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1993 Decathlon Year Ranking
This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1993 in the men's decathlon. One of the main events during this season were the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where the competition started on Thursday August 19, 1993, and ended on Friday August 20, 1993. Records 1993 World Year Ranking See also * 1993 Hypo-Meeting * 1993 Décastar Referencesdecathlon2000 {{Footer WBYP Decathlon 1993
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1993 In Athletics (track And Field)
This article contains an overview of the year 1993 in athletics. International events * African Championships * Asian Championships * Bolivarian Games * Central American and Caribbean Games * Central American Championships * East Asian Games * Maccabiah Games * Mediterranean Games * Chinese National Games * South American Championships * South Asian Games * Southeast Asian Games * World Championships * World Cross Country Championships * World Half Marathon Championships * World Indoor Championships * World Race Walking Cup * World Student Games World records Men *''The relay team of the United States in the men's 4x100m, formed by Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell and Leroy Burrell, equal its own world record, set the previous year at the 1992 Summer Olympics, clocking 37.40 on 1993-08-21 at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. The first mark was set by Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell and Carl Lewis on 1992-08-08.'' Women *Sun's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Muzzio
Robert ("Rob") Muzzio (born 25 June 1964, in Würzburg, West Germany to American parents) is a retired male decathlete from the United States, who represented ''Team USA'' at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He retired in 1996 after fifteen years of competition. His personal best was 8237 points, achieved at the World Championships in 1993. Muzzio attended George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ... in Fairfax, VA and was the first decathlete in NCAA Division I history to win back-to-back NCAA decathlon titles in 1984 & 85. Currently, he is the pole vaulting coach for the Track and Field team at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, where he attended high school. Rob has a wife, Natalie, and two children, Joey and Maria. Achievements ReferencesIAAF Profi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munehiro Kaneko
Munehiro Kaneko ( ja, 金子宗弘; born June 6, 1968) is a retired male decathlete from Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... International competitions References * 1968 births Living people Japanese decathletes Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners {{japan-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Huffins
Chris Huffins (born 15 April 1970) is an athlete from the United States who competed in the field of Decathlon. He was the Director and Head Coach of the Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country programs at the University of California from 2002 to 2007. He married Monique Parker in 1997 with whom he had one son Zachary. He earned a degree from the University of California in Political Economies of Industrial Societies in 2007. Huffins is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He is currently married to Tamika Huffins with whom he had another son, Jaxon. Athletic career Chris Huffins first became interested in decathlon while a student at the University of California. Sidelined with a broken toe, he watched other students performing decathlon and decided that that was the sport for him. Before becoming a decathlete, Chris Huffins was also a basketball player, sprinter, and long jumper. As a decathlete, Huffins acquired a reputation as a fast starter but a slow fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aric Long
Aric Long (born April 15, 1970) is an American athlete. He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... References 1970 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics American male decathletes Olympic track and field athletes for the United States People from East Liverpool, Ohio Track and field athletes from Ohio {{US-decathlon-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kip Janvrin
Kip Janvrin (born July 8, 1965 in Guthrie Center, Iowa) is an American former decathlete. Janvrin is a native of Panora, Iowa and is now the Co-Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri. College career Janvrin is a 1988 graduate of Simpson College, an NCAA Division III school in Indianola, Iowa. He won three NCAA Division III titles in the decathlon, as well as individual titles in the pole vault and 400 meter hurdles. International career Janvrin won the decathlon at the 1989 Olympic Festival with 7,863 points held at Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.http://www.ucmo.edu/athletics/track/guide/1011_Guide/2011%20TrackMG_Rosters&Bios.pdf Former President Ronald Reagan attended the event and spoke at the opening ceremony. Janvrin took the bronze medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games and won the 1995 Pan American Games. Janvrin achieved his then personal best result of 8,345 points at the USA Olympic Trials in June 1996 in Atla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáš Dvořák
Tomáš Dvořák (), born 11 May 1972 in Gottwaldov (now Zlín), Czechoslovakia, is an athlete from the Czech Republic. He competed in the decathlon and heptathlon for the team ''Dukla Prague''. He is a three-time decathlon world champion (1997, 1999, 2001) and a former world record holder (8,994 points scored in Prague, 1999), which is still the fifth best performance of all-time. This record was broken by Dvořák's compatriot Roman Šebrle in 2001. Dvořák is the only athlete to score over 8,900 points three times. Dvořák announced his retirement in July 2008, after he failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. He now works as an athletic coach. List of results *1990 CRCJ (Czech Republic Championship of Juniors), Czechoslovakia, heptathlon, 1st *1990 WCJ, decathlon, 17th *1991 ECJ, decathlon, 2nd *1993 WC, Stuttgart (Germany), decathlon, 10th *1994 EIC, Paris (France), heptathlon, 4th *1994 EC, Helsinki (Finland), decathlon, 7th *1995 WIC, Barcelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid (born 6 July 1970 in Würzburg) is a German decathlete. His personal best result was 8485 points, achieved in July 2000 in Ratingen Ratingen ( li, Rotinge) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf. Administration With a communal reform of 1975 the independent mu .... Achievements References *Profile 1970 births Living people German decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany Sportspeople from Würzburg 20th-century German people 21st-century German people {{Germany-decathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Voss
Torsten Voss (sometimes listed as Thorsten Voss; ; born 24 March 1963 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is an East German-German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. His biggest success was when he won the world title in the decathlon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome as a representative for East Germany. He achieved a personal best score of 8680 points and was chosen as the East German sportsman of the year. In 1988 in the Seoul Summer Olympic Games he won the silver medal behind fellow East German, Christian Schenk. His personal best of 8680 points ranks him fifth among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz and Frank Busemann. In 1994 Voss switched to bobsleigh and was a pusher for Harald Czudaj and Wolfgang Hoppe. He won three medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one silver (1997 with Dirk Wiese) and two bronzes (1995 with Czudaj, 1996 with Hopp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kohnle
Michael Kohnle (born 3 May 1970 in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a retired male decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ... from Germany. He set his personal best score (8302 points) in the men's decathlon on 28 May 1995 in Götzis. Kohnle was the last national champion for West Germany (1990). Achievements References * 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Göppingen German decathletes World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany West German Athletics Championships winners {{Germany-decathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petri Keskitalo
Petri Juhani Keskitalo (born March 10, 1967, in Raahe, Northern Ostrobothnia) is a retired male decathlete from Finland. He was nicknamed "Pete" and "Elmo". His best performance was fifth place (8318 points) at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. Result was Finnish record at that time. He finished in eleventh place (8143 points) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ... in Barcelona, Spain, but did not finish the competition. International competitions References * 1988 Year List 1967 births Living people People from Raahe Finnish decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezső Szabó (athlete)
Dezső Szabó (born 4 September 1967 in Budapest) is a retired Hungarian decathlete. His son, also named Dezső Szabó, competed in pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ... at the 2006 World Junior Championships. Achievements Awards * Hungarian athlete of the Year (1): 1990 External links * 1967 births Living people Hungarian decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Hungary Athletes from Budapest European Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade gold medalists for Hungary Universiade bronze medalists for Hungary Medalists at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |