Records
| Standing records prior to the 1994 season in track and field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Record |  Dan O'Brien (USA) |
8891 | September 5, 1992 |  Talence, France
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This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1994 in the men's decathlon. One of the main events during this season were the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the competition started on August 12, 1994, and ended on August 13, 1994.
| Standing records prior to the 1994 season in track and field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Record | Dan O'Brien (USA) |
8891 | September 5, 1992 | Talence, France
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| Rank | Points | Athlete | Venue | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8735 |  Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR) |
Götzis, Austria | 1994-05-29 | NR |
| 2 | 8715 | Dan O'Brien (USA) |
Saint Petersburg, Russia | 1994-07-29 | |
| 3 | 8548 | Steve Fritz (USA) |
Knoxville, United States | 1994-06-15 | |
| 4 | 8505 | Christian Plaziat (FRA) |
Lyon, France | 1994-07-03 | |
| 5 | 8453 | Alain Blondel (FRA) |
Helsinki, Finland | 1994-08-13 | PB |
| 6 | 8403 |  Henrik Dagård (SWE) |
Talence, France | 1994-09-11 | NR |
| 7 | 8326 |  Michael Smith (CAN) |
Victoria, Canada | 1994-08-24 | |
| 8 | 8313 |  Tomáš Dvořák (CZE) |
Lyon, France | 1994-07-03 | |
| 9 | 8309 |  Stefan Schmid (GER) |
Talence, France | 1994-09-11 | |
| 10 | 8287 | Kip Janvrin (USA) |
Knoxville, United States | 1994-06-14 | |
| 11 | 8281 | Sheldon Blockburger (USA) |
Knoxville, United States | 1994-06-15 | |
| 12 | 8257 |  Vitaliy Kolpakov (UKR) |
Brixen, Italy | 1994-07-03 | |
| 13 | 8234 | Paul Foxson (USA) |
Sacramento, United States | 1994-04-16 | PB |
| 14 | 8224 | William Motti (FRA) |
Talence, France | 1994-09-11 | |
| 15 | 8219 | Dave Johnson (USA) |
Azusa, United States | 1994-04-14 | |
| 16 | 8201 |  Lev Lobodin (RUS) |
Helsinki, Finland | 1994-08-13 | |
| 17 | 8160 |  Antonio Peñalver (ESP) |
Alhama de Murcia, Spain | 1994-06-05 | |
| 18 | 8112 | Thorsten Dauth (GER) |
Aachen, Germany | 1994-07-10 | |
| 19 | 8106 |  Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) |
Vienna, Austria | 1994-06-26 | |
| 20 | 8105 | Sébastien Levicq (FRA) |
Götzis, Austria | 1994-05-29 | |
| 21 | Andrew Fucci (USA) |
Knoxville, United States | 1994-06-15 | ||
| 22 | Igor Matsanov (BLR) |
Gomel, Belarus | 1994-08-24 | PB | |
| 23 | 8093 |  Eugenio Balanqué (CUB) |
Havana, Cuba | 1994-06-24 | |
| 24 | 8093 |  Erki Nool (EST) |
Tallinn, Estonia | 1994-07-03 | |
| 25 | 8078 |  Alex Kruger (GBR) |
Götzis, Austria | 1994-05-29 |