During the World Championships Ultra Multievents in Lynchberg (USA) decathlete Joe Detmer has broken the world record icosathlon. The 27 year old set the new standard to 14574 points, an improvement of 389 points over Kip Janvrin’s old world record. It is noteworthy that Detmer, with a personal best decathlon of 8090 points this year, scored an unbelievable 7741 point in the decathlon events during the icosathlon.
A comparison of the three all-time best scores shows the following:
|
Joe |
Kip |
Indrek |
|
Detmer |
Janvrin |
Kaseorg |
|
USA |
USA |
EST |
|
03/09/1983 |
08/07/1965 |
16/12/1967 |
|
24/25.9.2010 |
07/08.9.2002 |
12/13.9.1992 |
|
Lynchburg (USA) |
Turku (FIN) |
Punkalaidun (FIN) |
|
|
|
|
| 100m |
10.93 |
11.42 |
11.75 |
| long jump |
7.30 |
6.79 |
7.00 |
| 200mh |
24.25 |
25.31 |
25.01 |
| shot put |
12.27 |
13.63 |
12.13 |
| 5000m |
18,25.32 |
18,23.97 |
17,36.07 |
| 800m |
2,02.23 |
2,02.46 |
2,04.84 |
| high jump |
1.98 |
1.87 |
1.99 |
| 400m |
50.43 |
50.64 |
50.72 |
| hammer |
31.82 |
34.27 |
32.26 |
| 3000st |
11,22.47 |
11,22.96 |
10,50.14 |
| 110h |
15.01 |
15.23 |
15.11 |
| discus |
40.73 |
40.91 |
37.04 |
| 200m |
22.58 |
22.56 |
23.30 |
| pole vault |
4.85 |
4.93 |
4.30 |
| 3000m |
10,25.99 |
10,13.16 |
10,18.50 |
| 400h |
53.83 |
54.40 |
54.00 |
| javelin |
51.95 |
58.31 |
57.78 |
| 1500m |
4,26.66 |
4,35.76 |
4,47.36 |
| triple jump |
13.67 |
13.18 |
14.04 |
| 10000m |
40,27.26 |
42,37.71 |
45,35.95 |
|
|
|
|
| total |
14574 |
14185 |
13905 |
| decathlon |
7741 |
7524 |
7187 |
| day 1 |
7208 |
6912 |
7032 |
| day 2 |
7366 |
7273 |
6873 |
In points the all-time top three compares as follows:

The old world record, set in 2002 by Olympic athlete Kip Janvrin during the World Championships in Turku, has been beaten from the first event. In the following graph you can see a comparison of Detmer’s new record compared to Janvrin’s scores from 2002.

We see that in the events 100m, long jump, 200m hurdles, high jump, 1500m, triple jump and 10000m Detmer increased his lead significantly, while shot put and javelin were clearly in favor of Janvrin. In all the other disciplines the difference is very minor. The jumping events are scoring high for Detmer (+258 points) while the throwing events are better for Janvrin (-221 points). On the other events the advantage is slightly for Detmer (hurdles +129 points, sprint +115 points, long distances +108 points).
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