Sten Ekberg won the Swedish Championship in both decathlon and heptathlon. Thorpe entered the U.S. Olympic trials for the pentathlon and the decathlon. Olympic trials for both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Hurdles race are also part of combined events contests, including the decathlon and heptathlon. American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the newly created decathlon. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon. Overall, Thorpe won eight of the 15 individual events comprising the pentathlon and decathlon. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, he competed in the long jump and high jump. Grier and Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson heard shots fired ahead of them. It is simply a smaller version of the decathlon or a heptathlon. Clay won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in the decathlon. Boxing, dumbbells, freestyle wrestling and the decathlon made their debuts. In 1955, he finished in fifth place in the Nation Championship decathlon. Rafer Johnson, winner of the decathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was a two-time state champion in the decathlon.