Dan O'Brien

Dan O'Brien

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Dan O'Brien
Event Decathalon
PR 8891 pts
High School Henley HS (Klamath Falls, Oregon), 1984
College Idaho, '89

Dan O'Brien is a coach and an Olympic decathlete.

O'Brien has won five U.S. national 10-event titles, which ties him with 1968 Olympic gold medalist Bill Toomey and Tom Pappas for the most such titles. O'Brien won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta with 8,824 points for his 11th consecutive decathlon win since September 1992. He failed to qualify for the 1992 Olympic team after a much publicized promotion by Reebok, because he passed on early pole vault heights and then failed to make the later jumps. Later in 1992, O'Brien set the then world (and existing American) record of 8,891 points in Talence, France, bettering his previous WR of 8,812 set in 1991. O'Brien was the world decathlon champion in 1991, 1993 and 1995. O'Brien earned the year-end world #1 ranking from Track and Field News on six occasions and finished in the top ten of T&FN's World Athlete of the Year voting four times during his career.[1]

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Records held

World Record: Decathlon - 8891 pts. (September 5, 1992 - )

Championships

  • 1996 Olympic Games: Decathlon - 8824 pts. (1st)
  • 1991 World Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8812 pts. (1st)
  • 1993 World Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8817 pts. (1st)
  • 1995 World Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8695 pts. (1st)
  • 1991 USA Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8844 pts. (1st)
  • 1993 USA Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8331 pts. (1st)
  • 1994 USA Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8707 pts. (1st)
  • 1995 USA Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8682 pts. (1st)
  • 1996 USA Outdoor Championships: Decathlon - 8726 pts. (1st)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=217
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Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon
As all-around
1904: Tom Kiely
As pentathlon
As decathlon
1912: Jim Thorpe/Hugo Wieslander • 1920: Helge Løvland • 1924: Harold Osborn • 1928: Paavo Yrjölä • 1932: James Bausch • 1936: Glenn Morris • 1948+1952: Bob Mathias • 1956: Milt Campbell • 1960: Rafer Johnson • 1964: Willi Holdorf • 1968: Bill Toomey • 1972: Nikolai Avilov • 1976: Bruce Jenner • 1980+1984: Daley Thompson • 1988: Christian Schenk • 1992: Robert Změlík • 1996: Dan O'Brien • 2000: Erki Nool • 2004: Roman Šebrle • 2008: Bryan Clay
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