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Athletics Weekly
|January 16, 2020
OUR SERIES HIGHLIGHTING THE TOP ATHLETICS MEMORIES STAN GREENBERG HAS EXPERIENCED, CONCLUDES WITH THE COMBINED EVENTS
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THE DECATHLON can be confusing enough to the uninitiated without the changes in the scoring tables which have been necessitated over the years. Therefore I have used conversions based on the current 1984 tables in this article.
My first ever decathlon was at the 1952 Olympics, when the 1948 champion, the great Bob Mathias, became the first decathlete to retain an Olympic title. His score was 7887 points, a world record, which now corresponds to 7592, and he was way ahead of any opposition.
The only other man to successfully defend his title was the outstanding Daley Thompson. He won in Moscow in 1980 and then Los Angeles in 1984, where he set a new record of 8798, which was then acknowledged as the first mark under the new tables, re-scored at 8847.
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