In the 20th century, American male decathletes have won 10 Olympic medals and set 22 world decathlon records. From Dennis Adama, a world-class high jumper while at Indiana State University, to Matt Zuber, who won 8 out of his 41 career decathlons, this work summarizes the career records of 319 of the most important American decathletes of the 20th century, including Jim Thorpe, Dan O’Brien, Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson, and Bruce Jenner. All Olympians, international team members, national and collegiate champions, and members of the United States National team are profiled. Each entry describes the individual athlete’s accomplishments and provides a statistical record of his entire decathlon career. A section on decathlon coaches and a comprehensive list of all world and United States decathlon rankings are provided.

Frank Zarnowski is a visiting professor of economics at Dartmouth College and was previously dean of the Graduate Program of Business at Mount St. Mary’s College, Maryland. He has been a television sports commentator since 1983 and was an NBC analyst for both the 1992 and 2004 Olympic Games.

Frank Zarnowski
Format: softcover (8.5 x 11)
Pages: 326
Bibliographic Info: 113 photos, tables, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2011 [2002]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4930-9
eISBN: 978-1-4766-1200-3
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgements     vii
Preface     1
A Key to the Career Records    3
The Decathletes    7
Decathlon Coaches     291
Appendix    299
References     309
Index     313

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