1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 31/1. August 1996
Medalist Dan O'Brien ( USA )   Frank Busemann ( GER )   Tomáš Dvořák ( CZE )

The men's decathlon at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was played on July 31 and August 1, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . Forty athletes participated, 31 of whom finished the competition.

The American Dan O'Brien became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the German Frank Busemann and the Czech Tomáš Dvořák .

In addition to the medalist Busemann, the Germans Frank Müller and Dirk-Achim Pajonk also took part. Müller finished the competition in fourteen, Pajonk in twenty.
The Swiss Philipp Huber was 28th.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Robert Změlík ( Czechoslovakia )	8611 points	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Dan O'Brien ( USA )	8695 points	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Alain Blondel ( France )	8453 points	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Kip Janvrin ( USA )	8049 points	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Eugenio Balanqué ( Cuba )	7719 points	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Pedro da Silva ( Brazil )	7374 points	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Hitoshi Maruono ( Japan )	7333 points	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Anise Riahi ( Tunisia )	7257 points	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Decathlon not in the championship program

Existing records

World record	8891 points	Dan O'Brien ( USA )	Talence , France	August 6, 1992
Olympic record	8846 points	Daley Thompson ( Great Britain )	Los Angeles Decathlon , USA	August 9, 1984

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.

Remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• 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 attempts are printed in bold.

Attendees

Olympic champion Dan O'Brien from the USA

Silver medalist Frank Busemann, Germany

Bronze medalist Tomáš Dvořák from the Czech Republic

The Olympic sixth Erki Nool from Estonia

40 athletes from 25 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Nikolai Afanasiev	Russia
Eugenio Balanqué	Cuba
Francisco Benet	Spain
Frank Busemann	Germany
Sebastian Chmara	Poland
Kamil Damašek	Czech Republic
Marcel Dost	Netherlands
Raul Duany	Cuba
Tomáš Dvořák	Czech Republic
Scott Ferrier	Australia
Steve Fritz	United States
Ramil Gʻaniyev	Uzbekistan
Eduard Hämäläinen	Belarus
Victor Houston	Barbados
Philipp Huber	Switzerland
Chris Huffins	United States
Alper Kasapoğlu	Turkey
Indrek Kaseorg	Estonia
Vitaly Kolpakov	Ukraine
Alexander Kruger	Great Britain
Zsolt Kürtösi	Hungary
Sébastien Levicq	France
Lev Lobodin	Ukraine
Jón Arnar Magnússon	Iceland
Frank Mueller	Germany
Andrei Nazarov	Estonia
Erki Nool	Estonia
Dan O'Brien	United States
Dirk-Achim Pajonk	Germany
Antonio Peñalver	Spain
Douglas Pirini	New Zealand
Rojs Piziks	Latvia
Christian Plaziat	France
Beniamino Poserina	Italy
Jacobus Rosendaal	Netherlands
Mike Smith	Canada
Dezső Szabó	Hungary
Oleg Weretelnikov	Uzbekistan
Peter Winter	Australia
Robert Změlík	Czech Republic

Disciplines

100 meter run

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Run 1 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Houston 10.76 915 2 Dost 10.87 890 3 Poserina 11.05 850 4th Huber 11.06 847 5 Kasapoğlu 11.07 845 6th Kürtösi 11.09 841 7th Ferrier 11.26 804 8th Afanasiev 11.44 765 Run 2 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Gʻaniyev 10.84 897 2 winter 10.85 894 3 Szabó 10.94 874 4th Peñalver 10.95 872 5 Nazarov 11.04 852 6th Rosendaal 11.24 808 7th Chmara 11.28 799 8th Piziks 11.40 774 Run 3 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Změlík 10.83 899 2 Pirini 10.89 885 3 Fritz 10.90 883 4th Müller 10.95 872 5 Kolpakov 11.15 827 6th Levicq 11.17 823 7th Kruger 11.38 778 8th Kaseorg 11.40 774 Run 4 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Huffins 10.47 982 2 Pajonk 10.67 935 3 Magnússon 10.67 935 4th Balanqué 10.71 926 5 Placiat 10.85 894 6th Damašek 10.86 892 7th Weretelnikov 11.06 847 8th Duany 11.20 817 Run 5 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 O'Brien 10.50 975 2 Busemann 10.60 952 3 Dvořák 10.64 942 4th Nool 10.65 940 5 Hämäläinen 10.85 894 6th Lobodin 10.85 894 7th Benet 10.95 872 8th Smith 11.08 843

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Huffins 982 02 O'Brien 975 03 Busemann 952 04th Dvořák 942 05 Nool 940 06th Magnússon 935 Pajonk 08th Balanqué 926 09 Houston 915 10 Změlík 899 11 Gʻaniyev 897 12 Hämäläinen 894 Lobodin Placiat winter 16 Damašek 892 17th Dost 890 18th Pirini 885 19th Fritz 883 20th Szabó 874 21st Benet 872 Müller Peñalver 24 Nazarov 852 25th Poserina 850 26th Huber 847 Weretelnikov 28 Kasapoğlu 845 29 Smith 843 30th Kürtösi 841 31 Kolpakov 827 32 Levicq 823 33 Duany 817 34 Rosendaal 808 35 Ferrier 804 36 Chmara 799 37 Kruger 778 38 Kaseorg 774 Piziks 40 Afanasiev 765

Long jump

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Busemann 8.07 - - 1079 02 Placiat 7.82 7.44 x 1015 03 Fritz 7.77 7.60 7.49 1002 04th Chmara 7.75 7.44 x 997 05 Gʻaniyev x 7.32 7.61 962 06th Dvořák 7.60 x x 960 07th O'Brien 7.55 x 7.57 952 08th Kolpakov 7.53 x x 942 09 Hämäläinen x 6.11 7.48 930 10 Smith 7.38 7.47 x 927 11 Rosendaal 6.83 6.97 7.33 893 12 Magnússon 7.28 x 5.88 881 13 Peñalver 7.27 7.25 7.11 878 14th Kaseorg 7.26 x 7.21 876 15th Damašek 7.21 7.10 7.22 866 16 Ferrier x 6.44 6.61 723 17th Kruger 6.55 x 4.50 709 18th Balanqué 6.30 6.36 6.34 666 ogV Nazarov x x - 0 Szabó x x x Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Nool 7.88 7.55 7.55 1030 02 Změlík x 7.45 7.64 970 03 Houston x 7.18 7.53 942 04th Pajonk 7.50 7.35 7.24 935 05 Huffins x 7.49 x 932 06th Lobodin x x 7.35 898 07th Pirini 7.01 7.29 7.33 893 08th Duany 7.30 7.25 6.94 886 09 Benet 6.87 7.30 7.22 886 10 Müller 7.25 x x 874 11 Weretelnikov 6.94 7.24 7.06 871 12 Kasapoğlu 7.22 x 7.09 866 13 Dost 7.19 x 7.21 864 14th Levicq 7.06 x 7.16 852 15th Huber 7.15 6.57 x 850 16 Kürtösi 6.73 6.99 7.05 826 17th Poserina 6.98 6.95 x 809 18th Piziks 6.79 4.68 6.86 781 19th Afanasiev 6.35 6.74 6.59 753 ogV winter x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Busemann 2031 02 Nool 1970 03 O'Brien 1927 04th Huffins 1914 05 Placiat 1909 06th Dvořák 1902 07th Fritz 1885 08th Pajonk 1870 09 Změlík 1869 10 Gʻaniyev 1859 11 Houston 1857 12 Hämäläinen 1824 13 Magnússon 1816 14th Chmara 1796 15th Lobodin 1792 16 Pirini 1778 17th Smith 1770 18th Kolpakov 1769 19th Benet 1758 Damašek 21st Dost 1754 22nd Peñalver 1750 23 Müller 1746 24 Weretelnikov 1718 25th Kasapoğlu 1711 26th Duany 1703 27 Rosendaal 1701 28 Huber 1697 29 Levicq 1675 30th Kürtösi 1667 31 Poserina 1659 32 Kaseorg 1650 33 Balanqué 1592 34 Piziks 1555 35 Ferrier 1527 36 Afanasiev 1518 37 Kruger 1487 38 winter 894 39 Szabó 874 40 Nazaraov 852

Shot put

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Three participants did not take part in this third discipline: the Briton Alexander Kruger, the Estonian Andrei Nazarov and the Hungarian Dezső Szabó.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Smith 16.95 16.97 16.69 911 02 Peñalver 16.66 16.91 x 907 03 Hämäläinen 15.93 x 16.32 871 04th Dvořák 15.08 15.82 15.50 840 05 O'Brien 14.86 15.66 15.36 830 06th Magnússon 15.28 15.52 x 822 07th Damašek 15.24 15.51 x 821 08th Fritz 14.93 15.12 15.31 809 09 Ranked 14.85 x x 780 10 Gʻaniyev 14.71 14.44 x 772 11 Chmara 14.51 14.10 14.32 760 12 Kolpakov x 14.33 x 749 13 Balanqué 14.11 13.95 13.96 735 14th Busemann 13.49 13.60 13.08 704 15th Rosendaal 13.59 13.11 x 703 16 Kaseorg 12.46 12.44 13.11 674 17th Ferrier 12.05 12.57 12.12 641 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Lobodin 14.76 15.25 15.57 825 02 Huffins x 13.75 15.57 825 03 Pirini 14.75 x x 774 04th Müller 14.69 x x 771 05 Piziks 14.60 x x 765 06th Pajonk 14.30 14.46 14.36 757 07th Kürtösi 14.29 x x 746 08th Levicq 14.05 13.92 13.99 731 09 Nool 14.01 x 13.87 729 10 Dost 13.81 x 13.91 723 11 Benet 13.91 13.79 13.72 723 12 Duany 13.78 13.11 13.21 715 13 Změlík 13.53 x x 700 14th winter 13.43 x x 693 15th Afanasiev 13.38 x 12.79 690 16 Huber 12.61 13.34 12.74 688 17th Kasapoğlu 12.46 12.89 12.59 661 18th Weretelnikov 12.66 x x 647 19th Houston 11.82 11.97 11.42 605 ogV Poserina x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 2757 02 Dvořák 2742 03 Huffins 2739 04th Busemann 2735 05 Nool 2699 06th Hämäläinen 2695 07th Fritz 2694 08th Placiat 2689 09 Smith 2681 10 Peñalver 2657 11 Magnússon 2638 12 Gʻaniyev 2631 13 Pajonk 2627 14th Lobodin 2617 15th Damašek 2579 16 Změlík 2569 17th Chmara 2556 18th Pirini 2552 19th Kolpakov 2518 20th Müller 2517 21st Benet 2481 22nd Dost 2477 23 Houston 2462 24 Duany 2418 25th Kürtösi 2413 26th Levicq 2406 27 Rosendaal 2404 28 Huber 2385 29 Kasapoğlu 2372 30th Weretelnikov 2365 31 Balanqué 2327 32 Kaseorg 2324 33 Piziks 2320 34 Afanasiev 2208 35 Ferrier 2168 36 Poserina 1659 37 winter 1587

high jump

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

The two Australians Scott Ferrier and Peter Winter did not compete in this fourth discipline.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1.80 2.01 1.83 2.04 1.86 2.07 1.89 2.10 1.92 2.13 1.95 2.16 1.98 - Points 01 Gʻaniyev - o - xo - o - xo - o o xxx - - 925 02 Chmara - - - o - xo - o o xxx - - o - 896 03 O'Brien o o - o - o o xxx - - o - - - 868 04th Peñalver - o - xo o o - xxx o - xo - o - 05 Kaseorg - xo - o - x o o xxx o - o - o - 06th Kolpakov - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - o - - - 07th Busemann - o - o - xxx o - - - o - - - 840 Placiat - o - o - xxx - - - - o - - - 09 Fritz - xo - x o - xxx o - - - o - xo - 10 Damašek - x o - xxx o - - - o - o - o - 813 11 Nool - x o - xxx - - o - xxo - o - xo - 12 Dvořák - xxx - - o - o - xxo - o - o - 785 13 Hämäläinen o - - xxx - - - - xo - - - x o - 14th Magnússon - - - - o - - - xo - o - xxx - 758 15th Smith - - - - - - o - xo - xx o - xxx - 16 Balanqué - - xo - - - x o - xxx - - - - - 705 Group B space Surname 1.71 1.98 1.74 2.01 1.77 2.04 1.80 2.07 1.83 2.10 1.86 2.13 1.89 2.16 1.92 2.19 1.95 - Points 01 Piziks - - - o - o - xxo - xo - xxo - x o - xxx o - 953 02 Rosendaal - o - - - xxo - xx o - xxx - - - - o - - - 868 03 Duany - o o xo - o - xx o - xxx o - - - xxo - o - 04th Huffins - - - o - xx o - xxx - - - - o - - - o - 840 05 Kürtösi - xxo - x o - xxx - - - - o - - - o - xo - 813 06th Afanasiev - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - - - 785 Poserina - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - - - o - 08th Benet - xx o - xxx - - - - o - o - o - o - o - 09 Dost - xxx - - - - o - - - o - o - o - o - 758 Houston - - - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - - o - 11 Pajonk - xxx - - - - - - - - o - xo - o - o - 12 Lobodin - - - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - - x o - Müller - xxx - - - - - - - - - - o - - - x o - 14th Weretelnikov - xxx - - - - - - - - o - o - xo - xx o - 15th Změlík - xxx - - - - - - - - - - - - xxo - xx o - 16 Levicq - - - - - - - - - - o - xxo - o - xxx - 731 17th Kasapoğlu - - - - - - - - - - o - o - x o - xxx - 18th Pirini - - o - - - - - o - o - o - xxx - - - 705 19th Huber - - - - - - o - xxo - xx o - xxx - - - - - 679

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 3625 02 Huffins 3579 03 Busemann 3575 04th Gʻaniyev 3556 05 Fritz 3534 06th Ranked 3529 07th Dvořák 3527 08th Peñalver 3525 09 Nool 3512 10 Hämäläinen 3480 11 Chmara 3452 12 Smith 3439 13 Magnússon 3396 14th Damašek 3392 15th Kolpakov 3386 16 Pajonk 3385 17th Lobodin 3375 18th Změlík 3327 19th Duany 3286 20th Müller 3275 21st Piziks 3273 22nd Rosendaal 3272 23 Benet 3266 24 Pirini 3257 25th Dost 3235 26th Kürtösi 3226 27 Houston 3220 28 Kaseorg 3192 29 Levicq 3137 30th Weretelnikov 3123 31 Kasapoğlu 3103 32 Huber 3064 33 Balanqué 3032 34 Afanasiev 2993 35 Poserina 2444

400 meter run

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Victor Houston from Barbados did not participate in this fifth discipline.

Run 1 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Dost 48.19 900 2 Huber 48.72 875 3 Poserina 49.52 837 4th Kasapoğlu 49.61 833 5 Kürtösi 50.43 795 6th Afanasiev 50.83 777 Run 2 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Chmara 48.75 873 2 Gʻaniyev 49.14 855 3 Peñalver 50.41 796 4th Rosendaal 50.93 772 5 Piziks 51.48 748 Run 3 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Balanqué 47.46 935 2 Kolpakov 48.12 903 3 Pirini 48.56 882 4th Kaseorg 49.03 860 5 Müller 49.05 859 6th Změlík 49.55 835 7th Fritz 50.13 809 8th Levicq 50.55 789 Run 4 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Magnússon 47.17 950 2 Damašek 47.35 941 3 Pajonk 48.81 870 4th Huffins 48.83 869 5 Placiat 49.07 858 6th Weretelnikov 49.65 831 7th Duany 50.50 792 Run 5 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 O'Brien 46.82 967 2 Hämäläinen 46.91 963 3 Nool 47.26 945 4th Dvořák 48.29 895 5 Busemann 48.34 893 6th Benet 48.67 877 7th Lobodin 48.96 863 8th Smith 51.97 726

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 4592 02 Busemann 4468 03 Nool 4457 04th Huffins 4448 05 Hämäläinen 4443 06th Dvořák 4422 07th Gʻaniyev 4411 08th Placiat 4387 09 Magnússon 4346 10 Fritz 4343 11 Damašek 4333 12 Chmara 4325 13 Peñalver 4321 14th Kolpakov 4289 15th Pajonk 4255 16 Lobodin 4238 17th Smith 4165 18th Změlík 4162 19th Benet 4143 20th Pirini 4139 21st Dost 4135 22nd Müller 4134 23 Duany 4078 24 Kaseorg 4052 25th Rosendaal 4044 26th Kürtösi 4021 Piziks 28 Balanqué 3967 29 Weretelnikov 3954 30th Huber 3939 31 Kasapoğlu 3936 32 Levicq 3926 33 Afanasiev 3770 34 Poserina 3281

110 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

The Ukrainian Lev Lobodin and the Uzbek Oleg Veretelnikow did not take part in this sixth discipline.

Run 1 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Balanqué 14.07 965 2 Rosendaal 14.46 916 3 Kaseorg 14.53 907 4th Kasapoğlu 14.55 905 5 Poserina 14.68 889 6th Afanasiev 14.79 875 7th Piziks 15.20 825 Run 2 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Kolpakov 14.30 936 2 Levicq 14.50 911 3 Dost 14.52 908 4th Kürtösi 14.64 894 5 Duany 14.84 869 6th Müller 14.86 867 7th Pirini 14.88 864 8th Huber 15.08 840 Run 3 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Huffins 14.10 962 2 Magnússon 14.22 946 3 Benet 14.36 929 4th Chmara 14.59 900 5 Smith 14.78 876 6th Pajonk 14.79 875 7th Gʻaniyev 14.88 864 8th Damašek 14.94 857 9 Nool 15.03 846 Run 4 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Busemann 13.47 1044 2 Dvořák 13.79 1002 3 O'Brien 13.87 991 4th Hämäläinen 13.95 981 5 Fritz 13.97 978 6th Změlík 14.17 953 7th Peñalver 14.35 930 8th Placiat 14.52 908

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 5583 02 Busemann 5512 03 Dvořák 5424 Hämäläinen 05 Huffins 5410 06th Fritz 5321 07th Nool 5303 08th Placiat 5295 09 Magnússon 5292 10 Gʻaniyev 5275 11 Peñalver 5251 12 Chmara 5225 Kolpakov 14th Damašek 5190 15th Pajonk 5130 16 Změlík 5115 17th Benet 5072 18th Dost 5043 19th Smith 5041 20th Pirini 5003 21st Müller 5001 22nd Rosendaal 4960 23 Kaseorg 4959 24 Duany 4947 25th Balanqué 4932 26th Kürtösi 4915 27 Piziks 4846 28 Kasapoğlu 4841 29 Levicq 4837 30th Huber 4779 31 Afanasiev 4645 32 Poserina 4170

Discus throw

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Fritz 49.08 49.84 x 867 02 Hämäläinen 49.62 x x 862 03 Smith x 49.54 x 861 04th Peñalver 45.46 47.30 48.92 848 05 O'Brien 47.82 43.60 48.78 845 06th Dvořák 45.44 44.94 46.28 793 07th Placiat 45.34 43.94 x 774 08th Busemann 45.04 44.34 x 768 09 Levicq 43.92 45.00 44.90 767 10 Gʻaniyev 31.46 42.98 44.86 764 11 Magnússon 35.38 43.78 x 742 12 Změlík 43.44 42.66 x 735 13 Nool 35.98 x 42.98 725 14th Chmara 42.60 x x 718 15th Dost 39.66 40.04 41.92 704 16 Balanqué 39.76 41.64 41.22 698 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Huffins 48.48 48.72 x 844 02 Piziks 44.78 x 45.90 785 03 Müller 44.04 x 45.90 04th Kolpakov 45.54 x 45.66 780 05 Pirini 45.34 45.20 44.26 774 06th Benet x 44.30 x 752 07th Poserina 43.42 x 42.22 734 08th Huber 43.32 39.68 x 732 09 Kürtösi 43.22 42.76 40.62 730 10 Afanasiev 41.82 43.08 42.56 727 11 Damašek 42.66 x x 719 12 Pajonk 38.90 40.72 41.94 704 13 Rosendaal 40.62 x 41.24 690 14th Kasapoğlu 40.64 40.18 x 678 15th Kaseorg 39.46 39.44 x 654 16 Duany 36.22 37.10 38.56 635

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 6428 02 Hämäläinen 6286 03 Busemann 6280 04th Huffins 6254 05 Dvořák 6217 06th Fritz 6188 07th Peñalver 6099 08th Placiat 6069 09 Gʻaniyev 6039 10 Magnússon 6034 11 Nool 6028 12 Kolpakov 6005 13 Chmara 5943 14th Damašek 5909 15th Smith 5902 16 Změlík 5850 17th Pajonk 5834 18th Benet 5824 19th Müller 5786 20th Pirini 5777 21st Dost 5747 22nd Rosendaal 5650 23 Kürtösi 5645 24 Piziks 5631 25th Balanqué 5630 26th Kaseorg 5613 27 Levicq 5604 28 Duany 5582 29 Kasapoğlu 5519 30th Huber 5511 31 Afanasiev 5372 32 Poserina 4904

Pole vault

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

The Estonian Andrei Kaseorg did not take part in the eighth discipline.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 4.20 4.90 4.30 5.00 4.40 5.10 4.50 5.20 4.60 5.30 4.70 5.40 4.80 5.50 Points 01 Levicq - o - - - xo - - xo o - o - xxx 1035 02 Změlík - - - o - - - xo o xxo - o o xxx 03 Nool - - - o - - - o - - - xx o - xxx 04th Dost - - - o - o - o o xxx - - o - 972 05 Gʻaniyev - o - o - - - x o - xxx xxo - o - 06th Fritz - o xxo xxo - xx o o - xo - o - xo - 941 07th Smith - - - o - xxx - - xo - - - xo - 910 08th Hämäläinen - - - x o - - - xxx - - - - o - O'Brien - - - x o - xxx o - o - - - o - 10 Chmara - o - xxx - - o - - - xo - - - 880 11 Placiat - x o - xxx - - - - xo - - - xo - 12 Busemann o xxx - - - - xo - o - o - x o - 849 13 Magnússon - xxx - - o - - - o - o - xx o - 14th Dvořák - - o - - - o - o - o - xxx - 819 15th Peñalver o - - - o - xxo - xo - o - xxx - 16 Balanqué - - - - o - - - o - x o - xxx - Group B space Surname 4.00 4.70 4.10 4.80 4.20 4.90 4.30 5.00 4.40 5.10 4.50 5.20 4.60 - Points 01 Müller - xo - - - xo - xo o o - xxx - - 941 02 Piziks - o - o - xo - xx o - xxx xo - - - 910 03 Damašek - o - xo - o - xxx o - - - xo - 880 04th Benet - o - o - xxx - - o - - - xo - 849 05 Kolpakov - xo - x o - xxx - - xo - - - o - 06th Kasapoğlu - - - xx o - xxx - - o - - - xxo - 07th Poserina - - - xx o o - - xxx xxo - - - xxo - 08th Huffins - o - xxx - - o - - - o - - - 819 09 Rosendaal - xx o - xxx o - - - xo - - - o - 10 Huber - xxx - - - - - - o - - - o - 790 11 Kürtösi - xxx - - xo - - - o - - - o - 12 Pirini - xxx xo - - - o - - - xo - o - 13 Pajonk - - - - o - - - xo - x o - xxx - 760 14th Duany xxo - o - o - xxo - o - xxx - - - 731 ogV Afanasiev - - - - - - - - - - xxx - - - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 7338 02 Hämäläinen 7196 03 Busemann 7129 Fritz 05 Huffins 7073 06th Nool 7063 07th Dvořák 7036 08th Gʻaniyev 7011 09 Placiat 6949 10 Peñalver 6918 11 Změlík 6885 12 Magnússon 6883 13 Kolpakov 6854 14th Chmara 6823 15th Smith 6812 16 Damašek 6789 17th Müller 6727 18th Dost 6719 19th Benet 6673 20th Levicq 6639 21st Pajonk 6594 22nd Pirini 6567 23 Piziks 6541 24 Rosendaal 6469 25th Balanqué 6449 26th Kürtösi 6435 27 Kasapoğlu 6368 28 Duany 6313 29 Huber 6301 30th Poserina 5753 31 Afanasiev 5372

Javelin throw

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Dvořák 70.16 63.70 - 892 02 Busemann 66.86 61.88 64.70 842 03 Duany 62.86 62.40 x 781 04th Magnússon x 60.60 61.10 754 05 Balanqué 57.56 59.92 58.80 737 06th Pirini 58.02 x x 708 07th Peñalver 56.34 57.08 54.62 694 08th Afanasiev 50.88 52.32 55.12 665 09 Chmara 48.08 49.02 54.84 661 10 Kürtösi 49.96 51.40 54.80 660 11 Pajonk 50.28 50.68 54.16 650 12 Placiat 50.44 52.12 52.18 621 13 Huber 50.08 51.96 x 618 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Změlík 62.90 67.20 64.60 847 02 O'Brien 64.62 64.32 66.90 842 03 Müller 62.48 66.10 64.88 830 04th Fritz 64.18 65.70 x 824 05 Nool 65.48 61.30 x 821 06th Levicq 64.42 60.64 59.48 805 07th Smith 62.24 63.94 64.34 803 08th Rosendaal 60.98 57.40 63.80 795 09 Huffins 55.58 60.62 x 747 10 Benet 58.56 59.44 58.84 729 11 Piziks 54.26 55.28 58.40 714 12 Dost 57.76 - - 704 13 Hämäläinen 57.66 53.64 54.14 703 14th Poserina 56.78 - - 690 15th Damašek x 55.84 55.10 675 16 Gʻaniyev 51.34 53.70 52.96 644 17th Kolpakov 53.58 51.28 - 642 18th Kasapoğlu 45.24 x 44.60 518

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 O'Brien 8180 02 Busemann 7971 03 Fritz 7953 04th Dvořák 7928 05 Hämäläinen 7899 06th Nool 7884 07th Huffins 7820 08th Změlík 7732 09 Gʻaniyev 7655 10 Magnússon 7637 11 Smith 7615 12 Peñalver 7612 13 Placiat 7570 14th Müller 7557 15th Kolpakov 7496 16 Chmara 7484 17th Damašek 7464 18th Levicq 7444 19th Dost 7423 20th Benet 7402 21st Pirini 7275 22nd Rosendaal 7264 23 Piziks 7255 24 Pajonk 7244 25th Balanqué 7186 26th Kürtösi 7095 27 Duany 7094 28 Huber 6919 29 Kasapoğlu 6886 30th Poserina 6443 31 Afanasiev 6037

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Run 1 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Huber 4: 18.15 824 2 Pajonk 4: 21.62 801 3 Rosendaal 4: 25.98 771 4th Duany 4: 35.59 708 5 Kasapoğlu 4: 38.69 689 6th Balanqué 4: 38.97 687 7th Pirini 4: 39.09 686 8th Afanasiev 4: 41.00 647 9 Kürtösi 4: 43.21 660

Run 2 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Damašek 4: 26.86 765 2 Chmara 4: 26.96 765 3 Levicq 4: 29.50 748 4th Piziks 4: 30.88 739 5 Placiat 4: 35.00 712 6th Benet 4: 36.04 705 7th Müller 4: 37.50 696 8th Peñalver 4: 37.71 695 9 Dost 4: 38.81 688 10 Smith 4: 43.81 656 11 Poserina 4: 58.28 570

Run 3 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Dvořák 4: 31.25 736 2 Busemann 4: 31.41 735 3 Hämäläinen 4: 34.68 714 4th Fritz 4: 38.26 691 5 Změlík 4: 38.45 690 6th Gʻaniyev 4: 42.74 663 7th Nool 4: 43.36 659 8th O'Brien 4: 45.89 644 9 Magnússon 4: 46.97 637 10 Huffins 5: 14.36 480

Summary

Date: July 31/1. August 1996

The American world champion and world record holder Dan O'Brien was the top favorite for the Olympic victory. Other medal contenders were the Belarusian vice world champion Eduard Hämäläinen, the Canadian world championship third Mike Smith, the Estonian Erki Nool as world championship fourth and the two Czechs Robert Změlík, Olympic champion in 1992 , and Tomáš Dvořák, world championship fifth.

After the first discipline, the 100-meter run , the US athlete Chris Huffins, who had achieved 10.47 s, led with 982 points. O'Brien was seven points behind him, another eighteen points behind was the German Frank Busemann.

Busemann achieved a new best performance in the long jump with 8.07 m in an Olympic decathlon. He took the lead after the second discipline with 2031 points. Nool was second with 1970 points, O'Brien was third with 1927 points, Huffins fourth with 1914 points.

The best shot putter was Smith, who achieved the greatest distance in an Olympic decathlon with 16.97 m. Busemann and Nool fell back to fourth and fifth, while O'Brien took the lead with 2757 points. Dvořák was fifteen points behind in third place, another three points behind him was Huffins, four points behind Busemann. The decathletes were still close together.

With 2.16 m the Latvian Rojs Piziks was the best high jumper in the field. O'Brien extended his lead to 46 points here. Second was Huffins, who was four points ahead of Busemann. Dvořák meanwhile fell back to seventh place.

The last discipline of the first day of the decathlon was the 400-meter run . O'Brien was the only one who stayed under 47 seconds. He extended his lead and was now 124 points ahead of Busemann, who was able to push past Huffins. Nool was also now in third place ahead of Huffins. Behind Huffins, the Belarusian Eduard Hämäläinen followed in fifth place ahead of Dvořák. O'Brien's half-time result was excellent with 4592 points, even more amazing were the 4468 points that outsider Busemann had on his half-time account.

Busemann achieved another Olympic best in an Olympic decathlon with 13.47 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles . This enabled him to reduce the gap to O'Brien to 71 points. 88 points behind Busemann, Dvořák and Hämäläinen were tied in third place. It remained tight and high-quality.

After the discus throw , O'Brien increased his lead to 142 points. Hämäläinen, who was six points ahead of Busemann, now followed in second place. Huffins pushed past Dvořák again to fourth place. US athlete Steve Fritz, who achieved the best distance in this discipline, was sixth behind the Czech.

The strongest pole vaulters were Nool, Změlík and the French Sébastien Levicq, who crossed an excellent 5,40 m. O'Brien's lead remained unchanged. Busemann had lost another 61 points and was now together with Fritz 67 points behind Hämäläinen in third place. Huffins, Nool and Dvořák followed.

Dvořák was the only athlete who exceeded the 70-meter mark in the javelin throw . He was able to work his way up to fourth place. He was now 25 points behind Fritz and 29 points ahead of Hämäläinen. Busemann achieved the second best distance with 66.86 m, which brought him back to second place. O'Brien was now 209 points ahead of Busemann, who was eighteen points ahead of Fritz. The favorite from the USA had now clearly separated. In the fight for the other medals, however, it remained very close until the end.

For the final 1500 meter run , this meant that O'Brien was allowed to run thirty seconds slower than Busemann in order to become Olympic champion. To improve his own world record , O'Brien needed 711 points, the equivalent of 4:35 minutes. The American was not a very good middle distance athlete , it was to be seen that it would be difficult for him to reach this time. But his victory was out of the question.

The fastest runner was the Swiss Philipp Huber, who needed 4: 18.15 minutes. Dan O'Brien defended his lead and became the eleventh US Olympic champion in the decathlon. Silver went to Frank Busemann, who was able to reduce his deficit to 114 points. He was the biggest surprise of this decathlon, because nobody had expected him that far ahead. Tomáš Dvořák finished third, displacing Steve Fritz by twenty points from bronze. Eduard Hämäläinen was fifth, ahead of Erki Nool and Robert Změlík.

This decathlon was of an exceptionally high level. The world and Olympic records were narrowly missed, but Dan O'Brien's result was of high quality. The athletes behind him also impressed with their performances. The fifth even surpassed the mark of 8,600 points, and 22 athletes had more than 8,000 points in their accounts.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Dan O'Brien	United States	8824
2	Frank Busemann	Germany	8706
3	Tomáš Dvořák	Czech Republic	8664
4th	Steve Fritz	United States	8644
5	Eduard Hämäläinen	Belarus	8613
6th	Erki Nool	Estonia	8543
7th	Robert Změlík	Czech Republic	8422
8th	Ramil Gʻaniyev	Uzbekistan	8313
9	Antonio Peñalver	Spain	8307
10	Chris Huffins	United States	8300
11	Christian Plaziat	France	8282
12	Jón Arnar Magnússon	Iceland	8274
13	Mike Smith	Canada	8271
14th	Frank Mueller	Germany	8253
15th	Sebastian Chmara	Poland	8249
16	Kamil Damašek	Czech Republic	8229
17th	Sébastien Levicq	France	8192
18th	Marcel Dost	Netherlands	8111
19th	Francisco Benet	Spain	8107
20th	Dirk-Achim Pajonk	Germany	8045
21st	Jacobus Rosendaal	Netherlands	8035
22nd	Vitaly Kolpakov	Ukraine	8025
23	Rojs Piziks	Latvia	7994
24	Douglas Pirini	New Zealand	7961
25th	Eugenio Balanqué	Cuba	7873
26th	Raul Duany	Cuba	7802
27	Zsolt Kürtösi	Hungary	7755
28	Philipp Huber	Switzerland	7743
29	Alper Kasapoğlu	Turkey	7575
30th	Beniamino Poserina	Italy	7013
31	Nikolai Afanasiev	Russia	6711

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 40– 43

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed March 5, 2018
• Official Report, Part III, on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , pp. 96-101, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 5, 2018

Video

• Men's Decathalon Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 5, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 681 , accessed on March 5, 2018
2. ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 96–101, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 17, 2018 
3. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (long jump) , accessed on March 5, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference Decathlon (shot put) , accessed March 5, 2018
5. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (110 m hurdles) , accessed on March 5, 2018