Kevin Mayer decathlon world record

Kevin Mayer Decathlon

Mayer broke the record previously set by Ashton Eaton.

Kevin Mayer Break Down of points

Day 1 (15 September)

• 100m 10.55 963 points
• Long Jump 7.80m  1010 points
• Shotput 16.00m 851 points
• High Jump 2.05m 850 points
• 400m 48.42 889 points

Day 2 (16 September)

• 110m Hurdles 13.75 1007 points
• Discus 50.54m 882 points
• Pole Vault 5.45m  1051 points
• Javelin 71.90m 918 points
• 1500m 4:36.11 705 points

Mayer Topped all events except the High Jump, which he tied but was 2nd on countback, 400m, 2nd, and 1500m where he was 5th. A dominating performance with Mayer winning 7 of the 10 events in the Decathlon. Some very comfortably.

World Record Progress (Wikipedia)

7,485.61	6,087	Aleksander Klumberg	EST	1922-09-22	Helsinki	[1]
7,710.775	6,476	Harold Osborn	USA	1924-07-12	Paris	[1]
7,820.93	6,460	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1926-07-18	Viipuri	[1]
7,995.19	6,566	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1927-07-17	Helsinki	[1]
8,053.29	6,587	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1928-08-04	Amsterdam	[1]
8,255.475	6,865	Akilles Järvinen	FIN	1930-07-20	Viipuri	[1]
8,462.235	6,736	James Bausch	USA	1932-08-06	Los Angeles	[1]
8,790.46	7,147	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	GER	1934-07-08	Hamburg	[1]
7,900	7,254	Glenn Morris	USA	1936-08-08	Berlin	[1]
8,042	7,287	Bob Mathias	USA	1950-06-30	Tulare	[1]
7,887	7,592	Bob Mathias	USA	1952-07-26	Helsinki	[1]
7,985	7,608	Rafer Johnson	USA	1955-06-11	Kingsburg	[1]
8,014	7,653	Vasili Kuznetsov	URS	1958-05-18	Krasnodar	[1]
8,302	7,989	Rafer Johnson	USA	1958-07-28	Moscow	[1]
8,357	7,839	Vasili Kuznetsov	URS	1959-05-17	Moscow	[1]
8,683	7,981	Rafer Johnson	USA	1960-07-09	Eugene	[1]
9,121	8,010	Yang Chuan-kwang	ROC	1963-04-28	Walnut	[1]
8,230	8,120	Russ Hodge	USA	1966-07-24	Los Angeles	[1]
8,319	8,235	Kurt Bendlin	FRG	1967-05-14	Heidelberg	[1]
8,417	8,310	Bill Toomey	USA	1969-12-11	Los Angeles	[1]
8,454	8,466	Mykola Avilov	URS	1972-09-08	Munich	[1]
8,524	8,420	Bruce Jenner	USA	1975-08-10	Eugene	[1]
8,538	8,454	Bruce Jenner	USA	1976-06-26	Eugene	[1]
8,618	8,634	Bruce Jenner	USA	1976-07-30	Montreal	[1]
8,622	8,648	Daley Thompson	GBR	1980-05-15	Götzis	[1]
8,649	8,667	Guido Kratschmer	FRG	1980-06-14	Filderstadt-Bernhausen	[1]
8,704	8,730	Daley Thompson	GBR	1982-05-23	Götzis	[1]
8,723	8,741	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1982-08-15	Ulm	[1]
8,743	8,774	Daley Thompson	GBR	1982-09-08	Athens	[1]
8,779	8,825	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1983-06-05[3]	Filderstadt-Bernhausen	[1]
8,798	8,832	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1984-05-09	Mannheim	[1]
8,798[n 3]	8,847[n 3]	Daley Thompson	GBR	1984-08-09	Los Angeles	[1]
8,891	8,891	Dan O’Brien	USA	1992-09-05	Talence	[1]
8,994	8,994	Tomáš Dvořák	CZE	1999-07-04	Prague	[1]
9,026	9,026	Roman Šebrle	CZE	2001-05-27	Götzis	[1]
9,039	9,039	Ashton Eaton	USA	2012-06-23	Eugene	[6][7]
9,045	9,045	Ashton Eaton	USA	2015-08-29	Beijing	[8]
9,126	9,126	Kevin Mayer	FRA	2018-09-16	Talence	[1]

source/full article: https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29172/11500048/kevin-mayer-sets-new-decathlon-world-record

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