While not a double, Curtis Beach of Duke competed in the open 800 and long jump at 2012 NCAA champs a year after finishing 2nd in the deca in 2011 (scored 8000+ points)
Has a decathlete ever DOUBLED at ncass?
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Till Steinforth did it this year.
4th place Decathlon, 12th place LJ.
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any division? wrote:
happens a lot D2, esp at the conference levels, but it is very possible at NCAAs if said athlete it good enough at hurdles and jumps
This.
We had the national decathlon champ on our team. He came back in a couple of individual events. We had one guy score in both hurdles and the HJ and TJ champ. 4th in the nation with 4 guys!
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In 1996 Marcus Nichols (Air Force Academy) competed in the decathlon and pole vault at NCAAs. He finished somewhere around 3rd and 6th in those events.
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I found the results. 9th in pole vault and 3rd in the decathlon.
I don't want to derail the thread, but there's a lot of familiar names in the results that year.
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Kip Janvrin had a truckload of various records....
Not mentioned was that he once scored 72.5 points by himself in a conference championship meet. He could also run a very good 800m.
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