquière	Belgium
Alexander Grebenyuk	Soviet Union
Lennart Hedmark	Sweden
Bruce Jenner	United States
Ryszard Katus	Poland
Guido Kratschmer	BR Germany
Johannes Lahti	Finland
Heikki Leppänen	Finland
Roger Lespagnard	Belgium
Leonid Lytwynenko	Soviet Union
Claus Marek	BR Germany
Luděk Pernica	Czechoslovakia
Raimo Pihl	Sweden
Fred Samara	United States
Eltjo Schutter	Netherlands
Ryszard Skowronek	Poland
Siegfried Stark	GDR
Tito Steiner	Argentina
Eberhard Stroot	BR Germany
Elías Sveinsson	Iceland
Daley Thompson	Great Britain
Georg Werthner	Austria
Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria

Disciplines

100 meter run

Silver medalist Guido Kratschmer from the Federal Republic of Germany in a photo from 1981

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kratschmer 10.66 s 890 02 Stroot 10.75 s 867 03 Thompson 10.79 s 857 04th Marek 10.81 s 852 05 Samara 10.85 s 841 06th Lahti 10.89 s 831 07th Pihl 10.93 s 822 08th Dixon 10.94 s 819 Jenner 10 Beckman 11.02 s 799 Skowronek 12 Katus 11.06 s 790 13 Bobin 11.07 s 787 14th Zeilbauer 11.08 s 7835 15th Grebenjuk 11.10 s 780 16 Lytwynenko 11.12 s 775 17th Gémise-Fareau 11.15 s 768 18th Schutter 11.17 s 763 19th Lespagnard 11.21 s 754 20th Avilov 11.23 s 749 21st Werthner 11.31 s 731 22nd Strong 11.35 s 721 23 Hedmark 11.36 s 719 24 Steiner 11.37 s 717 25th Pernica 11.40 s 710 26th Sveinsson 11.51 s 685 27 Ghesquière 11.59 s 668 28 Leppänen 11.71 s 641

Long jump

Three German athletes formed the top. Guido Kratschmer was 25 points ahead of Eberhard Stroot, who in turn was 45 points ahead of Claus Marek. Bruce Jenner was sixth, 105 points behind Kratschmer, while Mykola Awilow was eighth, 115 points behind.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Avilov 7.52 m x 7.45 m 925 02 Kratschmer 7.39 m x 7.13 m 899 03 Stroot 7.07 m 7.34 m 7.38 m 897 04th Lahti 7.28 m 7.21 m 6.98 m 877 05 Zeilbauer 7.06 m 7.25 m 7.27 m 875 06th Skowronek 7.16 m 7.26 m 7.16 m 873 07th Marek 7.01 m 6.95 m 7.23 m 867 08th Jenner 7.05 m 7.07 m 7.22 m 865 09 Thompson 7.03 m 7.06 m 7.19 m 859 10 Bobin 6.70 m 7.09 m 7.14 m 848 Werthner 7.01 m 7.14 m x 12 Schutter 7.12 m 6.89 m 7.07 m 844 13 Hedmark 6.68 m 6.89 m 7.09 m 838 14th Samara 6.93 m 6.86 m 7.08 m 836 15th Katus 7.04 m 6.83 m x 828 16 Ghesquière 6.95 m 6.98 m 6.99 m 818 Pihl 6.97 m 6.99 m 6.95 m 18th Strong 6.79 m 6.98 m 6.86 m 816 19th Pernica 6.97 m 6.79 m 6.89 m 814 20th Beckman 6.89 m 6.87 m 6.95 m 810 21st Lespagnard 6.93 m 6.91 m 6.91 m 806 22nd Lytwynenko 6.63 m 6.92 m x 804 23 Dixon 6.72 m 6.91 m 6.69 m 802 24 Gémise-Fareau 6.58 m 6.74 m x 765 25th Steiner x 6.56 m 6.73 m 763 26th Grebenjuk 6.23 m 6.46 m 6.53 m 721 27 Leppänen 6.48 m x - 710 28 Sveinsson 6.21 m 6.37 m 4.82 m 686

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kratschmer 1789 02 Stroot 1764 03 Marek 1719 04th Thompson 1716 05 Lahti 1708 06th Jenner 1684 07th Samara 1677 08th Avilov 1674 09 Skowronek 1672 10 Zeilbauer 1660 11 Pihl 1640 12 Bobin 1635 13 Dixon 1621 14th Katus 1618 15th Beckman 1609 16 Schutter 1607 17th Lytwynenko 1579 Werthner 19th Lespagnard 1560 20th Hedmark 1557 21st Strong 1537 22nd Gémise-Fareau 1533 23 Pernica 1524 24 Grebenjuk 1501 25th Ghesquière 1486 26th Steiner 1480 27 Sveinsson 1371 28 Leppänen 1351

Shot put

The Finn Heikki Leppänen did not participate in this third discipline.
Guido Kratschmer kept the lead, Bruce Jenner worked his way up to second and was 69 points behind. Behind Jenner was the winner of the shot put, the Swede Raimo Pihl, in third place. Eberhard Stroot had slipped into fourth place, followed by Mykola Awilow, the Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer and the Finn Johannes Lahti. Claus Marek had dropped to eighth place.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Pihl 15.55 m 15.04 m x 821 02 Jenner 14.96 m 14.58 m 15.35 m 809 03 Strong 14.32 m 14.79 m 15.08 m 793 04th Hedmark 15.00 m 14.98 m x 789 05 Zeilbauer 13.92 m 14.36 m 14.91 m 783 06th Avilov 14.66 m x 14.81 m 777 07th Kratschmer 14.42 m x 14.74 m 773 08th Grebenjuk 14.69 m x 14.63 m 770 09 Dixon x 14.30 m 14.44 m 755 10 Lytwynenko 13.69 m x 14.20 m 740 11 Ghesquière x 14.15 m x 737 12 Bobin 14.12 m 13.42 m 13.69 m 736 13 Sveinsson x 13.05 m 13.94 m 724 14th Steiner 13.85 m x x 719 15th Skowronek 13.59 m 13.46 m 13.74 m 712 16 Lahti 12.91 m 13.66 m 13.22 m 706 17th Pernica 13.33 m 13.58 m x 701 18th Beckman 13.25 m 13.54 m 13.33 m 699 19th Werthner 13.01 m 13.49 m x 696 20th Katus 13.15 m 13.48 m 13.48 m 695 Stroot 13.09 m 13.31 m 13.48 m 22nd Marek 13.22 m 13.33 m 13.42 m 692 23 Lespagnard 13.17 m 13.24 m x 680 24 Thompson 12.90 m 13.10 m 12.45 m 671 25th Samara 13.00 m 12.37 m x 665 26th Gémise-Fareau 12.10 m 11.84 m x 606 27 Schutter x 11.20 m 11.74 m 582

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kratschmer 2562 02 Jenner 2493 03 Pihl 2461 04th Stroot 2459 05 Avilov 2451 06th Zeilbauer 2443 07th Lahti 2414 08th Marek 2411 09 Thompson 2387 10 Skowronek 2384 11 Dixon 2376 12 Bobin 2371 13 Hedmark 2346 14th Samara 2342 15th Strong 2330 16 Lytwynenko 2319 17th Katus 2313 18th Beckman 2308 19th Werthner 2275 20th Grebenjuk 2271 21st Lespagnard 2240 22nd Pernica 2225 23 Ghesquière 2223 24 Steiner 2199 25th Schutter 2189 26th Gémise-Fareau 2139 27 Sveinsson 2095

high jump

Mykola Awilow achieved the highest height in the high jump in the Olympic decathlon with 2.14 m .
Guido Kratschmer stayed at the top. Jenner was 69 points behind but slipped to third. The high jump winner Awilow had moved up to second place with his performance and was 18 points behind Kratschmer, 51 points ahead of Jenner.

Classification space Surname 1.70 m 1.80 m 1.84 m 1.88 m 1.91 m 1.94 m 1.97 m 2.00 m 2.03 m 2.06 m 2.08 m 2.10 m 2.12 m 2.14 m 2.16 m Points 01 Avilov - - - - O - O O O O xo xo xo xx o xxx 975 02 Dixon - - - xo - O - xxo x o xxx 882 Jenner - - O - xo - O O xx o xxx Kratschmer - - - O - O - O xx o xxx Zeilbauer - - - O - O xo xxo x o xxx 06th Lahti - - - - - O - O xxx 857 Pihl - O O O O xo xo x o xxx 08th Grebenjuk - O O O O O O xxx 831 09 Gémise-Fareau - - O O O O xxx 804 Lespagnard O O O O O O xxx Pernica - O O O O O xxx Sveinsson - - O O O x o xxx 13 Bobin O O xo xo xx o xxx 779 Ghesquière - O O xo xx o xxx Hedmark O O O xo xx o xxx Lytwynenko O O O O x o xxx Marek - O - xo O xxx Skowronek - O O O O xxx Strong O O O O x o xxx Thompson O O O xo xx o xxx 21st Beckman - O O xx o xxx 751 Stroot - O xo O xxx Werthner - xo O O xxx 24 Katus - O O xxx 716 Samara - - O xxx Steiner O O xx o xxx 27 Schutter O O xxx 680 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kratschmer 3444 02 Avilov 3426 03 Jenner 3375 04th Zeilbauer 3325 05 Pihl 3318 06th Lahti 3271 07th Dixon 3258 08th Stroot 3210 09 Marek 3190 10 Thompson 3166 11 Skowronek 3163 12 Bobin 3150 13 Hedmark 3125 14th Strong 3109 15th Grebenjuk 3102 16 Lytwynenko 3098 17th Beckman 3059 18th Samara 3058 19th Lespagnard 3044 20th Katus 3029 21st Pernica 3029 22nd Werthner 3026 23 Ghesquière 3002 24 Gémise-Fareau 2943 25th Steiner 2915 26th Sveinsson 2899 27 Schutter 2869

400 meter run

Eltjo Schutter, Netherlands

The discipline was carried out in four runs.
Guido Kratschmer was 18 points ahead of Mykola Awilow. Bruce Jenner was 17 points behind Awilow.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Marek 47.12 s 943 02 Jenner 47.51 s 923 03 Stroot 47.61 s 918 04th Skowronek 47.59 s 903 05 Pihl 47.97 s 898 06th Thompson 48.15 s 889 07th Avilov 48.16 s 889 08th Kratschmer 48.19 s 889 09 Dixon 48.38 s 880 10 Lytwynenko 48.44 s 880 11 Zeilbauer 48.94 s 856 12 Lespagnard 48.99 s 852 13 Strong 49.14 s 847 14th Grebenjuk 49.21 s 842 15th Lahti 49.34 s 838 16 Bobin 49.79 s 814 17th Hedmark 49.80 s 814 18th Katus 49.87 s 810 19th Samara 50.07 s 801 20th Werthner 50.08 s 801 21st Gémise-Fareau 50.09 s 801 22nd Steiner 50.30 s 792 23 Ghesquière 50.32 s 792 24 Pernica 50.37 s 788 25th Beckman 50.66 s 775 26th Sveinsson 51.77 s 728 27 Schutter 2: 20.43 min 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kratschmer 4333 02 Avilov 4315 03 Jenner 4298 04th Pihl 4216 05 Zeilbauer 4181 06th Dixon 4138 07th Marek 4133 08th Stroot 4128 09 Lahti 4109 10 Skowronek 4066 11 Thompson 4055 12 Lytwynenko 3978 13 Bobin 3964 14th Strong 3956 15th Grebenjuk 3944 16 Hedmark 3939 17th Lespagnard 3896 18th Samara 3859 19th Katus 3839 20th Beckman 3834 21st Werthner 3827 22nd Pernica 3817 23 Ghesquière 3794 24 Gémise-Fareau 3744 25th Steiner 3707 26th Sveinsson 3627 27 Schutter 2869

110 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in five runs.
The Dutch Eltjo Schutter did not take part in this sixth discipline.
With his best time, Mykola Awilow took the lead from Guido Kratschmer, who was now 26 points behind him. Bruce Jenner was in third place, 90 points behind the leader. In fourth place, 121 points behind Jenner, the Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer had worked his way up.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Avilov 14.20 s 939 02 Katus 14.51 s 902 03 Kratschmer 14.58 s 895 04th Lytwynenko 14.71 s 880 05 Skowronek 14.75 s 876 06th Hedmark 14.79 s 871 07th Jenner 14.84 s 866 08th Samara 14.87 s 862 Zeilbauer 10 Gémise-Fareau 14.89 s 860 11 Bobin 14.96 s 853 12 Grebenjuk 15.05 s 843 13 Pernica 15.07 s 841 14th Marek 15.19 s 828 15th Stroot 15.23 s 824 16 Werthner 15.26 s 821 17th Lahti 15.31 s 816 18th Beckman 15.62 s 785 19th Strong 15.65 s 782 20th Lespagnard 15.67 s 780 21st Ghesquière 15.69 s 778 22nd Pihl 15.81 s 767 23 Steiner 15.82 s 766 24 Thompson 15.98 s 750 25th Sveinsson 16.19 s 731 26th Dixon 18.11 s 574

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 5254 02 Kratschmer 5228 03 Jenner 5164 04th Zeilbauer 5043 05 Pihl 4983 06th Marek 4961 07th Stroot 4952 08th Skowronek 4942 09 Lahti 4925 10 Lytwynenko 4858 11 Bobin 4817 12 Hedmark 4810 13 Thompson 4805 14th Grebenjuk 4787 15th Katus 4741 16 Strong 4738 17th Samara 4721 18th Dixon 4712 19th Lespagnard 4676 20th Pernica 4658 21st Werthner 4648 22nd Beckman 4619 23 Gémise-Fareau 4604 24 Ghesquière 4572 25th Steiner 4473 26th Sveinsson 4358

Discus throw

Mykola Awilow was able to maintain his lead. However, he was only nine points ahead of Bruce Jenner, who was now in second place in front of Guido Kratschmer. Kratschmer was 15 points behind the American.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Jenner 50.04 m 49.16 m 49.16 m 873 02 Grebenjuk 46.58 m x 47.16 m 821 03 Hedmark 45.98 m 46.42 m x 808 04th Lytwynenko x 43.46 m 46.26 m 805 05 Dixon 45.82 m 45.15 m 45.66 m 797 06th Kratschmer 43.12 m 45.70 m 44.86 m 794 07th Avilov 41.56 m 45.60 m 43.76 m 792 08th Strong 45.46 m 43.40 m 45.48 m 790 09 Skowronek 44.74 m 45.34 m x 788 10 Pihl x 38.74 m 44.30 m 768 11 Zeilbauer 42.32 m 44.26 m 42.96 m 768 12 Beckman x 42.40 m x 732 13 Katus 41.74 m 42.28 m 41.46 m 730 14th Sveinsson 41.98 m 41.62 m 39.20 m 724 15th Ghesquière x 39.94 m 40.64 m 698 16 Samara 36.98 m 40.54 m x 696 17th Steiner 40.26 m 38.54 m x 691 18th Pernica 39.60 m 40.22 m x 690 19th Gémise-Fareau 40.12 m 39.64 m 39.32 m 688 20th Bobin 37.98 m 39.22 m 39.84 m 682 21st Stroot 38.70 m 39.82 m 35.72 m 682 22nd Lespagnard 37.82 m x 38.64 m 658 23 Lahti 38.46 m 38.52 m x 656 24 Marek 34.60 m 35.66 m 38.40 m 654 25th Thompson 36.36 m 35.70 m 34.46 m 612 26th Werthner 31.66 m 35.58 m x 596

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 6046 02 Jenner 6037 03 Kratschmer 6022 04th Zeilbauer 5811 05 Pihl 5751 06th Skowronek 5730 07th Lytwynenko 5663 08th Stroot 5634 09 Hedmark 5618 10 Marek 5615 11 Grebenjuk 5608 12 Lahti 5581 13 Strong 5528 14th Dixon 5509 15th Bobin 5499 16 Katus 5471 17th Samara 5417 Thompson 19th Beckman 5351 20th Pernica 5348 21st Lespagnard 5334 22nd Gémise-Fareau 5292 23 Ghesquière 5270 24 Werthner 5244 25th Steiner 5164 26th Sveinsson 5082

Pole vault

The Belgian Régis Ghesquière and the Icelandic Elías Sveinsson did not compete in this eighth discipline.
At 4.90 m, Philippe Bobin achieved the best height so far in the pole vault as part of the Olympic decathlon.
Bruce Jenner now took the lead with a 63 point lead over Guido Kratschmer, who had also overtaken Mykola Awilow. Kratschmer himself was 13 points ahead of Awilow. Ryszard Skowronek, Raimo Pihl and Leonid Lytwynenko were now behind the Soviet athlete. Josef Zeilbauer slipped to 22nd place due to his unsuccessful attempts.

Classification space Surname 3.60 m 3.80 m 4.00 m 4.10 m 4.20 m 4.30 m 4.40 m 4.45 m 4.50 m 4.55 m 4.60 m 4.65 m 4.70 m 4.75 m 4.80 m 4.90 m 5.05 m Points 01 Bobin - - - - - - - - O - - - xxo - O x o xxx 1028 02 Jenner - - - - - O - - - - xo - xxo - x o xxx 1005 Skowronek - - - - - - O - - - xo - - - O xxx 04th Strong - - - - xo - O - - O - O - xxx 969 05 Gémise-Fareau - - - - xo - O - xxo - xx o - xxx 957 Kratschmer - - - - O - O - O - O - xxx Lytwynenko - - O - O - O xxo - xo xx o - x- 08th Katus - - - - - xo - - xx o - - xxx 932 09 Avilov - - O - xo - xo O - xxx 920 10 Pernica - - - - O - O - - - xxx 909 Pihl - - xxo xo - xxo xx o xxx 12 Hedmark - - O - - xx o xxx 884 Marek - - xxo - - O xxx Samara - - - - xo x o - - xxx 15th Lahti - - - - O xxx 859 Lespagnard - - - - xx o - xxx Thompson O O O xo O xxx 18th Werthner - - - O xxx 832 19th Beckman - O O xxx 807 Grebenjuk - - xx o - xxx 21st Steiner - O xxx 754 - Dixon - - - - - xxx 0 Stroot xxx Zeilbauer - - - - xxx Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Jenner 7042 02 Kratschmer 6979 03 Avilov 6966 04th Skowronek 6735 05 Pihl 6660 06th Lytwynenko 6620 07th Bobin 6527 08th Hedmark 6502 09 Marek 6499 10 Strong 6497 11 Lahti 6440 12 Grebenjuk 6415 13 Katus 6403 14th Samara 6301 15th Thompson 6276 16 Pernica 6257 17th Gémise-Fareau 6249 18th Lespagnard 6193 19th Beckman 6158 20th Werthner 6076 21st Steiner 5918 22nd Zeilbauer 5811 23 Stroot 5634 24 Dixon 5509

Javelin throw

The Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer did not compete in this ninth discipline.
With 78.58 m Lennart Hedmark achieved the best javelin throw so far in the Olympic decathlon.
The order remained unchanged: Bruce Jenner ahead of Guido Kratschmer and Mykola Awilow. Jenner had extended his lead to 88 points, Kratschmer was 61 points ahead of Awilow. Raimo Pihl was fourth ahead of Ryszard Skowronek, Hedmark was sixth ahead of the GDR athlete Siegfried Stark.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Hedmark 69.46 m 78.58 m 75.32 m 974 02 Pihl x 77.34 m x 961 03 Strong 74.18 m x - 926 04th Jenner 61.26 m 68.12 m 68.52 m 862 05 Grebenjuk 66.70 m 68.42 m 63.88 m 861 06th Kratschmer 47.10 m 66.32 m 64.94 m 837 07th Stroot x 57.36 m 65.10 m 823 08th Werthner 62.98 m 61.22 m 64.08 m 810 09 Avilov 62.28 m 59.16 m 58.20 m 789 10 Skowronek 61.48 m 62.22 m 61.84 m 788 11 Lahti 61.72 m 61.62 m 61.68 m 782 12 Beckman 55.62 m 56.22 m 58.14 m 738 13 Katus 57.54 m 57.06 m x 731 14th Dixon - 45.64 m 55.96 m 711 15th Pernica x 52.72 m 55.26 m 702 16 Lytwynenko x 53.66 m x 681 17th Samara 53.60 m x 47.70 m 680 18th Marek 52.32 m x 51.58 m 664 19th Gémise-Fareau 48.44 m x 52.04 m 660 20th Bobin x x 50.74 m 643 21st Steiner 48.02 m 49.74 m - 629 22nd Lespagnard 46.40 m 43.46 m x 584 23 Thompson x 33.08 m 45.18 m 566

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Jenner 7904 02 Kratschmer 7816 03 Avilov 7755 04th Pihl 7621 05 Skowronek 7523 06th Hedmark 7476 07th Strong 7423 08th Lytwynenko 7301 09 Grebenjuk 7276 10 Lahti 7222 11 Bobin 7170 12 Marek 7163 13 Katus 7134 14th Samara 6981 15th Pernica 6959 16 Gémise-Fareau 6909 17th Beckman 6896 18th Werthner 6886 19th Thompson 6842 20th Lespagnard 6777 21st Steiner 6547 22nd Stroot 6457 23 Dixon 6220

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Bruce Jenner was on the world record course before the last discipline , which he had set himself a month earlier with 8538 points. In order to improve his record, he had to run a time of under 4:23 min in the 1500 meter run.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Lytwynenko 4: 11.41 min 724 02 Jenner 4: 12.61 min 714 03 Pernica 4: 22.30 min 643 04th Strong 4: 24.93 min 625 05 Avilov 4: 26.26 min 614 06th Werthner 4: 27.43 min 607 07th Stroot 4: 27.48 min 606 08th Marek 4: 27.84 min 604 09 Pihl 4: 28.76 min 597 10 Kratschmer 4: 29.09 min 595 11 Thompson 4: 29.55 min 592 12 Skowronek 4: 29.89 min 590 13 Gémise-Fareau 4: 31.81 min 577 14th Lespagnard 4: 36.67 min 545 15th Dixon 4: 38.49 min 534 16 Grebenjuk 4: 39.62 min 527 17th Samara 4: 40.21 min 523 18th Steiner 4: 43.16 min 505 19th Hedmark 4: 44.28 min 498 20th Lahti 4: 45.90 min 489 21st Katus 4: 47.00 min 482 22nd Beckman 4: 57.28 min 423 23 Bobin 4: 59.65 min 410

Course and result

Date: July 29-30, 1976, pm

American Bruce Jenner, who had broken the world record twice in August 1975 and June of the Olympic season, was the favorite . But also the 1972 Olympic champion , Mykola Awilow, who four years earlier had been at a similar level of performance as Jenner now, should not be underestimated. Another candidate for a medal was Ryszard Skowronek from Poland, who had become European champion in 1974 ahead of Yves Leroy, who did not run here, and Guido Kratschmer.

The competition was at a very high level. After the 100-meter run and the long jump , the first two disciplines, the three German athletes Kratschmer, Eberhard Stroot and Claus Marek were in the lead. Jenner was sixth, 105 points behind, while Awilow was eighth, 115 points behind. Even after the shot put , Kratschmer stayed ahead, Jenner was now 69 points behind. The best shot putter, Raimo Pihl from Sweden, was third, behind him were Awilow, the Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer and the Finn Johannes Lahti. In the high jump Avilov played out his great strength and jumped over 2.14 m. He was now 18 points behind Kratschmer and 51 points ahead of Jenner, who was now third. After the 400-meter run , the last discipline of the first day, everything came closer together. There were just 224 points between first and ninth place. Kratschmer led with 4,333 points ahead of Awilow and Jenner, who were only slightly behind with 16 and 20 points respectively.

Awilow was the fastest over the 110 meter hurdles . With 14.58 seconds, Kratschmer was a bit behind his possibilities. The Soviet decathlete now took the lead just ahead of Kratschmer and Jenner. Even after the discus throw , Awilow stayed ahead, Kratschmer was 24 points behind, but was only third because Jenner had achieved the best distance and was between the two. With his jump over 4.80 m Jenner took the top position for the first time. Kratschmer was second again, 63 points behind, Awilow only another 13 points back in third. In the javelin throw , the penultimate exercise, the gaps between the three leaders increased again. Jenner was ahead with 88 points, while Kratschmer was 61 points ahead of Awilow. Jenner even had the chance of a new world record with his strong performance. He had to undercut 4:23 min in the final 1500 meter run . With 4: 12.61 min he clearly succeeded and so Bruce Jenner not only secured the gold medal in front of Guido Kratschmer and the 1972 Olympic champion Mykola Awilow. Jenner also improved his own world record by 80 points. With this number of points, he finally surpassed Awilow's performance of 1972 according to the all-round table that is valid today. In addition to the medal winners, Raimo Pihl, Ryszard Skowronek, Siegfried Stark and Leonid Lytwynenko scored more than 8000 points in the next places. The British Daley Thompson, who would write decathlon history in the coming years, landed in eighteenth place at his first Olympic appearance.

Bruce Jenner achieved the ninth Olympic victory of a US decathlete in the 14th Olympic competition. If you add the gold medal recognized by the IOC in 1982 for Jim Thorpe's victory in 1912 , it was the tenth Olympic victory for the USA.

In order to better classify the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1971, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 is also given. According to this table that is valid today, there would have been only a few deviations: Ranks seven / eight, fifteen / sixteen and 19/20 would have been swapped. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1985 rating
1	Bruce Jenner	United States	8618 WR	8634
2	Guido Kratschmer	BR Germany	8411	8407
3	Mykola Awilow	Soviet Union	8369	8378
4th	Raimo Pihl	Sweden	8218	8217
5	Ryszard Skowronek	Poland	8113	8099
6th	Siegfried Stark	GDR	8048	8051
7th	Leonid Lytwynenko	Soviet Union	8025	7963
8th	Lennart Hedmark	Sweden	7974	8002
9	Alexander Grebenyuk	Soviet Union	7803	7759
10	Claus Marek	BR Germany	7767	7682
11	Johannes Lahti	Finland	7711	7650
12	Ryszard Katus	Poland	7616	7568
13	Luděk Pernica	Czechoslovakia	7602	7564
14th	Philippe Bobin	France	7580	7532
15th	Fred Samara	United States	7504	7430
16	Georg Werthner	Austria	7493	7443
17th	Gilles Gémise-Fareau	France	7486	7423
18th	Daley Thompson	Great Britain	7434	7330
19th	Roger Lespagnard	Belgium	7322	7221
20th	Runald Beckman	Sweden	7319	7223
21st	Eberhard Stroot	BR Germany	7063	7202
22nd	Tito Steiner	Argentina	7052	6942
23	Fred Dixon	United States	6754	6808

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, pp. 233–236

Video

• Olympics - 1976 Montreal - Men's Decathlon - USA Bruce Jenner imasportsphile.com , published February 14, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed December 18, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed December 18, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 78f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Decathlon men , accessed December 18, 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
3. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (high jump) , accessed December 18, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (pole vault) , accessed December 18, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (javelin throw) , accessed December 18, 2017
6. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 79, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 18, 2017
7. ↑ SportsReference Decathlon , accessed December 18, 2017
8. ^ Stockholm 1912. The Deep Fall of "Jim" Thorpe , RP Online July 23, 2004, accessed December 18, 2017