1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Decathlon | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 26 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 8th-9th August 1984 | ||||||||
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The men's decathlon at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was played on August 8 and 9, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 26 athletes took part. A decathlon table modified in 1977 was used to determine the points.
The British Daley Thompson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Jürgen Hingsen and Siegfried Wentz , both from the Federal Republic of Germany.
Third starter for the Federal Republic was Guido Kratschmer , who reached fourth place.
Participants from Switzerland were Michele Rüfenacht - tenth place - and Patrick Vetterli - thirteenth place. Georg Werthner started
for Austria , he finished ninth.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not present because of the Olympic boycott.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1980 |
Daley Thompson ( Great Britain )
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8495 points | Moscow 1980 |
| World Champion 1983 | 8666 points | Helsinki 1983 | |
| European Champion 1982 | 8743 points | Athens 1982 | |
| Pan American Champion 1983 |
Dave Steen ( Canada )
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7958 points | Caracas 1983 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983 | Pedro Herrera ( Cuba )
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7358 points | Havana 1983 |
| South America Champion 1983 | Carlos Gambetta ( Argentina )
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7252 points | Santa Fe 1983 |
| Asian champion 1983 | Fu-An Lee ( Chinese Taipei )
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7641 points | Kuwait City 1983 |
| African champions 1982 | Charles Kokoyo ( Kenya )
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7080 points | Cairo 1982 |
Note: all points given according to the 1977 rating system
Existing records
| World record | 8798 points (8832) |
Jürgen Hingsen ( Federal Republic of Germany )
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Mannheim | June 9, 1984 |
| Olympic record | 8616 points (8634) |
Bruce Jenner ( USA )
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Montreal | July 30, 1976 |
Annotation:
The points mentioned result from various decathlon tables that are no longer valid today. For the 1976 Olympic record it was the 1971 rating system and for the 1984 world record it was the 1977 system. The number of points that would be obtained using the 1985 rating table valid today is given in brackets.
Conducting the competition
The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. Scoring was based on the points table from 1977.
Attendees
26 athletes from 18 countries took part in the Olympic competition:
Disciplines
In the shot put , discus and javelin throw as well as in the long jump , the best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump and pole vault , the last valid attempt is printed in bold.
100 meter run
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
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Long jump
With 8.01 m, Daley Thompson achieved the largest distance ever in the long jump in an Olympic decathlon.
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Shot put
Daley Thompson was able to maintain his lead ahead of Jürgen Hingsen and Guido Kratschmer. Siegfried Wentz worked his way up to fourth place.
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high jump
Jürgen Hingsen was able to reduce his gap to Daley Thompson to 78 points. Behind Hingsen, Siggi Wentz had moved past Guido Kratschmer into third place.
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400 meter run
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
The gap between Daley Thompson and Jürgen Hingsen was again 114 points. Siggi Wentz and Guido Kratschmer were still behind Hingsen. The Frenchman William Motti was fifth up to 37 points on Kratschmer.
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110 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
In the ranking nothing changed in the front ranks. Siggi Wentz in third place was able to further extend his lead over Guido Kratschmer.
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Discus throw
With his 50.82 m Jürgen Hingsen reduced his deficit on Daley Thompson to only 33 points. Siggi Wentz was still third, while Guido Kratschmer had to give up his fourth place to William Motti. The Frenchman, who was 22 points ahead of Kratschmer, had given up his last two attempts after his first throw, the furthest in this competition.
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Pole vault
At 5.40 m, Tim Bright achieved the highest height in the pole vault in an Olympic decathlon.
With his 5 m jump, Daley Thompson extended his lead again. Jürgen Hingsen, who only jumped over his starting height on the third attempt and could not improve further afterwards, was now 153 points behind him. 269 points separated Hingsen in second and Sigfried Wentz in third. Guido Kratschmer was able to push William Motti back from fourth place, Kratschmer was now 74 points ahead of the French and even hoped for the bronze medal with only 18 points behind Wentz.
The athletes had the opportunity to start the competition earlier than when the starting height was actually 3.70 m.
Mohamed Salah started at 3.50 m, made the height on the third attempt and snapped three times at 3.70 m.
Ángel Díaz entry height was 3.30 m. He was successful and failed at 3.50 m.
Fidel Solórzano even got on at 2.80 m, jumping over this and the following heights of 3.00 m and 3.10 m. He failed only at 3.20 m.
Vivian Coralie started first, at 6 feet. He made this height, skipped 2.80 m, jumped 2.90 m and 3.00 m and failed at 3.10 m.
Albert Miller had three failed attempts over 3.70 m and remained without a height.
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Javelin throw
Albert Miller no longer competed in this ninth discipline.
Daley Thompson's lead over Jürgen Hingsen had grown to 210 points. Guido Kratschmer was now 182 points behind Hingsen, one point ahead of Siggi Wentz.
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1500 meter run
The discipline was carried out in two runs.
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Course and final result
Date: 8./9. August 1984
As in the 1982 and 1983 , there was the duel between the British Daley Thompson, Olympic champion in 1980 , and the German decathlete Jürgen Hingsen, who also took on the world record here . Thompson had won both duels in previous years. In the eyes of many experts, he was once again a favorite, mainly due to his mental strength. The first contender for the bronze medal was Hingsen's compatriot Siegfried Wentz, third in the 1983 World Cup . The GDR decathletes, who could most likely have competed for Wentz in the battle for bronze, were missing from the athletes from the boycott countries.
Right from the start, Thompson proved his performance, which he could call up to the point. In the 100-meter run , he was significantly faster than everyone else with 10.44 s. Its strongest competitors lagged by about half a second. In the long jump to the continued, Thompson exceeded 8.01 m the only participant even the 8-meter mark, which has never been an athlete in an Olympic decathlon succeeded. But Hingsen was also well in the race with 7.80 m and the gap between the two favorites at this point was about the expected value of 164 points. Third was now the German ex-world record holder Guido Kratschmer, whom nobody really had on the bill. The Swiss Michele Rüfenacht followed and the further gaps were very close. In the shot put , Kratschmer showed with his 15.93 m how good he was in this decathlon. Hingsen also came across this area, but had introduced even more here. Thompson continued to lead with 155 points ahead of Hingsen, Kratschmer and Wentz. These four were still ahead after the high jump . Hingsen jumped an excellent 2.12 m, Thompson reached 2.03 m. The distance between the two was reduced to 78 points and the race had become more open again. Wentz was 260 points behind Thompson in third place, another 20 points behind Kratschmer was fourth. Thompson delivered a time under 47 seconds in the last exercise of the first day, the 400-meter run . Hingsen and Wentz were about seven and eight tenths of a second behind. Kratschmer stayed within his possibilities with 49.25 s. With 4633 points, a half-time value never before achieved in a decathlon, Thompson led by 114 points over Hingsen at the end of day one. Another 187 points behind, Wentz was still third ahead of Kratschmer, who was 91 points behind Wentz. The Frenchman William Motti also had a high-class score as fifth with 4204 points - 37 points behind Kratschmer.
On the second day, the three overall leaders were right in front again over the 110 meter hurdles : Hingsen 14.29 s / Thompson 14.33 s / Wentz 14.35 s. So hardly anything changed in the distances. Kratschmer also came fourth ahead of Motti. In the discus, however, something was moving. Motti - 50.92 m - and Hingsen - 50.82 m - were the only ones to surpass the 50-meter mark and Thompson - 46.56 m - did a normal performance for him, but the gap between the two first-placed winners was still growing once significantly less. Thompson was only 33 points ahead of Hingsen, now everything seemed possible again, the outcome of the decathlon was completely open. Wentz was still third well behind. Motti had moved up to fourth in front of Kratschmer. In the pole vault , the eighth discipline, a preliminary decision was made. Hingsen had big problems with his entry height of 4.50 m, which he only managed at the last attempt. He failed at the next height, which was not enough for him in the fight for gold. Thompson, on the other hand, jumped a very good 5.00 m. Thus the gap between the two front runners had grown to 165 points - almost impossible to catch up for Hingsen. Wentz was still third and Kratschmer moved back to fourth place with 4.90 m, ahead of Motti. Tim Bright from the USA reached a height of 5.40 m that had never been reached in an Olympic decathlon. Kratschmer - 69.40 m - and Wentz 67.68 m - achieved excellent distances as the third and fourth best javelin throwers and thus consolidated their positions. Kratschmer was now even third with a point ahead of Wentz. Thompson reached 65.24 m, which he exceeded the not so strong Hingsen by almost five meters. This gave Thompson a lead of 210 points, which Hingsen could not make up for, even as a better 1,500 meter runner. In this final discipline the only question was whether the bronze medal would go to Kratschmer or Wentz and whether Thompson would succeed in surpassing Hingsen's world record. Jürgen Hingsen delivered an excellent time with 4: 22.60 minutes, it was the third best in this competition. He won the silver medal with 8673 points. In the end, Wentz was about fourteen seconds faster than Kratschmer, so bronze went to Siegfried Wentz with 8412 points and Guido Kratschmer was fourth with 8326 points ahead of William Motti - 8266 points,
Thompson's score was initially given as 8797, which would have put him exactly one point behind Hingsen's world record. A further evaluation of the photo finish in the 1500 meter run , however, resulted in an additional point for Thompson, who was able to set Hingsen's world record.
This competition was of an excellent standard. Not only Thompson's world record setting, but also the performance behind it made this value. It is difficult to assess how the missing athletes from the boycott states would have done, but intervening in the battle for bronze would have been difficult, Daley Thompson and Jürgen Hingsen would have been invulnerable as always in recent years.
After the US athlete Bob Mathias , the winner of 1948 and 1952 , Daley Thomson was the second decathlete to repeat his Olympic victory.
For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1977, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been a few minor deviations from ninth place: Rank 12 would have moved up to rank 10, ranks 10 and 11 would have been moved one place back. - Ranks 15 and 16 would have moved up to 13 and 14, rank 14 would have been 15, rank 13 would have become 16. - Rank 23 would have moved up to rank 21, ranks 21 and 22 would have been moved back one place. 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 |
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| 1 | Daley Thompson |
Great Britain
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8798 WRe / OR | 8846 |
| 2 | Jürgen Hingsen |
BR Germany
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8673 | 8695 |
| 3 | Siegfried Wentz |
BR Germany
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8412 | 8416 |
| 4th | Guido Kratschmer |
BR Germany
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8326 | 8356 |
| 5 | William Motti |
 France
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8266 | 8287 |
| 6th | John Crist |
United States
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8130 | 8115 |
| 7th | James Wooding |
United States
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8091 | 8054 |
| 8th | Dave Steen |
Canada
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8047 | 8025 |
| 9 | Georg Werthner |
 Austria
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8012 | 7942 |
| 10 | Michele Rüfenacht |
 Switzerland
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7924 | 7765 |
| 11 | Bradley McStravick |
Great Britain
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7890 | 7743 |
| 12 | Timothy Bright |
United States
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7862 | 7766 |
| 13 | Patrick Vetterli |
Switzerland
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7739 | 7482 |
| 14th | Peter Hadfield |
 Australia
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7683 | 7527 |
| 15th | Kangqiang Weng |
 People's Republic of China
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7662 | 7576 |
| 16 | Jin-Shoel Guu |
Chinese Taipei
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7629 | 7528 |
| 17th | Trond Skramstad |
 Norway
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7579 | 7435 |
| 18th | Douglas Fernández |
.svg){kind=small} Venezuela
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7553 | 7423 |
| 19th | Fu-An Lee |
Chinese Taipei
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7541 | 7383 |
| 20th | Colin Boreham |
Great Britain
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7485 | 7316 |
| 21st | Mohamed Mansour Salah |
 Qatar
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6589 | 6352 |
| 22nd | Claudio Escauriza |
.svg){kind=small} Paraguay
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6546 | 6212 |
| 23 | Fidel Solórzano |
 Ecuador
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6519 | 6355 |
| 24 | Ángel Díaz |
 Guatemala
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6342 | 6191 |
| 25th | Vivian Coralie |
 Mauritius
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6084 | 5925 |
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 38f
Web links
- SportsReference Decathlon , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 289–292, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- Men's Decathlon at LA Olympics of 1984 , posted June 15, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
- Daley Thompson Olympics 1984 Decathlon Day 1 , posted July 27, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
- Daley Thompson Olympics 1984 Decathlon Day 2 , posted August 2, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 681 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference (long jump) , accessed January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference (pole vault) , accessed January 14, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 289–292, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
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