Georg Werthner

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Georg Werthner (born 1956-04-07 in Linz) is a retired decathlete from Austria, who was the first athlete to finish four Olympic decathlons. In 1988 after him Daley Thompson crossed the finish-line to become the second athlete to do this.

Werthner's break through came in 1975, when he placed second at the European Junior Championships with 7424 points. After his first major success he was qualified for the World University Games in the same year, where he became fifth. In 1983 he scored a new Austrian national record in the pentathlon. His score of 4024 points is still place fourteen in the world alltime list. In his career Werthner started in 95 decathlons and finished 78 of them.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Distance
1975	World Student Games	Rome, Italy	5th	Decathlon
1976	Olympic Games	Montreal, Canada	16th	Decathlon
1979	World Student Games	Mexico City, Mexico	6th	Decathlon
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	4th	Decathlon
1981	World Student Games	Bucharest, Romania	3rd	Decathlon
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	5th	Decathlon
1983	World Student Games	Edmonton, Canada	3rd	Decathlon
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, USA	9th	Decathlon
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	21st	Decathlon