as in game
a sports contest for men that consists of 10 different events
the Olympic decathlon
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Grenada: The island nation in the eastern Caribbean needed just six athletes to win a medal, taking bronze in the men’s decathlon for an average of 0.1667 medals per athlete.
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Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
That was Markus Rooth, who took gold in the men’s decathlon.
—Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
And two classmates from UCLA, Johnson and Yang, would battle for gold in the decathlon.
—Tim Genske, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
This excludes world-best decathlon performances and field events (hammer throw, shot put), which do not use a runway or the track.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
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Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
That was Markus Rooth, who took gold in the men’s decathlon.
—Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
And two classmates from UCLA, Johnson and Yang, would battle for gold in the decathlon.
—Tim Genske, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
This excludes world-best decathlon performances and field events (hammer throw, shot put), which do not use a runway or the track.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
See All Example Sentences for decathlon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decathlon
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Alcala is often seen at Verdugo's games, sporting team gear alongside their children, Efrain, A.J. and Alianna.—
Nasha Smith,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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American, Egyptian, Japanese — people of all ethnicities and nationalities are being represented, and Hazard joins that list as the game’s first Scottish hero.—
Ryan Easby,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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Athletes compete in traditional sports like archery, boxing and diving, as well as military competitions like aeronautical pentathlon and naval pentathlon.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Mar. 2025
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Jenna Fee Feyerabend won the pentathlon, claiming firsts in the high jump and shot put plus second in the long jump and 60 meters.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
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Across the track, the Aggies also saw wins from its distance medley relay team and Blake Harris in the heptathlon and from Samuel Whitmarsh in the 800m. Whitmarsh earned his second straight SEC title, legging past Mississippi State’s Abdullah Hassan in 1:47.69.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Four years later, after competing in her second Olympics and winning two gold medals (in the long jump and the heptathlon), Joyner-Kersee fulfilled another dream by establishing the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation.—
Kizzy Cox,
Essence,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Cavs, who won 48 games last season and were predicted by most oddsmakers to do about the same in this campaign, would now host a deciding Game 7 in an Eastern Conference finals against the Celtics, or, for that matter, any other team that gets there instead.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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In their first postseason appearance since losing the top overall seed to LSU, No. 2 Oklahoma cruised to a dominant win in their regional final, posting a massive 198.450.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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He’s also done the Ironman triathlon and is a commercial pilot.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
15 Feb. 2025
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Paralympic Games triathlon events in Paris' Seine River were postponed Sunday for a day due to water quality concerns, organizers announced.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
2 Sep. 2024
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The Kings defeated the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the play-in tournament before losing to the New Orleans Pelicans in a game that would have sent them to the playoffs as the No.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Heat can finish the regular season anywhere between eighth and 10th place in the East, as the NBA’s play-in tournament features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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Belarusian competitors excel in biathlon and aerial skiing, and the two sports account for every medal but one that the nation has won at the Winter Games.—
Blythe Lawrence,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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In addition to the previous sports offered, this year's event will include alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling for the first time.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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In other cases, surgeons may allow patients to resume light cardio at six weeks and everything else–weight training, yoga, sports—at three months.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025
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Navratilova on Thursday posed a question to Democrats as some states have continued to thumb their nose at President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep males out of girls’ and women’s sports.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Decathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decathlon. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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