2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Decathlon | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 36 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 27./28. September 2000 | ||||||||
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The men's decathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 27 and 28, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 36 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Erki Nool from Estonia . He won ahead of the Czech Roman Šebrle and the American Chris Huffins .
With Frank Busemann , Mike Maczey and Stefan Schmid , three Germans took part in the competition. Busemann was seventh, Schmid ninth and Maczey 25th.
The Austrian Klaus Ambrosch was eighteenth, the Swiss Philipp Huber no longer competed in the second discipline.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1996 |
Dan O'Brien ( USA )
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8824 points | Atlanta 1996 |
| World Champion 1999 |
Tomáš Dvořák ( Czech Republic )
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8744 points | Seville 1999 |
| European champion 1998 |
Erki Nool ( Estonia )
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8667 points | Budapest 1998 |
| Pan American Champion 1999 |
Chris Huffins ( USA )
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8170 points | Winnipeg 1999 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Decathlon not in the championship program | ||
| South American Champion 1999 | Santiago Lorenzo ( Argentina )
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7344 points | Bogotá 1999 |
| Asian champion 2000 | Hitoshi Maruono ( Japan )
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7321 points | Jakarta 2000 |
| African Champion 2000 | Rédouane Youcef ( Algeria )
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7129 points | Algiers 2000 |
| Oceania Champion 2000 | Decathlon not in the championship program | ||
Existing records
| World record | 8994 points |
Tomáš Dvořák ( Czech Republic )
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Prague , Czech Republic | 4th July 1999 |
| Olympic record | 8846 points |
Daley Thompson ( Great Britain )
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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 based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
- In the shot put, discus and javelin throw as well as in the long jump, the respective best distances are printed in bold.
- In the high jump and pole vault, the last valid attempt is printed in bold.
Attendees
38 athletes from 23 countries took part in the Olympic competition:
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Disciplines
100 meter run
The discipline was carried out in five runs.
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Run 1 September 27, 2000, 9:00 a.m. - wind +0.2 m / s
Run 2 September 27, 2000, 9:06 a.m. - wind +0.4 m / s
Run 3 September 27, 2000, 9:12 a.m. - wind +0.4 m / s
Run 4 September 27, 2000, 9:18 a.m. - wind +0.4 m / s
Run 5 < September 27, 2000, 9:24 a.m. - wind −1.1 m / s
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Intermediate result
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Long jump
September 27, 2000, 10:00 a.m.
The competition was conducted in two groups.
The Swiss Philipp Huber and the Uzbek Oleg Weretelnikow did not take part in this second discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A
Group B
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Intermediate result
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Shot put
September 27, 2000, 12:00 p.m.
The competition was conducted in two groups. > The Spaniard Francisco Javier Benet did not compete in this third discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A
Group B
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Intermediate result
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high jump
September 27, 2000, 6:00 p.m.
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
Five athletes did not compete in this fourth discipline: the Cypriot Georgios Andreou, the Finn Aki Heikkinen, the Norwegian Trond Høiby, the French Sébastien Levicq and the Icelandic Jón Arnar Magnússon.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A
Group B
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Intermediate result
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400 meter run
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
The Russian Roman Rasbeiko and the Australian Scott Ferrier did not compete in this fifth discipline.
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Run 1 September 27, 2000, 9:15 pm
Run 2 September 27, 2000, 9:21 p.m.
Run 3 September 27, 2000, 9:37 pm
Run 4 September 27, 2000, 9:43 pm
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Intermediate result
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110 meter hurdles
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The discipline was carried out in four runs.
The Greek Prodromos Korkizoglou did not take part in this sixth discipline.
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Run 1 September 28, 2000, 9:00 a.m. - wind −0.3 m / s
Run 2 September 28, 2000, 9:08 a.m. - wind −0.1 m / s
Run 3 September 28, 2000, 9:16 a.m. - wind 0.0 m / s
Run 4 September 28, 2000, 9:24 a.m. - wind −1.4 m / s
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Intermediate result
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Discus throw
The competition was conducted in two groups.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A September 28, 2000, 10:10 a.m.
Group B September 28, 2000, 12:10 p.m.
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Intermediate result
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Pole vault
September 28, 2000, 3:30 p.m.
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A
Group B
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Intermediate result
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Javelin throw
The competition was conducted in two groups.
The Cuban Eugenio Balanqué and the Jamaican Claston Bernard did not compete in this ninth discipline.
Note: All widths in meters (m)
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Group A September 28, 2000, 6:00 p.m.
Group B September 28, 2000, 7:30 p.m.
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Intermediate result
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1500 meter run
The discipline was carried out in two runs.
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Run 1 September 28, 2000, 9:20 pm
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Run 2 September 28, 2000, 9:30 p.m.
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Summary
The Czech world champion and world record holder Tomáš Dvořák was the favorite . The Estonian European Champion Erki Nool was seen as the strongest opponent . Other promising candidates were the British Vice World Champion Dean Macey and the World Cup third Chris Huffins from the USA. Although the German silver medalist Frank Busemann started in Atlanta in 1996 , he had to fight injuries beforehand, so that he was not given a medal chance.
The first discipline, the 100-meter run , was dominated by Huffins. With his time of 10.48 s he was able to take the top position with a 47 point lead over Nool.
Macey was the best long jumper . At 7.77 m, he jumped an inch farther than Nool, whose performance was two inches better than Huffins'. With that, Nool came close to the US athlete on 34 points. Macey was 28 points behind Nool in third. Another 54 points behind followed Busemann in fourth place, eight points ahead of the Czech Roman Šebrle. Dvořák was sixth. So the gaps were still very close.
In the shot put Dvořák improved to fourth place with 15.91 m. Huffins maintained his lead, Nool had lost another ten points to him. Macey was still third, 48 points behind Nool and 19 in front of Dvořák. Šebrle had ousted Busemann to sixth place.
With 2.21 m the American Tom Pappas achieved the best result in the high jump . Huffins stayed ahead, Pappas had advanced to second and was 62 points behind his compatriot. Šebrle, who had reached the second-best height with 2.12 m, followed 37 points behind Pappas in third before Macey, who was only three more points behind. Nool was fifth, now 128 points behind Huffins. Busemann was sixth, Dvořák seventh.
The last discipline of the first day was the 400-meter run , in which Macey ran the fastest time with 46.41 s. Huffins was still at the top, but his lead had shrunk. Macey was only eight points behind the US athlete and 41 points ahead of Nool. Pappas had dropped to fourth place, 29 points behind the Estonians. Šebrle fell back to fifth, Busemann and Dvořák held their positions.
The gaps at the end of the first day were still very close. There were less than a hundred points between first and fifth place. The level of competition was extremely high up to then.
Šebrle was the best hurdler , setting the fastest time with 13.87 s. He and Huffins (13.91 s) were the only runners who finished under 14 seconds. Huffins was able to extend his lead again. He was now 87 points ahead of Macey, who in turn was only two points ahead of Šebrle. Pappas followed 20 points back in fourth place, Nool another 13 points behind in fifth in front of Busemann and Dvořák.
49.55 m was the record that was achieved in the discus throw by Huffins. He extended his lead further and was 196 points ahead of second-placed Šebrle. It was followed by Macey (215 points back), Nool (244 points back) and Pappas (275 points back). Busemann had dropped to ninth place. In this seventh discipline, the gaps increased significantly and it looked very good, especially for Huffins at the top.
The Danish Henrik Dagård and the German Mike Maczey were the best pole vaulters . Both reached a height of 5.10 m. Nool had pushed past Šebrle and Macey into second place. He shortened his deficit on Huffins to 153 points. Nool was 13 points ahead of Šebrle and 32 points ahead of Macey.
In the javelin throw Dvořák achieved the greatest distance with 69.94 m. Nool came up to 14 points on Huffins, Šebrle up to 57. Macey, Pappas, Dvořák and Busemann followed in seventh place. The larger gaps between Huffins and his opponents after the seventh discipline had shrunk again and the race for Olympic gold was open again.
The starting position before the final competition, the 1500 meter run , was such that Huffins could not run more than two seconds slower than Nool in order to be able to keep the lead. Šebrle had to be nine seconds faster than Huffins and six seconds faster than Nool to become an Olympic champion. The two scheduled races were put together according to the previous placements, so that the competitors who were close together had an eye on each other and did not have to align their races to any time specifications.
The American Kip Janvrin was the fastest 1500 meter runner in the field. In the first run he achieved 4: 17.81 minutes. Roman Šebrle crossed the finish line in 4: 28.79 minutes in the second race, in which the best placed athletes started. Since Huffins needed 4: 38.71 minutes, the Czech passed the US athlete and won silver, while Chris Huffins got the bronze medal. Erki Nool scored 4: 29.48 minutes and was Olympic champion with a 35 point lead. Dean Macey was just 28 points behind Huffins fourth, Tom Pappas was fifth. Tomáš Dvořák finished sixth, Frank Busemann seventh.
Overall, the performance of the second day lagged significantly behind that of the first, so that the points achieved in the end were slightly lower than perhaps expected after the half of the competition. The gaps, especially from first to fourth, between which there were less than a hundred points, were very close overall.
Erki Nool was the first Estonian Olympic champion in athletics.
Bottom line
| space | Surname | nation | Points | annotation |
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| 1 | Erki Nool |
Estonia
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8641 | |
| 2 | Roman Šebrle |
Czech Republic
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8606 | |
| 3 | Chris Huffins |
United States
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8595 | |
| 4th | Dean Macey |
Great Britain
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8567 | |
| 5 | Tom Pappas |
United States
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8425 | |
| 6th | Tomáš Dvořák |
Czech Republic
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8385 | |
| 7th | Frank Busemann |
 Germany
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8351 | |
| 8th | Attila Zsivoczky |
 Hungary
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8277 | |
| 9 | Stefan Schmid |
Germany
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8206 | |
| 10 | Henrik Dagård |
 Denmark
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8178 | |
| 11 | Zsolt Kürtösi |
Hungary
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8149 | |
| 12 | Mário Aníbal |
 Portugal
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8136 | NO |
| 13 | Lev Lobodin |
 Russia
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8071 | |
| 14th | Jiří Ryba |
Czech Republic
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8056 | |
| 15th | Raul Duany |
 Cuba
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8054 | |
| 16 | Oleksandr Jurkov |
 Ukraine
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7993 | |
| 17th | Indrek Kaseorg |
Estonia
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7932 | |
| 18th | Klaus Ambrosch |
 Austria
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7917 | |
| 19th | Laurent Hernu |
 France
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7909 | |
| 20th | Wilfrid Boulineau |
France
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7821 | |
| 21st | Kip Janvrin |
United States
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7726 | |
| 22nd | Volodymyr Mychailenko |
Ukraine
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7676 | |
| 23 | Fedor Lauchin |
Ukraine
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7652 | |
| 24 | Eduard Hämäläinen |
 Finland
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7520 | |
| 25th | Mike Maczey |
Germany
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7228 |
literature
- Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 64f
Web links
- SportsReference Decathlon , accessed April 3, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 3, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 3, 2018
Video
- The Sydney Olympics Part 3 | Olympic History , Decathlon, posted August 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 681 , accessed on April 3, 2018
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