Earlier today, I wrote: >The IAAF website is showing a mark of 8150 points for Marie Collonville, of >France, in winning the decathlon at the IAAF World Combined Events >Challenge, held in Talence last weekend (September 25-26). Since the IAAF >previously had announced that any score over 8000 would be ratified as an >initial world record for the new event, it can be expected that >Collonville's mark will be confirmed. > >Since the event has not been included in the IAAF Top List, it's difficult >to gain any perspective on these accomplishments. Obviously the marks of >Collonville, Naumenko, and Steigauf would be national records. Does anyone >know of other outstanding decathlon performances that would provide a >beginning to a table of national records?
After I posted this, Ottavio Castellini of IAAF was quick to respond, pointing out that last weekend's Talence results, as well as four other 2004 women's decathlon results now have been posted on the IAAF Top Lists <http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/>. I'm not sure that his letter to t-and-f was addressed in such a way as to be circulated to all subscribers, so I'll take this opportunity to apologize to Ottavio for my mistake and draw attention of subscribers to the listing on Top Lists. Roger
