2021-06 Ratingen Men's Decathlon

#	Athlete	Points	Behind	vs. PB series
1	Kai Kazmirek (GER)	8184		-396
2	Mathias Brugger (GER)	8080	-104	-224
3	Andreas Bechmann (GER)	7955	-229	-177
4	Jannis Wolff (GER)	7831	-353	+161
5	Fredrik Samuelsson (SWE)	7681	-503	-491
6	Malik Diakité (GER)	7508	-676	-133
7	Luca Dieckmann (GER)	7475	-709	-21
8	Jan Ruhrmann (GER)	7397	-787	-437
9	Taavi Tšernjavski (EST)	7362	-822	-724
10	Keisuke Ushiro (JPN)	7337	-847	-971
11	Fynn Zenker (GER)	6659	-1525	-928
DNF	Paweł Wiesiołek (POL)
DNF	Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR)
DNF	Niklas Kaul (GER)
DNF	Niels Pittomvils (BEL)
DNF	Jirí Sýkora (CZE)
DNF	Benjamin Hougardy (BEL)
DNF	Tim Nowak (GER)
DNF	Basile Rolnin (FRA)

The hurdles decided the lead. Andreas Bechmann (GER) had led from the long jump and closed day 1 on 4370 with 66 in hand over Kazmirek. Kazmirek opened day 2 with 14.50 for 911 points, Bechmann ran 15.24 for 821, and the lead changed by 24. Kazmirek held it through the remaining four events and finished 104 clear.

Kazmirek was second at the day break on 4304 and 196 under his own PB series. The long jump had cost 77 at 7.38 against a 7.69 series mark and the high jump 65 at 2.03, and 47.26 over 400m for 945 points recovered none of it. Day 2 held the deficit roughly level through the hurdles, discus and vault, then the javelin opened it: 56.69 against a 64.60 series mark, 688 points and 119 down, which put him 328 under. The 1500m took another 68 and he finished 396 under the series that produced his personal best.

Mathias Brugger (GER) was sixth at the day break on 4072 and 191 under his PB series, having lost 61 in the long jump and 80 in the high jump. Day 2 kept sliding to 306 under after the pole vault, where 4.80 was 61 short of the series mark, before the javelin returned 59 at 55.69 against a 51.72 series mark and 4.20.45 in the 1500m for 808 points another 23. He moved from fourth to second in that closing run and took the place by 125.

Bechmann led five of the ten events. He was first at the break on 4370 and only 24 under his PB series, the shot having returned 68 at 15.38 against a 14.28 series mark. Day 2 went 108 above the series in the discus, 42.23 against a 36.93 series mark, and that was the high point: 4.80 in the vault cost 92, 53.35 in the javelin 121, and 4.58.82 in the 1500m 60 more. He finished third, 177 under the series.

Jannis Wolff (GER) took fourth, 124 behind Bechmann. The gap opened in the shot, where 13.12 for 675 points against Bechmann's 813 turned a 55-point deficit into 193, and it was never smaller than 248 again until the last event. The 1500m nearly closed it: 4.37.50 for 696 points against 567 took back 129, and it left him 124 short.

Niklas Kaul (GER) came in with the best pre-competition PB in the field, 8691 from Doha in October 2019. He was fifth on 6579 after the pole vault, 243 under his own PB series, and did not start the javelin. Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR), the third-ranked entrant on 8479 from Berlin in August 2009, recorded no valid mark in the 400m and dropped from eleventh to eighteenth; he ran the hurdles and threw the discus, stood seventeenth on 4853, and did not start the pole vault.

Wolff was the only man in the field to beat his PB series, by 161, which is also a personal best on the 7670 he scored in Vaterstetten in August 2020. It came from day 1, where he was 89 up at the break with 23 from the 100m, 33 from the long jump and 27 from the high jump, and from 14.70 in the hurdles for another 41. Fredrik Samuelsson (SWE), fifth, finished 491 under his PB series, the largest shortfall in the top five, with 99 lost in the 100m, 90 in the long jump and 114 in the hurdles.

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