2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Decathlon | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 39 athletes from 26 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 23/24 August 2004 | ||||||||
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The decathlon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was played on August 23 and 24, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Roman Šebrle from the Czech Republic. He won ahead of the American Bryan Clay and the Kazakhs Dmitri Karpov .
With Florian Schönbeck , Stefan Drews and Dennis Leyckes , three German participants started. Schönbeck was twelfth and Drews nineteen. Leyckes gave up the competition after the fourth discipline.
The Austrian Roland Schwarzl came in tenth.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.
Current title holders
| Olympic Champion 2000 |
Erki Nool ( Estonia )
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8641 P | Sydney 2000 |
| World Champion 2003 |
Tom Pappas ( USA )
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8750 P | Paris 2003 |
| European Champion 2002 |
Roman Šebrle ( Czech Republic )
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8800 P | Munich 2002 |
| Pan American Champion 2003 |
Stephen Moore ( USA )
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7809 P | Santo Domingo 2003 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | Yonelvis Águila ( Cuba )
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7337 P | St. George’s 2003 |
| South American Champion 2003 | Édson Bindilatti ( Brazil )
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7254 P | Barquisimeto 2003 |
| Asian champion 2003 | Vitali Smirnov ( Uzbekistan )
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8021 P | Manila 2003 |
| African champion 2004 | Anise Riahi ( Tunisia )
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7200 P | Brazzaville 2004 |
| Oceania Champion 2002 | Nathan Baart ( Australia )
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3078 P - pentathlon | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
| World record | 9026 points |
Roman Šebrle ( Czech Republic )
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Götzis , Austria | May 27, 2001 |
| 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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
- 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 of each athlete is printed in bold.
Attendees
39 athletes from 26 countries took part in the Olympic competition:
Disciplines
100 meter run
The discipline was carried out in five runs.
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Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
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Intermediate result
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Long jump
August 23, 2004, 10:15 am
The competition was held in two groups.
The Czech Tomáš Dvořák did not participate 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
August 23, 2004, 1:15 pm
The competition was held in two groups.
The Russian Lev Lobodin did not take part 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
August 23, 2004, 6:30 pm
The discipline was carried out in two groups.
The Icelander Jón Arnar Magnússon and the Estonian Kristjan Rahnu no longer competed in this fourth 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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400 meter run
The discipline was carried out in five runs.
The German Dennis Leyckes did not take part in this fifth discipline.
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Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
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Intermediate result
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110 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in five runs.
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Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
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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
Group B
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Intermediate result
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Pole vault
August 24, 2003, 1:45 pm
The discipline was carried out 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.
Luiggy Llanos from Puerto Rico, the Uzbek Pawel Andrejew and the American Tom Pappas did not take part in this ninth 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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1500 meter run
The discipline was carried out in two runs.
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Run 1
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Run 2
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Summary
There were two favorites for this competition: a duel was expected between the Czech world record holder , runner-up world champion and silver medalist of the last games in Sydney Roman Šebrle and the reigning world champion Tom Pappas from the United States. The Estonian Olympic champion from 2000 Erki Nool and the Czech world champion from 2001 Tomáš Dvořák were also there again here in Athens , but were no longer quite the form from their years of great success. Other candidates for medals or top placements were the World Cup third Dmitri Karpow from Kazakhstan, the US American Bryan Clay and the British World Cup third from 2001 Dean Macey.
Over 100 meters , the first discipline, Clay - 10.44 s, Karpov - 10.50 s - and the Russian Nikolai Averyanov - 10.55 s were fastest in the third run. The top favorites Pappas and Šebrle were clearly behind with times in the range of 10.80 s.
Clay was also the best decathlete in the long jump with 7.96 m. Šebrle was not far behind with 7.84 m, the third best distance was achieved by Karpow with 7.81 m, and the Dutchman Chiel Warners also showed a good performance with 7.74 m. Clay had fully played out his strengths and led with 2039 points. He was 52 points ahead of Karpov, 97 points ahead of Warners and 125 points ahead of Šebrle.
In the shot put , Šebrle with 16.36 m and Pappas with 16.17 m as the best of this exercise exceeded the 16-meter mark. Karpov - 15.93 m, Macey - 15.73 m - and the Belarusian Alexander Pachomenko - 15.69 m - were the next-placed athletes. Clay also showed a good performance with 15.23 m and maintained his lead with 2843 points. The distances were now closer, however. Karpow was second, only nine points behind, while Šebrle was also third, only 56 points closer to Clay. Behind them were Warners and Pappas, a little further apart.
In the high jump there were four athletes who jumped higher than 2.10 m. Macey was the best with 2.15 m. The Hungarian Attila Zsivoczky, the Jamaican Claston Bernard and Šebrle each achieved 2.12 m, Karpow had 2.09 m at the end, Clay 2.06 m, while Pappas, who had managed 2.21 m four years earlier , this time had to be satisfied with 2.03 m. With that, Karpow took the lead with 37621 points. He was leading ahead of Šebrle and Clay, who were both 19 points behind. They were followed by Macey - 30 points behind, Bernard - 68 points - and Pappas - 117 points.
In the 400-meter run , the final discipline of the first day, Karpov consolidated his lead. With 46.81 s he was the only one to break the 47-second mark. The next best decathletes, Pappas and Warners, were more than a second behind him. Šebrle stayed within his possibilities with 48.36 s, while Clay now clearly lost ground with 49.19 s. Macey was also only a little faster with 48.97 s. After five disciplines, Karpov led with an excellent 4689 points and had thus worked out a lead of 95 points on Šebrle. Clay was third, fifty points behind Šebrle. Another hundred points back, Macey was fourth ahead of Pappas - 274 points behind Karpow.
On the second day, the trend from the end of the first day continued at the top. Over 110 meter hurdles Karpow was the only decathlete to stay under fourteen seconds with 13.97 seconds. The closest to him came Warners, the Jamaican Maurice Smith and the German Stefan Drews with 14.01 s each. But Šebrle and Clay were not far behind with 14.05 s and 14.13 s respectively. Karpov, who now had 5676 points on his account, extended his lead to 105 points ahead of Šebrle. The order behind it had hardly changed. Clay was third, 164 points behind. Pappas in fourth, Bernard in fifth and Warners in sixth were already more than two hundred points behind the leader.
Karpov continued where he left off in the discus throw . The record he achieved was 51.65 m. Clay was also very strong with 50.11 m. Behind were Smith with 49.02 m, Šebrle with 48.72 m, the Italian Paolo Casarsa with 48.66 m, Macey with 48.34 m and Pappas with 47.39 m. In the interim standings, things always looked better for Karpov, who had now reached 6572 points. This was followed by Šebrle - 166 P back, Clay - 287 P, Macey - 379 P, Pappas - 390 P - and Bernard - 449 P back.
The eighth exercise, the pole vault , slowed Karpov's high altitude flight considerably. When he jumped 4.60 m, he was in this discipline at the end. The best pole vaulter was Nool with 5.40 m, the American Paul Terek scored 5.30 m, the Austrian Roland Schwarzl 5.10 m. Drews, the Russian Alexander Pogorelow, the German Florian Schönbeck and Šebrle jumped exactly 5.00 m. Clay and Warners each reach 4.90 m. Karpov was still at the top with 7362 points. Šebrle was only 36 points behind. Clay had also moved up to 97 points. Behind that, the gap to the top was still considerable. Warners was fourth, ahead of Macey and Bernard.
At the javelin throw , Šebrle and Clay were the best. Šebrle achieved the greatest distance with 70.52 m, Clay was not far behind with 69.71 m. Karpow threw 55.54 m and lost his lead, Šebrle and Clay pulled past him. After the penultimate exercise, Šebrle had taken the lead with 8213 points. Clay was 63 points behind him, while Karpow was 180 points behind in third. Warners and Macey followed well behind, Zsivoczky was now sixth and Nool seventh. This made Šebrle the clear candidate for the gold medal. Both he and Clay were not top runners in the middle distance and the gap to the next places was just too big.
The Argentine Santiago Lorenzo was the fastest 1,500 meter runner in the field. In the first run he achieved 4: 23.08 minutes. Šebrle crossed the finish line in 4: 40.01 minutes in the second race, in which the best placed athletes started. Clay was right behind him in 4: 41.65 min and Karpow achieved two places ahead of Šebrle 4: 38.11 min. The three athletes were thus in the back field of the second race, which the French Laurent Hernu won in 4: 24.35 minutes, but had won the medals due to their previously large lead. Roman Šebrle set a new Olympic record as Olympic champion with 8893 points . Bryan Clay won silver 73 points behind him, and Dmitri Karpow was bronze medalist 95 points behind. Fourth place went to Dean Macey. His gap on Šebrle was 479 points. Chiel Warners followed in fifth and Attila Zsivoczky in sixth. Laurent Hernu's strong 1500 meter run brought him to seventh place ahead of Erki Nool, Claston Bernard and Roland Schwarzl.
After Robert Změlík's gold medal in 1992 - at that time still for Czechoslovakia - this was the second Olympic victory for a Czech decathlete.
Bottom line
| space | Surname | nation | Points | annotation |
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| 1 | Roman Šebrle |
Czech Republic
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8893 | OR |
| 2 | Bryan Clay |
United States
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8820 | |
| 3 | Dmitry Karpov |
 Kazakhstan
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8725 | |
| 4th | Dean Macey |
Great Britain
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8414 | |
| 5 | Chiel Warners |
 Netherlands
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8343 | |
| 6th | Attila Zsivoczky |
 Hungary
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8287 | |
| 7th | Laurent Hernu |
 France
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8237 | |
| 8th | Erki Nool |
Estonia
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8235 | |
| 9 | Claston Bernard |
 Jamaica
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8225 | |
| 10 | Roland Schwarzl |
 Austria
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8102 | |
| 11 | Alexander Pogorelow |
 Russia
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8084 | |
| 12 | Florian Schönbeck |
 Germany
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8077 | |
| 13 | Romain Barras |
France
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8067 | |
| 14th | Maurice Smith |
Jamaica
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8023 | |
| 15th | Nikolai Averianov |
Russia
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8021 | |
| 16 | Jaakko Ojaniemi |
 Finland
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8006 | |
| 17th | Vitali Smirnov |
Uzbekistan
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7993 | |
| 18th | Qi Haifeng |
 People's Republic of China
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7934 | |
| 19th | Laurent Hernu |
France
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7926 | |
| 20th | Stefan Drews |
Germany
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7821 | |
| 21st | Paul Terek |
United States
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7893 | |
| 22nd | David Gomez |
 Spain
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7865 | |
| 23 | Indrek Turi |
Estonia
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7708 | |
| 24 | Santiago Lorenzo |
 Argentina
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7592 | |
| 25th | Janis Karlivans |
 Latvia
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7582 | |
| 26th | Prodromos Korkizoglou |
 Greece
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7573 | |
| 27 | Hans Olav Uldal |
 Norway
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7495 | |
| 28 | Paolo Casarsa |
 Italy
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7404 | |
| 29 | Eugene Martineau |
Netherlands
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7185 | |
| 30th | Victor Covalenco |
 Moldova
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7573 |
Gold medalist Roman Šebrle, Czech Republic
Bronze medalist Dmitry Karpov, Kazakhstan
The Dutchman Chiel Warners finished fifth in the final
The Austrian Olympic tenth Roland Schwarzl
Web links
- SportsReference Decathlon , accessed May 2, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 2, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 2, 2018
Videos
- 2004 Olympics Decathlon - 1st - Roman Sebrle , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- 2004 Olympics Decathlon - 2nd - Bryan Clay , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 2, 2018
- ↑ IAAF World Records, Decathlon Men , accessed on May 2, 2018
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