List of Olympic Decathlon Winners
| Games | World's Greatest Athlete | ||
| 1904 St. Louis | Tom Kiely (GBR) | ||
| 1908 London | Not included in the Olympic program | ||
| 1912 Stockholm | Jim Thorpe (USA) | ||
| Hugo Wieslander (SWE) | |||
| 1920 Antwerp | Helge Løvland (NOR) | ||
| 1924 Paris | Harold Osborn (USA) | ||
| 1928 Amsterdam | Paavo Yrjölä (FIN) | ||
| 1932 Los Angeles | James Bausch (USA) | ||
| 1936 Berlin | Glenn Morris (USA) | ||
| 1948 London | Robert Mathias (USA) | ||
| 1952 Helsinki | Robert Mathias (USA) | ||
| 1956 Melbourne | Milt Campbell (USA) | ||
| 1960 Rome | Rafer Johnson (USA) | ||
| 1964 Tokyo | Willi Holdorf (EUA) | ||
| 1968 Mexico City | Bill Toomey (USA) | ||
| 1972 Munich | Mykola Avilov (URS) | ||
| 1976 Montreal | Bruce Jenner (USA) | ||
| 1980 Moscow | Daley Thompson (GBR) | ||
| 1984 Los Angeles | Daley Thompson (GBR) | ||
| 1988 Seoul | Christian Schenk (GDR) | ||
| 1992 Barcelona | Robert Změlík (TCH) | ||
| 1996 Atlanta | Dan O'Brien (USA) | ||
| 2000 Sydney | Erki Nool (EST) | ||
| 2004 Athens | Roman Šebrle (CZE) | ||
| 2008 Beijing | Bryan Clay (USA) | ||
| 2012 London | Ashton Eaton (USA) | ||
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