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Decathlon, Men

Date	23 – 24 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Stadio, Olympiako Athletiko Kentro Athinon Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Participants	39 from 26 countries
Format	Scoring by 1985 point tables.

The 2003 World Champion was American Tom Pappas, but the world record holder was the Czech, Roman Šebrle, who had won the 2002 European Championships, and in 2001 at Götzis, had broken the 9,000-point barrier with a world record of 9,026. But Pappas was injured going into the Olympics and he would eventually withdraw after a no-height in the pole vault. This left the favorite’s role to Šebrle. American Bryan Clay started strong with 10.44 and 7.96 and after two events led by 52 points ahead of the Kazakh, Dmitry Karpov. Karpov led after the first day with Šebrle second and Clay third. They held those positions thru the pole vault but Šebrle won the javelin with 70.52, with Clay second in that event with 69.71. Karpov finished only 21st in the javelin and fell back to third place entering the 1,500. The medals were sorted out with Karpov almost 400 points ahead of the Netherlands’ Chiel Warners. Šebrle held a 63 point lead over Clay going into the 1,500, but outran him by about one second to secure the gold medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Points	100 metres	Long Jump	Shot Put	High Jump	400 metres	110 metres Hurdles	Discus Throw	Pole Vault	Javelin Throw	1,500 metres
1	1513	Roman Šebrle	CZE	8893	–	10.85	7.84	16.36	2.12	48.36	14.05	48.72	5.00	70.52	4:40.01	Gold	OR
2	3243	Bryan Clay	USA	8820	–	10.44	7.96	15.23	2.06	49.19	14.13	50.11	4.90	69.71	4:41.65	Silver
3	2313	Dmitry Karpov	KAZ	8725	–	10.50	7.81	15.93	2.09	46.81	13.97	51.65	4.60	55.54	4:38.11	Bronze
4	1816	Dean Macey	GBR	8414	–	10.89	7.47	15.73	2.15	48.97	14.56	48.34	4.40	58.46	4:25.42
5	2584	Chiel Warners	NED	8343	–	10.62	7.74	14.48	1.97	47.97	14.01	43.73	4.90	55.39	4:38.05
6	2097	Attila Zsivóczky	HUN	8287	–	10.91	7.14	15.31	2.12	49.40	14.95	45.62	4.70	63.45	4:29.54
7	1744	Laurent Hernu	FRA	8237	–	10.97	7.19	14.65	2.03	48.73	14.25	44.72	4.80	57.76	4:24.35
8	1643	Erki Nool	EST	8235	–	10.80	7.53	14.26	1.88	48.81	14.80	42.05	5.40	61.33	4:36.33
9	2218	Claston Bernard	JAM	8225	–	10.69	7.48	14.80	2.12	49.13	14.17	44.75	4.40	55.27	4:36.31
10	1107	Roland Schwarzl	AUT	8102	–	10.98	7.49	14.01	1.94	49.76	14.25	42.43	5.10	56.32	4:33.56
11	2925	Aleksandr Pogorelov	RUS	8084	–	10.95	7.31	15.10	2.06	50.79	14.21	44.60	5.00	53.45	4:47.63
12	1930	Florian Schönbeck	GER	8077	–	10.90	7.30	14.77	1.88	50.30	14.34	44.41	5.00	60.89	4:38.82
13	1720	Romain Barras	FRA	8067	–	11.14	6.99	14.91	1.94	49.41	14.37	44.83	4.60	64.55	4:27.09
14	2245	Maurice Smith	JAM	8023	–	10.85	6.81	15.24	1.91	49.27	14.01	49.02	4.20	61.52	4:32.74
15	2853	Nikolay Averyanov	RUS	8021	–	10.55	7.34	14.44	1.94	49.72	14.39	39.88	4.80	54.51	4:31.02
16	1704	Jaakko Ojaniemi	FIN	8006	–	10.68	7.50	14.97	1.94	49.12	15.01	40.35	4.60	59.26	4:35.71
17	3386	Vitaly Smirnov	UZB	7993	–	10.89	7.07	13.88	1.94	49.11	14.77	42.47	4.70	60.88	4:23.31
18	1368	Qi Haifeng	CHN	7934	–	11.06	7.34	13.55	1.97	49.65	14.78	45.13	4.50	60.79	4:32.63
19	1871	Stefan Drews	GER	7926	–	10.87	7.38	13.07	1.88	48.51	14.01	40.11	5.00	51.53	4:34.21
20	1190	Aliaksandr Parkhomenka	BLR	7918	–	11.14	6.61	15.69	2.03	51.04	14.88	41.90	4.80	65.82	4:37.94
21	3349	Paul Terek	USA	7893	–	10.92	6.94	15.15	1.94	49.56	15.12	45.62	5.30	50.62	4:50.36
22	1592	David Gómez	ESP	7865	–	11.08	7.26	14.57	1.85	48.61	14.41	40.95	4.40	60.71	4:29.70
23	1649	Indrek Turi	EST	7708	–	11.08	6.91	13.62	2.03	51.67	14.26	39.83	4.80	59.34	4:50.01
24	1039	Santiago Lorenzo	ARG	7592	–	11.10	7.03	13.22	1.85	49.34	15.38	40.22	4.50	58.36	4:23.08
25	2417	Jānis Karlivāns	LAT	7583	–	11.33	7.26	13.30	1.97	50.54	14.98	43.34	4.50	52.92	4:38.67
26	1992	Prodromos Korkizoglou	GRE	7573	–	10.86	7.07	14.81	1.94	51.16	14.96	46.07	4.70	53.05	5:17.00
27	2628	Hans Olav Uldal	NOR	7495	–	11.23	6.99	13.53	1.85	50.95	15.09	43.01	4.50	60.00	4:41.70
28	2164	Paolo Casarsa	ITA	7404	–	11.36	6.68	14.92	1.94	53.20	15.39	48.66	4.40	58.62	4:56.12
29	2572	Eugène Martineau	NED	7185	–	10.99	6.84	–	2.00	49.10	15.02	40.00	4.80	63.62	4:31.79
30	2496	Victor Covalenco	MDA	6543	–	11.28	7.20	13.04	1.85	51.82	15.80	38.19	–	53.46	4:23.81
DNF	3320	Tom Pappas	USA	–	–	10.80	7.38	16.17	2.03	47.97	14.18	47.39	–	–	–
DNF	2762	Luiggy Llanos	PUR	–	–	10.94	7.43	13.77	1.91	49.28	14.13	41.82	–	–	–
DNF	3380	Pavel Andreyev	UZB	–	–	11.29	–	14.30	2.00	51.64	15.54	41.89	4.90	–	–
DNF	2771	Ahmad Hassan Moussa	QAT	–	–	10.79	7.04	13.32	1.82	48.73	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1906	Dennis Leyckes	GER	–	–	11.05	7.05	12.84	1.91	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	2145	Jón Arnar Magnússon	ISL	–	–	11.05	7.12	14.98	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1645	Kristjan Rahnu	EST	–	–	10.77	–	14.45	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	2909	Lev Lobodin	RUS	–	–	11.05	6.86	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1493	Tomáš Dvořák	CZE	–	–	11.53	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–