Decades before that, though, Jenner was one of the world’s greatest athletes who took home gold in the grueling decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The record-breaking victory came at the ...

A few months later, he's a national hero. Before 1948, Mathias had never participated in a decathlon. That summer in London, he won the Olympic gold medal in the grueling 10-event competition.

In 1990, Harrison was the winner of the Jim Thorpe Award, given each year to the United States’ best male athlete in the field event/decathlon category ... accomplishment undoubtedly came at the 1996 ...

What is the difference between the decathlon, heptathlon and pentathlon? The decathlon and heptathlon makes up part of the Olympic track and field program, while pentathlon is an entirely-different ...

The Decathlon combines ten different events ... Eugene with a distance of 79.51 meters. Both McEwen and Harrison were finalists in the Olympic high jump competition in Tokyo, with Harrison ...

The three hallmarks of athletics are running, jumping, and throwing, and the decathlon combines 10 events from these three disciplines into a combined event. In modern athletics, the ten events ...

Gretchen Walsh has a busy Olympic schedule with a chance ... qualified in the triathlon, and Harrison Williams (Memphis) competes in the decathlon for the U.S. track and field team.

Bob Mathias competed in the Rose Bowl and in the Olympic decathlon in the same year. One day the 17-year-old Californian is a regional prep star. A few months later, he's a national hero.