Dan O'Brien

Dan O'Brien in 2009

Daniel Dion ( " Dan " ) O'Brien ( born July 18, 1966 in Portland, Oregon ) is a former American decathlete. He is Olympic champion and three-time world champion.

Dan O'Brien is considered the best decathlete of the 1990s. In his special discipline he was in 1991 in Tokyo, in Stuttgart in 1993 and 1995 in Gothenburg for three consecutive times world champion. Prior to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, ​​where he would be taken up as a big favorite, O'Brien failed sensational already at the U.S. Trials, the internal American qualifiers. This was a salto nullo pole vault. A few weeks later, O'Brien with 8891 points at Décastar in Talence a new world record in the decathlon on. At the Olympic Games in 1996, O'Brien rehabilitated and won the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta.

In 2012 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Portland (Oregon) Summer Olympic Games 1991 World Championships in Athletics 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1995 World Championships in Athletics 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships Hugo Wieslander Harold Osborn James Bausch Glenn Morris Bob Mathias Rafer Johnson Willi Holdorf Bill Toomey Bruce Jenner Daley Thompson Christian Schenk Erki Nool Bryan Clay Ashton Eaton Torsten Voss Tom Pappas Trey Hardee
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