1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	5th / 6th August 1992
Medalist Robert Změlík ( TCH )   Antonio Peñalver ( ESP )   Dave Johnson ( USA )

The men's decathlon at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played on August 5 and 6, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

The Czechoslovak Robert Změlík became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Spaniard Antonio Peñalver and the American Dave Johnson .

Thorsten Dauth , Paul Meier and Frank Müller started for Germany . Meier finished the decathlon in sixth, Müller in thirteenth and Dauth in seventeenth.
Gernot Kellermayr represented Austria. He finished eleventh.
The Swiss Beat Gähwiler finished the competition in 21st place.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Christian Schenk ( GDR )	8488 points	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Dan O'Brien ( USA )	8812 points	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Christian Plaziat ( France )	8574 points	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Pedro da Silva ( Brazil )	7762 points	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Armando Quintanilla ( Mexico )	8488 points	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Valdenor dos Santos ( Brazil )	8488 points	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Mohamed Suleiman ( Qatar )	8488 points	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Mourad Mahour Bacha ( Algeria )	7467 points	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion	Decathlon not in the championship program

Existing records

World record	8798 points (8832)	Jürgen Hingsen ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Mannheim , Germany	June 9, 1984
	8798 points (8846)	Daley Thompson ( Great Britain )	los Angeles	August 9, 1984
Olympic record	8798 points (8846)	Daley Thompson ( Great Britain )	Los Angeles Decathlon , USA	August 9, 1984

Annotation:

The stated scores result from the rating system from 1977, which is no longer valid today. The number of points that would be obtained if the rating table from 1985 valid today were used are given in brackets. After that, Daley Thompson would be the sole world record holder.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Attendees

36 athletes from 24 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Ibrahim Al-Matrooshi	United Arab Emirates
Francisco Benet	Spain
David Bigham	Great Britain
Alain Blondel	France
Álvaro Burrell	Spain
Thorsten Dauth	Germany
Sten Ekberg	Sweden
Beat Gähwiler	Switzerland
Ramil Gʻaniyev	EUN
Eduard Hämäläinen	EUN
Dave Johnson	United States
Alper Kasapoğlu	Turkey
Gernot Kellermayr	Austria
Petri Keskitalo	Finland
Aric Long	United States
Jorge Maradiaga	Honduras
Paul Meier	Germany
Albert Miller	Fiji
Erich Momberger	Papua New Guinea
William Motti	France
Frank Mueller	Germany
Sándor Munkácsy	Hungary
Robert Muzzio	United States
Andrei Nazarov	Estonia
Erki Nool	Estonia
Carlos O'Connell	Ireland
Antonio Peñalver	Spain
Christian Plaziat	France
Simon Poelman	New Zealand
Viktor Radchenko	EUN
Pedro da Silva	Brazil
Dean Smith	Australia
Mike Smith	Canada
Dezső Szabó	Hungary
Homelo Vi	Tonga
Robert de Wit	Netherlands
Robert Změlík	Czechoslovakia

Disciplines

Note: 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 and therefore best attempts are printed in bold.

100 meter run

The Estonian Erki Nool did not participate in the last discipline of the decathlon

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kellermayr 10.49 s 977 02 Placiat 10.70 s 929 03 Meier 10.75 s 917 04th Změlík 10.78 s 910 05 Dauth 10.80 s 906 06th Burrell 10.95 s 872 Müller 08th Gʻaniyev 10.97 s 867 D. Smith 10 M. Smith 11.02 s 856 11 Nazarov 11.03 s 854 12 Nool 11.08 s 843 13 Peñalver 11.09 s 841 Szabó de Wit 16 Hämäläinen 11.10 s 838 17th Ekberg 11.11 s 836 18th Munkácsy 11.13 s 832 19th Bigham 11.14 s 830 Vi 21st Johnson 11.16 s 825 22nd da Silva 11.21 s 814 23 Keskitalo 11.24 s 808 24 Long 11.26 s 806 25th Radchenko 11.30 s 795 26th Blondel 11.31 s 793 27 Muzzio 11.36 s 782 28 Kasapoğlu 11.40 s 774 Miller 30th Benet 11.41 s 771 31 Motti 11.42 s 769 32 Momberger 11.55 s 742 33 Gähwiler 11.56 s 740 34 Al-Matrooshi 11.63 s 725 35 Maradiaga 11.75 s 701 36 Poelman 12.22 s 608

Long jump

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Změlík 7.66 m 7.87 m x 1027 02 Nool x 7.32 m 7.79 m 1007 03 Burrell 7.56 m 7.30 m 7.32 m 950 04th Meier 7.54 m x 5.31 m 945 Peñalver 7.15 m 7.54 m x 06th Kellermayr x x 7.53 m 942 07th Gʻaniyev x 7.21 m 7.49 m 932 08th D. Smith x 7.43 m 7.29 m 918 09 Szabó x 7.42 m 7.37 m 915 10 Johnson x 7.33 m 5.66 m 893 Keskitalo x x 7.33 m Radchenko 7.33 m 7.05 m 7.32 m 13 Blondel 7.15 m x 7.31 m 888 14th Dauth 7.22 m 7.04 m 7.30 m 886 15th Munkácsy 7.28 m 7.11 m x 881 16 Bigham x 7.22 m 7.26 m 876 17th Müller 6.93 m 7.25 m 7.20 m 874 18th Long x 7.00 m 7.21 m 864 Placiat x 7.19 m 7.21 m 20th Hämäläinen x 7.14 m 7.15 m 850 Kasapoğlu 7.15 m x x 22nd Motti 7.13 m 6.88 m x 845 Nazarov 6.87 m x 7.13 m 24 Gähwiler x 6.93 m 7.07 m 830 25th Ekberg 6.95 m 6.99 m 7.02 m 818 de Wit 6.87 m 7.02 m 6.75 m 27 da Silva x 7.00 m x 814 28 Benet 6.82 m 6.77 m 6.94 m 799 Muzzio 6.74 m 6.94 m 6.75 m 30th Vi 6.72 m 6.84 m 6.91 m 792 31 M. Smith x 6.75 m 6.83 m 774 32 Miller x 6.31 m 6.50 m 697 33 Al-Matrooshi 6.06 m 6.07 m 6.37 m 668 34 Momberger 6.33 m 6.17 m 6.27 m 6.59 35 Maradiaga 5.93 m 6.18 m 5.95 m 626 - Poelman - x - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 1937 02 Kellermayr 1919 03 Meier 1862 04th Nool 1850 05 Burrell 1822 06th Gʻaniyev 1799 07th Placiat 1793 08th Dauth 1792 09 Peñalver 1786 10 D. Smith 1785 11 Szabó 1756 12 Müller 1746 13 Johnson 1718 14th Munkácsy 1713 15th Bigham 1706 16 Keskitalo 1701 17th Nazarov 1699 18th Hämäläinen 1688 Radchenko 20th Blondel 1681 21st Long 1670 22nd de Wit 1659 23 Ekberg 1654 24 M. Smith 1630 25th da Silva 1628 26th Kasapoğlu 1624 27 Vi 1622 28 Motti 1614 29 Muzzio 1581 30th Benet 1570 Gähwiler 32 Miller 1471 33 Momberger 1401 34 Al-Matrooshi 1393 35 Maradiaga 1327 36 Poelman 608

Shot put

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

The New Zealander Simon Poelman did not participate in this third discipline.

With 16.50 m, Antonio Peñalver achieved the largest distance ever in the shot put in an Olympic decathlon.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Peñalver 16.26 m 16.38 m 16.50 m 882 02 Muzzio 16.02 m 15.77 m 15.51 m 852 03 de Wit 13.51 m 14.78 m 15.48 m 819 04th Motti 15.44 m 14.85 m x 817 05 Keskitalo 14.94 m x 15.41 m 815 06th Meier 14.77 m 15.34 m 14.85 m 811 07th Dauth 15.29 m x 14.80 m 808 08th Johnson x x 15.28 m 807 09 Radchenko 14.89 m x 15.21 m 803 10 M. Smith 14.56 m x 15.03 m 792 11 Placiat 14.88 m 14.67 m x 782 12 Hämäläinen 14.05 m 14.78 m 14.78 m 776 13 da Silva 14.14 m x 14.71 m 772 14th Kellermayr x 14.56 m x 763 15th Změlík 13.22 m 14.29 m 14.53 m 761 16 Burrell 14.41 m x x 753 17th Gʻaniyev x 14.35 m x 753 18th Ekberg 14.03 m 14.32 m x 748 19th Long x x 14.00 m 728 20th Szabó 13.73 m x x 712 21st D. Smith 13.67 m 12.51 m 13.64 m 708 22nd Momberger 13.41 m 13.07 m 13.57 m 702 23 Blondel x 13.56 m 13.30 m 701 24 Müller 13.55 m x 13.40 m 701 25th Kasapoğlu 13.12 m 13.40 m 13.08 m 692 26th Miller 12.81 m 13.07 m 13.21 m 680 27 Nazarov x 12.89 m 13.11 m 674 28 Benet 12.80 m 12.99 m x 667 29 Gähwiler 12.92 m x 12.52 m 662 30th Bigham x 12.07 m 12.56 m 640 Munkácsy 12.56 m 12.37 m 12.55 m 32 Nool 11.73 m 12.14 m 11.88 m 615 33 Vi 11.55 m 11.36 m 11.97 m 605 34 Maradiaga 9.54 m x x 458 35 Al-Matrooshi 7.86 m 7.53 m 8.62 m 403

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 2698 02 Kellermayr 2682 03 Meier 2673 04th Peñalver 2668 05 Dauth 2600 06th Burrell 2575 Placiat 08th Gʻaniyev 2549 09 Johnson 2525 10 Keskitalo 2516 11 D. Smith 2493 12 Radchenko 2491 13 de Wit 2478 14th Szabó 2468 15th Nool 2465 16 Hämäläinen 2464 17th Müller 2447 18th Muzzio 2433 19th Motti 2431 20th M. Smith 2422 21st Ekberg 2402 22nd da Silva 2400 23 Long 2398 24 Blondel 2382 25th Nazarov 2373 26th Munkácsy 2353 27 Bigham 2346 28 Kasapoğlu 2316 29 Benet 2237 30th Gähwiler 2232 31 Vi 2227 32 Miller 2151 33 Momberger 2103 34 Al-Matrooshi 1796 35 Maradiaga 1785

high jump

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

Classification space Surname 1.70 m 1.97 m 1.73 m 2.00 m 1.76 m 2.03 m 1.79 m 2.06 m 1.82 m 2.09 m 1.85 m 2.12 m 1.88 m 2.15 m 1.91 m 2.18 m 1.94 m 2.21 m Points 01 Long - - - o - xo - o - o - xo - xxo - xx o - xxx 973 02 Meier - - - o - o - o - xxo - xo - xx o - xxx o - 944 03 Gʻaniyev - - - o - xo - o - xxo - xx o - xxx - - o - 915 Motti - - - o - - - o - xo - o - xxx - - o - 05 Nazarov - o - - - xo - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - 887 06th Peñalver - - - o - - - o - xxx - - - - - - o - 859 da Silva - xo - xo - - - xx o - xxx - - - - xo - - - Změlík - o - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - - 09 Blondel - o - o - xx o - xxx - - o - - - o - o - 831 Burrell - o - xo - o - xxx - - o - - - - - o - Ekberg - o - - - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - 12 Hämäläinen - - - x o - - - - - xxx - - - - - - - - 803 Johnson - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - o - Muzzio - o - o - xxx - - - - o - - - o - o - M. Smith - - - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - de Wit - o - xx o - xxx - - - - o - o - o - xxo - 17th Dauth - o - xxx - - - - - - o - - - o - xo - 776 Müller - o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - - - o - Nool - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - xo - xo - Placiat - x o - - - xxx - - - - - - - - o - - - Radchenko - xx o - xxx - - - - - - o - o - o - xo - Szabó - o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - - - 23 Bigham - xxx - - - - - - o - - - o - o - o - 749 24 Al-Matrooshi o - o - o - o - o - o - xxo - o - xxx - 749 Benet - - - - - - o - - - o - o - x o - xxx - Kasapoğlu - - - - - - - - - - o - o - o - xxx - Kellermayr - - - - - - - - o - - - o - o - xxx - Munkácsy - - - - - - - - - - - - o - xx o - xxx - D. Smith o - - - - - o - o - xo - o - x o - xxx - 30th Gähwiler - - - - - - o - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - - 696 Momberger - - o - o - - - o - o - x o - xxx - - - 32 Miller - - - - o - - - x o - xxx - - - - - - - 644 Vi - - o - o - xxo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - 34 Maradiaga o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 544 - Keskitalo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - xxx - 0 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Meier 3617 02 Změlík 3557 03 Peñalver 3527 04th Gʻaniyev 3411 05 Burrell 3406 06th Kellermayr 3405 07th Dauth 3376 08th Long 3371 09 Placiat 3351 10 Motti 3346 11 Johnson 3328 12 de Wit 3281 13 Hämäläinen 3267 Radchenko 15th Nazarov 3260 16 da Silva 3259 17th Szabó 3244 18th Nool 3241 19th Muzzio 3236 20th Ekberg 3233 21st M. Smith 3225 22nd Müller 3223 23 D. Smith 3216 24 Blondel 3213 25th Bigham 3095 26th Munkácsy 3076 27 Kasapoğlu 3039 28 Benet 2960 29 Gähwiler 2928 30th Vi 2871 31 Momberger 2799 32 Miller 2795 33 Al-Matrooshi 2519 34 Keskitalo 2516 35 Maradiaga 2329

400 meter run

The Canadian Mike Smith did not compete on the second day

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Eduard Hämäläinen from the United Team, the Finn Petri Keskitalo and the French Christian Plaziat did not take part in this fifth discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Bigham 47.73 s 922 02 Kellermayr 47.91 s 913 03 Müller 47.98 s 910 04th Burrell 48.14 s 902 05 Szabó 48.24 s 898 06th Dauth 48.33 s 893 Meier 08th Změlík 48.65 s 878 09 Munkácsy 48.69 s 876 10 Ekberg 48.91 s 866 11 Nazarov 49.03 s 860 12 Blondel 49.19 s 852 13 de Wit 49.24 s 850 14th Gʻaniyev 49.30 s 847 15th da Silva 49.55 s 835 16 Benet 49.60 s 833 17th Peñalver 49.66 s 830 18th Johnson 49.76 s 826 Nool 20th Long 49.93 s 818 21st Muzzio 50.00 s 815 22nd M. Smith 50.04 s 813 23 D. Smith 50.06 s 812 24 Gähwiler 50.08 s 811 25th Motti 50.44 s 794 26th Radchenko 50.62 s 786 27 Miller 50.76 s 780 28 Al-Matrooshi 51.40 s 751 29 Vi 51.45 s 749 30th Kasapoğlu 51.54 s 745 31 Momberger 51.78 s 734 32 Maradiaga 54.81 s 606

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Meier 4510 02 Změlík 4435 03 Peñalver 4357 04th Kellermayr 4318 05 Gʻaniyev 4311 06th Burrell 4308 07th Dauth 4269 08th Long 4189 09 Johnson 4154 10 Szabó 4142 11 Motti 4140 12 Müller 4133 13 de Wit 4131 14th Nazarov 4120 15th Ekberg 4099 16 da Silva 4094 17th Nool 4067 18th Blondel 4065 19th Radchenko 4053 20th Muzzio 4051 21st M. Smith 4038 22nd D. Smith 4028 23 Bigham 4017 24 Munkácsy 3952 25th Benet 3793 26th Kasapoğlu 3784 27 Gähwiler 3739 28 Vi 3620 29 Miller 3575 30th Momberger 3533 31 Al-Matrooshi 3270 32 Maradiaga 2935

110 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

The Canadian Mike Smith did not take part in this sixth discipline.

With 13.95 s, Robert Změlík achieved the fastest time so far in the 110-meter hurdles in the context of an Olympic decathlon.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Změlík 13.95 s 981 02 Blondel 14.50 s 911 03 Müller 14.51 s 910 04th Peñalver 14.58 s 901 05 Nazarov 14.60 s 899 06th Kellermayr 14.64 s 894 07th da Silva 14.70 s 886 08th Muzzio 14.75 s 880 09 Dauth 14.76 s 879 Johnson 11 Gʻaniyev 14.78 s 876 Radchenko 13 Munkácsy 14.81 s 873 14th Benet 14.86 s 867 Szabó 16 de Wit 14.89s 863 17th Bigham 14.94s 857 18th Ekberg 14.97 s 853 19th Motti 15.02 s 847 20th Miller 15.08 s 840 21st Gähwiler 15.17 s 829 22nd Burrell 15.18 s 828 23 Meier 15.22 s 823 24 D. Smith 15.29 s 815 25th Kasapoğlu 15.42 s 799 26th Vi 15.70 s 767 27 Nool 15.95 s 738 28 Al-Matrooshi 15.98 s 736 29 Maradiaga 16.20 s 710 30th Momberger 16.68 s 658 - Long DSQ 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 5416 02 Meier 5333 03 Peñalver 5258 04th Kellermayr 5212 05 Gʻaniyev 5187 06th Dauth 5148 07th Burrell 5136 08th Müller 5043 09 Johnson 5033 10 Nazarov 5019 11 Szabó 5009 12 de Wit 4994 13 Motti 4987 14th da Silva 4980 15th Blondel 4976 16 Ekberg 4952 17th Muzzio 4931 18th Radchenko 4929 19th Bigham 4874 20th D. Smith 4843 21st Munkácsy 4825 22nd Nool 4805 23 Benet 4660 24 Kasapoğlu 4583 25th Gähwiler 4568 26th Miller 4415 27 Vi 4387 28 Momberger 4191 29 Long 4189 30th Al-Matrooshi 4005 31 Maradiaga 3645

Discus throw

The discus throw was conducted in two groups.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Muzzio 47.72 m 46.94 m 50.74 m 886 02 Motti 50.58 m 42.34 m 49.34 m 882 03 Peñalver 46.46 m 46.42 m 49.68 m 864 04th Johnson 43.68 m 49.12 m 46.80 m 852 05 de Wit 46.48 m 48.32 m 48.34 m 836 06th Ekberg x 45.76 m x 783 Long x 45.76 m x 08th Gʻaniyev 43.28 m 44.74 m 45.08 m 768 09 Kellermayr 45.06 m x 44.90 m 768 10 Změlík 41.46 m 45.00 m 43.84 m 767 11 Radchenko x 41.54 m 44.84 m 764 12 Dauth 44.70 m x 41.08 m 761 13 Nazarov 44.58 m x x 758 14th Burrell 41.46 m 43.52 m 41.76 m 736 15th Gähwiler 41.68 m 43.26 m x 731 16 Müller x 42.56 m 38.46 m 717 17th D. Smith x 42.54 m 41.00 m 716 18th Meier 38.70 m x 42.14 m 708 19th Munkácsy x 40.84 m 41.22 m 689 20th Vi 37.46 m 39.52 m 40.68 m 678 21st Benet 40.10 m 39.84 m x 667 22nd Miller 39.90 m 39.48 m 39.02 m 663 23 Kasapoğlu 39.80 m 39.78 m 37.92 m 660 24 Momberger x 38.94 m 39.52 m 655 25th Szabó 38.50 m 39.22 m x 649 26th Blondel x 37.78 m x 620 27 Bigham x 37.42 m 36.86 m 612 28 Nool x x 35.46 m 573 29 Maradiaga x 30.26 m x 470 30th Al-Matrooshi x 22.78 m 24.58 m 359 - da Silva x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 6183 02 Peñalver 6122 03 Meier 6041 04th Kellermayr 5980 05 Gʻaniyev 5955 06th Dauth 5909 07th Johnson 5885 08th Burrell 5872 09 Motti 5869 10 de Wit 5830 11 Muzzio 5817 12 Nazarov 5777 13 Müller 5760 14th Ekberg 5735 15th Radchenko 5693 16 Szabó 5658 17th Blondel 5596 18th D. Smith 5559 19th Munkácsy 5514 20th Bigham 5486 21st Nool 5378 22nd Benet 5327 23 Gähwiler 5299 24 Kasapoğlu 5243 25th Miller 5078 26th Vi 5065 27 da Silva 4980 28 Long 4972 29 Momberger 4846 30th Al-Matrooshi 4364 31 Maradiaga 4115

Pole vault

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

The American Aric Long and the Brazilian Pedro da Silva did not take part in this eighth discipline.

Classification space Surname 3.60 m 4.50 m 3.70 m 4.60 m 3.80 m 4.70 m 3.90 m 4.80 m 4.00 m 4.90 m 4.10 m 5.00 m 4.20 m 5.10 m 4.30 m 5.20 m 4.40 m 5.30 m - 5.40 m Points 01 Szabó - - - - - - - o - - - o - - - o - xx o - xxx 1004 02 Blondel - - - - - o - - - xo - - - xx o - - - xxx - - 941 Johnson - - - - - xo - - - o - o - o - xxx - - - - Změlík - - - o - - - xo - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - 05 Nool - - - - - - - o - - - o - - - xxx - - - - 910 06th Ekberg - o - xo - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - o - - - - - 880 Gʻaniyev - o - - - o - - - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - Muzzio - o - - - o - xxo - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - Peñalver - o - - - o - o - o - xxx - - o - - - - - Radchenko - - - - - o - - - o - xxx - - - - - - - - 11 Kellermayr - o - xo - o - o - xxx - - o - - - - - - - 849 Nazarov - - - xxo - xxo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - o - - - de Wit - - - o - o - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - 14th Motti - o - - - o - xxx - - - - o - o - - - - - 819 15th Gähwiler - - - o - xxx - - - - - - o - - - o - - - 790 Meier - - - o - xxx - - - - - - o - - - o - - - Müller - - - x o - xxx - - - - - - o - - - xo - - - 18th Benet - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - - - xo - - - 760 Bigham - o - xxx - - - - o - - - o - - - o - - - Burrell - o - xxx - - - - o - - - - - o - o - - - Dauth - o - xxx o - - - o - xo - o - o - xo - - - Kasapoğlu - o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - xo - - - D. Smith - o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - o - - - 24 Munkácsy - - - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - 731 25th Momberger - - - - - - - - o - o - xx o - xxx - - - - - 673 26th Al-Matrooshi o - o - xxo - o - xo - x o - xxx - - - - - - - 645 27 Maradiaga - - xo - x- - o - xx o - xxx - - - - - - - - - 617 Vi - - - - - - xo - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - - 29 Miller - - - - o - - - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - 562 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 7124 02 Peñalver 7002 03 Gʻaniyev 6835 04th Meier 6831 05 Kellermayr 6829 06th Johnson 6826 07th Muzzio 6697 08th Motti 6688 09 de Wit 6679 10 Dauth 6669 11 Szabó 6662 12 Burrell 6632 13 Nazarov 6626 14th Ekberg 6615 15th Radchenko 6573 16 Müller 6550 17th Blondel 6537 18th D. Smith 6319 19th Nool 6288 20th Bigham 6246 21st Munkácsy 6245 22nd Gähwiler 6089 23 Benet 6087 24 Kasapoğlu 6003 25th Vi 5682 26th Miller 5640 27 Momberger 5519 28 Al-Matrooshi 5009 29 Maradiaga 4732

Javelin throw

Sten Ekberg (SWE)

The discipline was conducted in three groups.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Motti 67.50 m 65.34 m 66.12 m 851 02 Johnson 49.78 m 62.86 m x 781 03 Radchenko x 62.42 m 62.56 m 776 04th Ekberg 58.92 m 62.22 m 60.04 m 771 05 Müller 58.62 m 60.90 m 61.84 m 766 06th Muzzio 55.82 m 61.64 m 60.32 m 763 07th de Wit 61.36 m 60.30 m 59.48 m 758 08th Bigham 55.14 m 60.52 m x 746 D. Smith x 60.52 m 54.10 m 10 Benet 59.02 m 59.68 m 56.72 m 733 11 Szabó 59.14 m - - 725 12 Změlík 58.42 m 56.20 m 59.06 m 724 13 Gähwiler 52.92 m 49.66 m 58.82 m 720 14th Peñalver 58.64 m x 57.74 m 717 15th Blondel 58.00 m 57.92 m 57.32 m 708 16 Miller 57.80 m 56.52 m x 705 17th Meier 53.18 m 51.78 m 55.44 m 669 18th Gʻaniyev 52.48 m 54.70 m 53.08 m 658 19th Nazarov x 54.56 m 54.10 m 656 20th Kellermayr 53.22 m 53.74 m x 644 21st Dauth 52.94 m x x 632 22nd Munkácsy 48.16 m 50.12 m 52.90 m 632 23 Vi 52.32 m 49.66 m x 623 24 Momberger 52.24 m x 48.08 m 622 25th Kasapoğlu 45.06 m x 47.90 m 558 26th Al-Matrooshi 41.54 m 46.06 m 44.34 m 531 27 Burrell 41.58 m 44.56 m 45.66 m 525 28 Maradiaga 40.94 m 38.74 m 42.46 m 478 - Nool x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Změlík 7848 02 Peñalver 7719 03 Johnson 7607 04th Motti 7539 05 Meier 7500 06th Gʻaniyev 7493 07th Kellermayr 7473 08th Muzzio 7460 09 de Wit 7437 10 Szabó 7387 11 Ekberg 7386 12 Radchenko 7349 13 Müller 7316 14th Dauth 7301 15th Nazarov 7282 16 Blondel 7245 17th Burrell 7157 18th D. Smith 7065 19th Bigham 6992 20th Munkácsy 6877 21st Benet 6820 22nd Gählwiler 6809 23 Kasapoğlu 6561 24 Miller 6345 25th Vi 6305 26th Nool 6288 27 Momberger 6141 28 Al-Matrooshi 5540 29 Maradiagia 5210

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in two runs.

The Estonian Erki Nool did not participate in this last discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Gähwiler 4: 12.07 min 867 02 Munkácsy 4: 18.62 min 821 03 Szabó 4: 19.96 min 812 04th Burrell 4: 22.42 min 795 05 Blondel 4: 23.82 min 786 06th Nazarov 4: 26.19 min 770 07th Změlík 4: 27.21 min 763 08th Bigham 4: 27.42 min 762 09 Ekberg 4: 29.11 min 750 10 Müller 4: 29.19 min 750 11 Muzzio 4: 31.52 min 735 12 Radchenko 4: 33.49 min 722 13 Johnson 4: 36.63 min 702 14th Peñalver 4: 38.02 min 693 15th Meier 4: 38.21 min 692 16 de Wit 4: 41.39 min 672 17th Gʻaniyev 4: 42.20 min 667 18th Benet 4: 42.58 min 664 19th Dauth 4: 44.91 min 650 20th Kasapoğlu 4: 45.77 min 644 21st Momberger 4: 46.64 min 639 22nd D. Smith 4: 46.83 min 638 23 Miller 4: 48.81 min 626 24 Motti 4: 48.89 min 625 25th Kellermayr 4: 52.56 min 603 26th Al-Matrooshi 4: 55.76 min 584 27 Maradiaga 5: 04.10 min 536 28 Vi 5: 17.57 min 463

Summary

Date: 5th / 6th August 1992

The American world champion Dan O'Brien was the favorite for this competition. But he failed in the US Olympic eliminations in New Orleans , when he was in the pole vault without a valid attempt. The 1988 Olympic champion and third place in the World Cup, Christian Schenk, was absent due to an injury. So the circle of favorites was somewhat limited. The Canadian Vice World Champion Mike Smith, the French European Champion Christian Plaziat, the now best American Dave Johnson and fourth of the 1991 World Championships and 1990 European Championships Robert Změlík from Czechoslovakia started with good prospects .

By far the fastest 100-meter runner was the Austrian Gernot Kellermayr in 10.49 s. Plaziat achieved the second best time with 10.70 s before the German Paul Meier and the Czechoslovak Robert Změlík. Změlík was also strong in the long jump with 7.87 m. The Estonian Erki Nool jumped eight centimeters shorter. Změlík took the lead and was eighteen points ahead of Kellermayr, who had achieved 7.83 m in the long jump. Meier followed in third place in the overall standings, ahead of Nool.

To the delight of the local spectators, the Spaniard Antonio Peñalver achieved the largest distance in the shot put with 16.50 m . He achieved a new Olympic best for the shot put in the decathlon. With the American Robert Muzzio, only one other athlete exceeded the 16-meter mark - he had achieved 16.02 m. In the overall standings, Změlík was still ahead of Kellermayr and Meier. The gaps were close and Peñalver was now fourth, thirty points behind.

The American Aric Long was the best decathlete in the high jump . Meier jumped the second highest height with 2.18 m and thus took the lead in the intermediate ranking. Změlík was now forty points behind the German and thirty points ahead of Peñalver. Kellermayr fell back to sixth after his poor high jump performance.

Over 400 meters , Briton David Bigham was the fastest with 47.73 s ahead of Kellermayr. Meier scored 48.33 s and was able to extend his lead. His lead over Změlík was 75 points. Peñalver was even 153 points behind Meier. Kellermayr was able to move up to fourth, while Dave Johnson had moved up to ninth. The half-time ranking reflected the high quality of the decathlon so far: Meier - 4510 P / Změlík - 4435 P / Peñalver - 4357 P / Kellermayr - 4318 P / Ramil Gʻaniyev - 4311 P / Álvaro Burrell - 4308 P.

On the second day, some athletes could no longer maintain the high level. That was not the case with Změlík. After his Olympic decathlon best time in the 110-meter hurdles, he took the lead again with 13.95 seconds. He was now 83 points ahead of Meier, who showed clear weakness in this sixth discipline with 15.22 seconds. Peñalver had come up to 75 points on the leading Změlík with his 14.58 s. Kellermayr was still in fourth place.

In the discus throw , in which the American Muzzio achieved the greatest distance with 47.72 m, Změlík was able to maintain his lead. He reached 41.46 m, while Meier after his 38.70 m by Peñalver - 46.42 m - was pushed into third place. The Spaniard was 61 points behind Změlík. Meier followed 81 points behind Peñalver, who was 61 points ahead of Kellermayr.

Změlík was able to extend his lead on Peñalver after the pole vault , in which the Hungarian Dezső Szabó was the best decathlete with 4.30 m, to 122 points. In third place was the Uzbek Ramil Gʻaniyev, who started for the United Team, reaching 4.90 m. After his 4.60 m, Meier had dropped to fourth place ahead of Kellermayr. Johnson jumped 5.10 m and worked his way up to sixth. There was only nine points difference between G'aniyev and Johnson.

The best javelin thrower was the Frenchman William Motti with 67.50 m. Změlík's width was 58.42 m, which was enough to extend his lead over Peñalver to 129 points. The Spaniard had thrown 58.64 m. The American Johnson, who had managed 49.78 m, was now third, 112 points behind the Spaniard. After his good shot, Motti moved up to fourth place and was 39 points ahead of Meier, who in turn was able to leave Gʻaniyev by seven points.

In the final 1500-meter run , in which the Swiss Beat Gähwiler was the fastest participant with 4: 12.07 min, Změlík's lead was no longer in danger. Peñalver should have run around 23 seconds faster than him, but was on the contrary eleven seconds slower than the Czechoslovak. For Peñalver it was enough to win the silver medal, as Johnson was only one and a half seconds faster and could only make up nine points. Fourth was the Hungarian Szabó, who ran the third fastest time with 4: 19.96 minutes. The American Robert Muzzio was fifth ahead of Paul Meier, William Motti and Ramil Gʻaniyev.

Robert Změlík became the first Olympic champion in Czechoslovakia in the decathlon .

Antonio Peñalver won the first Spanish medal in this discipline.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Robert Změlík	Czechoslovakia	8611
2	Antonio Peñalver	Spain	8412
3	Dave Johnson	United States	8309
4th	Dezső Szabó	Hungary	8199
5	Robert Muzzio	United States	8195
6th	Paul Meier	Germany	8192
7th	William Motti	France	8164
8th	Ramil Gʻaniyev	EUN	8160
9	Sten Ekberg	Sweden	8136
10	Robert de Wit	Netherlands	8109
11	Gernot Kellermayr	Austria	8076
12	Viktor Radchenko	EUN	8071
13	Frank Mueller	Germany	8066
14th	Andrei Nazarov	Estonia	8052
15th	Alain Blondel	France	8031
16	Álvaro Burrell	Spain	7952
17th	Thorsten Dauth	Germany	7951
18th	David Bigham	Great Britain	7754
19th	Dean Smith	Australia	7703
20th	Sándor Munkácsy	Hungary	7698
21st	Beat Gähwiler	Switzerland	7676
22nd	Francisco Benet	Spain	7484
23	Alper Kasapoğlu	Turkey	7205
24	Albert Miller	Fiji	6971
25th	Eric Momberger	Papua New Guinea	6780
26th	Homelo Vi	Tonga	6768
27	Ibrahim Al-Matrooshi	United Arab Emirates	6124
28	Jorge Maradiaga	Honduras	5746

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed February 13, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: pp. 56–62, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018

Video

• Mens Decathlon Final event at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , 1500 meter run, published November 9, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on February 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 681 , accessed on February 13, 2018
2. ↑ SportsReference (Shot Put) , accessed February 13, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference (110 m hurdles) , accessed on February 13, 2018
4. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: pp. 56–62, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018
5. ^ Richard Hymans: The History of the United States Olympic Trials - Track & Field - page 237 , accessed February 13, 2018