Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1]

Men's decathlon
at the Commonwealth Games

Daley Thompson won the gold medal by a whopping 844 points. This included winning six events including all five events on day one of the competition. His lowest placing for any event in this decathlon was fifth in the javelin throw.

Results

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Wind for 100m: Heat 1: +1.6 m/s, Heat 2: +2.3 m/s

Rank Athlete Nationality 100m LJ SP HJ 400m 110m H DT PV JT 1500m Points Notes
  Daley Thompson   England 10.50w 8.11w 14.43 2.07 47.85 14.92 41.68 4.80 56.60 4:25.78 8467
  Peter Hadfield   Australia 10.98w 7.28 13.48 1.92 49.24 15.59 46.52 4.00 60.80 4:54.54 7623
  Alan Drayton   England 11.03w 7.15 11.85 1.95 50.17 14.86 40.60 4.40 57.22 4:54.11 7484
4 Graeme Watson   England 10.77w 7.31w 13.29 1.89 49.73 16.97 38.04 3.80 54.90 4:44.73 7261
5 Panayiotis Zeniou   Cyprus 11.38 6.93 13.31 1.75 50.80 16.26 37.38 4.20 56.54 4:20.48 7201
6 Rob Town   Canada 11.59 6.47 13.33 1.92 52.40 16.40 46.62 3.60 62.20 4:32.30 7138
7 Robert Sadler   New Zealand 11.42 6.87 12.28 1.95 51.87 15.93 36.66 4.40 42.10 4:20.10 7117
8 Charles Kokoyo   Kenya 11.32 7.27 9.58 1.89 50.32 16.40 33.90 3.00 65.00 4:32.80 6775
9 Mike Bull   Northern Ireland 11.60 6610
10 Tony Verhoeven   Canada 11.64 6453
11 Dunstan Campbell   Grenada 5515
Zenon Smiechowski   Canada 11.64w DNF
Craig Considine   Australia 11.68w 6.75 13.31 DNS DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2018-02-27.