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He only won the title after an appeal earlier in the day when the referee over ruled his field judges and ruled out Erki's discus throw of 43.66 metres. The appeal was successful and the Estonian took gold ahead of the Czech, Roman Šebrle and American Chris Huffins .
People stubs| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in the All around, pentathlon, and decathlon |
| As all-around: Tom Kiely |
| As pentathlon: Hjalmer Mellander | Jim Thorpe | Eero Lehtonen (twice) |
| As decathlon: Jim Thorpe | Helge Løvland | Harold Osborn | Paavo Yrjölä | Jim Bausch | Glenn Morris | Bob Mathias (twice) | Milt Campbell | Rafer Johnson | Willi Holdorf | Bill Toomey | Nikolay Avilov | Bruce Jenner | Daley Thompson (twice) | Christian Schenk | Robert Zmelík | Dan O'Brien | Erki Nool | Roman Sebrle |