Rainer Pottel

Rainer Pottel on 24 May 1981 in Halle

Rainer Pottel (born 29 August 1953 in Berlin) is a retired decathlete, who represented East Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. He had the best performance in the world in 1981, collecting 8,334 points at a meet in Birmingham, England (30 August 1981). He is a three-time national champion (1974, 1977 and 1981) for East Germany in the men's decathlon.

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World best year performance in men's decathlon

1970: Rüdiger Demmig (GDR)
1971: Kurt Bendlin (FRG)
1972: Mykola Avilov (URS)
1973: Lennart Hedmark (SWE)
1974: Ryszard Skowronek (POL)
1975–1976: Bruce Jenner (USA)
1977: Aleksandr Grebenyuk (URS)
1978–1980: Guido Kratschmer (FRG)
1981: Rainer Pottel (GDR)
1982: Daley Thompson (GBR)
1983: Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)
1984: Daley Thompson (GBR)
1985: Torsten Voss (GDR)
1986: Daley Thompson (GBR)
1987: Torsten Voss (GDR)
1988: Christian Plaziat (FRA)
1989: Dave Johnson (USA)
1990: Christian Plaziat (FRA)
1991–1993: Dan O'Brien (USA)
1994: Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR)
1995–1996: Dan O'Brien (USA)
1997: Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)
1998: Dan O'Brien (USA)
1999–2000: Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)
2001–2004: Roman Šebrle (CZE)
2005–2006: Bryan Clay (USA)
2007: Roman Šebrle (CZE)
2008: Bryan Clay (USA)
2009: Trey Hardee (USA)
2010: Bryan Clay (USA)
2011–2013: Ashton Eaton (USA)
2014: Andrei Krauchanka (BLR)