This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1996 in the men's decathlon . One of the main events during this season were the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia , where the competition started on July 31, 1996, and ended on August 1, 1996.
1996 World Year Ranking
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Rank
Points
Athlete
Venue
Date
Note
1
8824
Dan O'Brien (USA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
2
8706
Frank Busemann (GER )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
PB
3
8664
Tomáš Dvořák (CZE )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
4
8644
Steve Fritz (USA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
PB
5
8626
Michael Smith (CAN )
Götzis, Austria
1996-05-26
NR
6
8613
Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
7
8546
Chris Huffins (USA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-06-22
8
8543
Erki Nool (EST )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
9
8425
Robert Změlík (CZE )
Talence, France
1996-09-15
10
8404
Ricky Barker (USA )
College Station, United States
1996-03-15
PB
11
8393
Sébastien Levicq (FRA )
Talence, France
1996-09-15
12
8345
Kip Janvrin (USA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-06-22
13
8318
Ramil Ganiyev (UZB )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
14
8315
Lev Lobodin (RUS )
Götzis, Austria
1996-05-26
15
8307
Antonio Peñalver (ESP )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
16
8282
Christian Plaziat (FRA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
17
8274
Jón Arnar Magnússon (ISL )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
18
8256
Kamil Damašek (CZE )
Lage, Germany
1996-06-16
PB
19
8253
Frank Müller (GER )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
20
8249
Sebastian Chmara (POL )
Atlanta, United States
1996-08-01
21
8230
Michael Kohnle (GER )
Bernhausen, Germany
1996-06-16
22
8227
Andrew Fucci (USA )
Atlanta, United States
1996-06-22
PB
23
8216
Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB )
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1996-06-06
24
8210
Roman Šebrle (CZE )
Prague, Czech Republic
1996-07-10
25
8189
Raúl Duany (CUB )
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1996-02-10