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OLYMPIC RESULTS
1904: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Medalists Country
Games of the III Olympiad Thomas Kiely Great Britain
Francis Field Adam Gunn United States
Friday, July 4 Truxtun Hare United States
7 Competitors from 2 nations
It was the first time the event, intended to be an all-around championship in athletics, was held. , but made its return in 1912 and has been part of the Olympic programme since. It differed from the decathlon since 1912 in that it was contested over a single day, and featured the 880 yard race walk, hammer throw and weight throwing instead of the 400m, javelin and discus. It was one of only 2 (out of 25) events not won by an American. FULL RESULTS
1908: LONDON, ENGLAND
Games of the IV Olympiad
The decathlon would not return for the next edition of the games in 1908
1912: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Medalists Country
Games of the V Olympiad Jim Thorpe United States
Stockholm Olympic Stadium Hugo Wieslander Sweden
Saturday - Monday, July 13 – 15 Charles Lomberg Sweden
29 Competitors from 12 nations Gösta Holmér Sweden
The men's decathlon was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the second time the event, which debuted at the 1904 Summer Olympics, was held.
1916 - BERLIN, GERMANY
Games of the VI Olympiad
Deutsches Stadion
The 1916 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1916 were scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, but were eventually cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. Berlin was selected as the host city during the 14th IOC Session in Stockholm on 4 July 1912, defeating bids from Alexandria, Amsterdam, Brussels,Budapest and Cleveland. After the 1916 Games were cancelled, Berlin would eventually host the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Work on the stadium, the Deutsches Stadion ("German Stadium"), began in 1912 at what was the Grunewald Race Course. It was planned to seat over 18,000 spectators. On 8 June 1913, the stadium was dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons. 60,000 people were in attendance.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, organization continued as no one expected that the war would continue for several years. Eventually, though, the Games were cancelled.
A winter sports week with speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and Nordic skiing was planned; the concept of this week eventually gave rise to the first Winter Olympic Games. The central venue was to have been the Deutsches Stadion.
Berlin returned to Olympic bidding in 1931, when it beat Barcelona, Spain, for the right to host the 1936 Summer Olympics, the last Olympics before the outbreak of World War II.
1920: ANTWERP, BELGIUM Medalists Country
Games of the VII Olympiad Helge Løvland Norway
Olympisch Stadion Brutus Hamilton United States
Friday - Saturday, August 20 - 21 Bertil Ohlson Sweden
23 Competitors from 11 nations
1924: PARIS, FRANCE Medalists Country
Games of the VIII Olympiad Harold Osborn United States
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir; Emerson Norton United States
Friday - Saturday, July 11 - 12 Aleksander Klumberg Estonia
36 Competitors from 22 nations
1928: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Medalists Country
Games of the IX Olympiad Paavo Yrjölä Finland
Olympisch Stadion Akilles Järvinen Finland
August 4 & August 5 Ken Doherty United States
38 Competitors from 19 nations
1932: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Medalists Country
Games of the X Olympiad Jim Bausch United States
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Akilles Järvinen Finland
Saturday - Sunday, August 5 -6 Wolrad Eberle Germany
15 Competitors from 10 nations
The men's decathlon event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place between August 5 & August 6. Points are listed by the scoring table from 1912 which were used to determine the winner. Adjusted points are points using the 1985 scoring table. The official Olympic results shows both results, but medal winners were determined by the 1912 scoring table.
1936: BERLIN, GERMANY Medalists Country
Games of the XI Olympiad Glenn Morris United States
Olympic Stadium Bob Clark United States
Friday - Saturday, August 7 - 8 Jack Parker United States
7 Competitors from 2 nations
1940: TOKYO, JAPAN
Games of the XII Olympiad
Meiji Jingu Stadium
The 1940 Summer Olympics were originally scheduled to be held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo,Japan, were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.
1940 Tokyo Olympics[edit]
The campaign to choose a city for 1940 began in 1932, with Barcelona, Rome, Helsinki, and Tokyo participating. Tokyo city officials suggested a campaign as a means of international diplomacy following Japan's alienation from the League of Nations due to the Mukden Incident. While both Tokyo officials and International Olympic Committee (IOC) representatives were behind the campaign, the national government, which was ever more interested in military matters, did not have any strong supporters for such a diplomatic gesture.[1] In 1936, Tokyo was chosen in a surprise move, making them the first non-Western city to win an Olympic bid.
1930s Japan and international sports[edit]
During the 1930 Far Eastern Games in Tokyo, Indian participants were spotted flying the flag of their independence movement rather than the flag of British India. This caused a complaint from the British Olympic Association. In 1934 Japan attempted to invite European colonies to the Far Eastern Games.[2]
Planning[edit]
The main stadium was to be Meiji Jingu Stadium, later used at the 1964 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Village was to be built on the present sites of Kinuta Park or Todoroki Gorge. A schedule was drawn up, and guidelines were printed in four languages. Monthly magazines and posters were printed and distributed internationally. Construction began on some buildings, and arrangements were made with hotels, travel agents, and airlines for easy access.[3]
Forfeiture of Games[edit]
When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out on July 7, 1937, Kono Ichiro, in the Diet, immediately requested that the Olympics be forfeited.[4] The 1938 Far Eastern Gameswere also cancelled, but Japan's IOC delegates persisted under a belief that the war would soon be over.[5] Amid the intensification of the war, the feasibility of both the Summer Olympics and the 1940 Winter Olympics grew increasingly questionable to other countries, who suggested a different site be chosen and spoke of the possibility of boycotting the Games were they to proceed in Japan.[6]
In March 1938, the Japanese provided reassurances to the IOC at the organization's Cairo conference that Tokyo would still be able to serve as the host city. However, many Diet members in Japan had already openly questioned hosting the Olympics in wartime, and the military was unreasonably demanding that the organizers build the venues from wood because they needed metals for the war front.[7] In July, a legislative session was held to decide the matters of the Summer and Winter Olympics and the planned 1940 World's Fair all at once. The World's Fair was only "postponed", under a belief that Japan would be able to wrap up the war, but the Olympics could not be moved and was canceled.[8]
Kōichi Kido, who would later be instrumental in the surrender of Japan in 1945, announced the forfeiture on July 16, 1938. He closed his speech saying, "When peace reigns again in the Far East, we can then invite the Games to Tokyo and take that opportunity to prove to the people of the world the true Japanese spirit."[3] This would come to pass in1964.
Despite the cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the Tokyo organizing committee released its budget for the Games. In a departure from standard practice, the budget included all capital outlays as well as direct organizing costs. The total budget was ¥20.1 million, one-third of which would have been paid by the Tokyo metropolitan government.[9]
Helsinki and other competitions[edit]
The IOC then awarded the Games to Helsinki, Finland, the city that had been the runner-up in the original bidding process. The Games were then scheduled to be staged from July 20 to August 4, 1940. The Olympic Games were suspended indefinitely following the outbreak of World War II and did not resume until the London Games of 1948.
With the Olympics cancelled, the major international athletics event of the year turned out to be the annual Finland-Sweden athletics international, held at the new Helsinki Olympic Stadium, exceptionally held as a triple international among Finland, Sweden and Germany. Gliding was due to be an Olympic sport in the 1940 Games after ademonstration at the Berlin Games in 1936.[10][11] The sport has not been featured in any Games since, though the glider designed for it, the DFS Olympia Meise, was produced in large numbers after the war.
Helsinki eventually held the 1952 Summer Olympics and Tokyo the 1964 Summer Olympics.
During August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games. These were inaugurated and celebrated in stalagnumber XIII-A in Langwasser close to Nuremberg, Germany. An Olympic flag 29 by 46 cm in size was made of a Polish prisoner’s shirt and, drawn in crayon, it featured the Olympic rings and banners for Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland and Netherlands. A feature film was produced by the director Andrzej Kotkowski in 1980 calledOlimpiada '40 telling the story of these games and one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski.[12]
Torch run[edit]
Main article: 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay
Had the 1940 Summer Games been held, a never-before used method of bringing the Olympic Flame from Nazi Germany to Japan was proposed - by air delivery, in the purpose-built Messerschmitt Me 261 Adolfine long-range aircraft, which was designed to have a maximum range of some 9,500 km (5,900 mi) unrefueled.[13]
1944: LONDON, ENGLAND
Games of the XIII Olympiad
Wembley Stadium
The 1944 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to World War II. They were to have been held in London, England, United Kingdom, which won the bid on the first ballot in a June 1939 IOCelection over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal. The selection was made at the 38th IOC Session in London in 1939.[1]
Because of the cancellation, London went on to host the 1948 Summer Olympics, awarded without election.
In spite of the war, the IOC organized many events to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation at its headquarters inLausanne, Switzerland. Held from 17 June to 19 June 1944, this celebration was referred to as "The Jubilee Celebrations of IOC" byCarl Diem, the originator of the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay.
Polish Prisoners of War (POWs) in the Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) Oflag II-C POW camp were granted permission by their German captors to stage an unofficial POW Olympicsduring July 23 to August 13, 1944 and an Olympic Flag made with a bed sheet and pieces of coloured scarves was raised. The event has been considered to be a demonstration of the Olympic spirit transcending war.[2]
1948: LONDON, ENGLAND Medalists Country
Games of the XIV Olympiad Bob Mathias United States
Wembley Stadium Ignace Heinrich France
Thursday - Friday, August 5 - 6 Floyd Simmons United States
35 Competitors from 23 nations
1952: HELSINKI, FINLAND Medalists Country
Games of the XV Olympiad Bob Mathias United States
Helsinki Olympic Stadium Milt Campbell United States
Thursday - Friday, July 25 - 26 Floyd Simmons United States
28 Competitors from 16 nations
Bob Mathias from the United States repeated his performances from the previous games by winning the gold medal and setting new world and Olympic records. It was the second time the United States Olympic team earned all three medals in the event, the first one being in the 1936 Olympic Games.
1956: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Medalists Country
Games of the XVI Olympiad Milt Campbell United States
Melbourne Cricket Ground Rafer Johnson United States
Thursday - Friday, November 29 - 30 Vasili Kuznetsov Soviet Union
15 Competitors from 8 nations
1960: ROME, ITALY Medalists Country
Games of the XVII Olympiad Rafer Johnson United States
Stadio Olimpico Yang Chuan-kwang Republic of China
Monday - Tuesday, September 5 - 6 Vasili Kuznetsov Soviet Union
30 Competitors from 20 nations
1964: TOKYO, JAPAN Medalists Country
Games of the XVIII Olympiad Willi Holdorf Germany
Olympic Stadium Rein Aun Soviet Union
Monday - Tuesday, October 19 - 20 Hans-Joachim Walde Germany
23 Competitors from 15 nations
1968: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Medalists Country
Games of the XIX Olympiad Bill Toomey United States
Estadio Olímpico Universitario Hans-Joachim Walde West Germany
Friday - Saturday, October 18 - 19 Kurt Bendlin West Germany
33 Competitors from 20 nations
A total of 33 competitors from 20 nations entered the decathlon with 19 athletes managing to finish all events at the competition.[1]
The ten-event track and field competition used hand timing in the track events and was scored using the 1962 scoring method. The youngest competitor was Don Vélez (aged 20) and the oldest was Valbjörn Þorláksson (aged 34). The sixth-placer Tom Waddell, representing the United States, later went on to found the Gay Olympics.[1]
1972: MUNICH, WEST GERMANY Medalists Country
Games of the XX Olympiad Mykola Avilov Soviet Union
Olympic Stadium Leonid Lytvynenko Soviet Union
Thurday - Friday, September 7 - 8 Ryszard Katus Poland
34 Competitors from 20 nations
- The men's decathlon combined event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place on 7 & 8 September. The favorite was Joachim Kirst, who had won the European Championship in 1969 and 1971. The decathletes were unfortunate, as they had to re-open the Olympics, the morning after the postponement due to the tragic events of the Munich massacre. As the events continued the favorite, Kirst, hit the third hurdle in the 110 metres and fell, dropping out of the race.[1]
1976: MONTREAL, CANADA Medalists Country
Games of the XXI Olympiad Bruce Jenner United States
Olympic Stadium Guido Kratschmer West Germany
Thursday - Friday, July 29 - 30 Mykola Avilov Soviet Union
28 Competitors from 16 nations
1980: MOSCOW, SOVIET UNION Medalists Country
Games of the XXII Olympiad Daley Thompson Great Britain
Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium Yuriy Kutsenko Soviet Union
Friday - Saturday, July 25 - 26 Sergey Zhelanov Soviet Union
21 Competitors from 14 nations
1984: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Medalists Country
Games of the XXIII Olympiad Daley Thompson Great Britain
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Jürgen Hingsen West Germany
Wednesday - Thursday, August 8 - 9 Siegfried Wentz West Germany
26 Competitors from 18 nations
1988: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA Medalists Country
Games of the XXIV Olympiad Christian Schenk East Germany
Olympic Stadium Torsten Voss East Germany
Wednesday - Thursday, September 28 - 29 Dave Steen Canada
39 Competitors from 26 nations
1992: BARCEONA, SPAIN Medalists Country
Games of the XXV Olympiad Robert Změlík Czechoslovakia
Francis Field; July 4 Antonio Peñalver Spain
Wednesday - Thursday, August 5 -6 Dave Johnson United States
36 Competitors from 24 nations
1996: ATLANTA, GEORGIA Medalists Country
Games of the XXVI Olympiad Dan O'Brien United States
Centennial Olympic Stadium Frank Busemann Germany
Wednesday - Thursday, July 31 - August 1 Tomáš Dvořák Czech Republic
40 Competitors from 26 nations
2000: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Medalists Country
Games of the XXVII Olympiad Erki Nool Estonia
Stadium Australia Roman Šebrle Czech Republic
Wednesday - Thursday, September 27 - 28 Chris Huffins United States
38 Competitors from 24 nations
After the first day of the contest, Chris Huffins found himself in en eight-point lead ahead of Dean Macey. Erki Nool and Tom Pappas occupied the next places. On the next day Nool dropped to fifth place after the 110 metres hurdles, but advanced again after the controversial discus contest. Starting off with two foul attempts, Nool was originally fouled in his third and last attempt as well, which would have resulted in him getting 0 points and falling out of the leading group. However, Nool successfully appealed the ring-foul ruling and had his throw measured to 43.66 metres, which saw him climb one place. The British delegation, representing Macey, protested to no avail.
Following Nool's strong result in the javelin throw event Huffins' lead had shrunk to only 14 points before the 1500 metres. As this was a weak event for Huffins he looked set to lose out in the medal chase; however, he managed to lower his personal best time by twelve seconds and grasped a bronze medal. Reigning world champion and world record holder Tomáš Dvořák struggled with a knee problem throughout the competition and finished in a disappointing sixth place.
2004: ATHENS, GREECE Medalists Country
Games of the XXVIII Olympiad Roman Šebrle Czech Republic
Olympic Stadium Bryan Clay United States
Monday - Tuesday, August 23 - 24 Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan
39 Competitors from 26 nations
2008: BEIJING, CHINA Medalists Country
Games of the XXIX Olympiad Bryan Clay United States
Beijing National Stadium Andrei Krauchanka Belarus
Thursday - Friday, August 21 - 22 Leonel Suárez Cuba
40 Competitors from 27 nations
The qualifying standards were 8,000 points (A standard) and 7,700 points (B standard).[3]
2012: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Medalists Country
Games of the XXX Olympiad Ashton Eaton United States
Olympic Stadium Trey Hardee United States
Wednesday - Thursday, August 8 -9 Leonel Suárez Cuba
31 Competitors from 25 nations
The Men's decathlon competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–9 August.[1]
From the outset, new world record holder Ashton Eaton dominated the events with teammate Trey Hardee his closest competitor. Notable for his early exit, 2004 champion and former world record holder Roman Šebrle withdrew after finishing last in the 100 m. Eaton's 10.35 100 metres was the top time of the day, Hardee's 10.42 the next best. His 8.03 long jump was almost half a metre further than any other competitor. Dmitriy Karpov won the shot put, but Eaton's 14.66 was just 12 cm short of his personal record. Leonel Suárez won the high jump, but Eaton tied with several members of the field for second best. And Eaton's 46.90 400 metres was over a full second faster than anybody else in the field. Damian Warner had a 40 point advantage for third position after the first day.
Hardee started day two off with a victory over Eaton in the 110 metres hurdles, but it was only .02, narrowing the gap by 3 points. Rico Freimuth was the top discus thrower, with Hardee 85 cm behind him. Eaton's discus was 5.75 m less, giving Hardee almost an extra 120 point dent into the gap. Eaton more than gained that back with the third best pole vault of the day, while Hardee was 40 cm back. In the javelin throw, Leonel Suárez put more than 10 meters on the rest of the contenders, to solidly place himself in bronze medal position. Hardee was the third best thrower, but his gap was not as large as he needed while Eaton set a new personal best in the event. With Eaton holding a 150+ point lead, Hardee a 70 point lead over Suárez, who held an 80 point lead over a crowd of his nearest challengers, the medals were fairly well set before the gun in the 1500 metres. Hans van Alphen led the way to move into fourth place, but nobody made a serious run at improving their medals, instead choosing to just finish the last event. For Suárez, it was his second Olympic bronze medal in a row.
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