2025-08 Kalevan Kisat - Miesten 10-ottelu

The competition

Tarmo Savola won the men's decathlon at the Finnish championships with 7807 points and eight to spare. Joni Heikkinen finished on 7799, and both of them scored well above their own PB series: Savola by 204, Heikkinen by 308.

Savola led nine of the ten events. The one he did not was the discus, where Heikkinen went ahead by two points, and the two of them were two points apart after the shot, two apart again after the discus, and eight apart at the end.

Savola opened 52 points above his series with 10.83 and was still 87 up at the day break on 4208. The pole vault is where the meeting turned: 4.70 was worth 819 points and 146 above his series, and it took him from two behind to 115 ahead. He gave 53 of that back in the javelin and closed in 4:43.27 for 660 points, 15 above his series. His 7807 beats the 7603 he scored at Vaasa in June 2024.

Joni Heikkinen produced the larger gain and the faster finish and still came up short. He was 200 points above his series at the day break on 4054, with 7.30 in the long jump worth 79 of them, and second after every event but the discus. Going into the 1500m he was 114 behind. He ran 4:26.83 for 766 points, 106 more than Savola took from the same four laps, and finished 8 away. His 7799 beats the 7491 he scored at Göteborg in June.

Ville Toivonen was third throughout the second day and finished 132 under his series on 7268, the pole vault at 4.20 costing 87 of it and the javelin another 45.

The competition produced personal bests down the order: Leo Rautiainen fourth 316 above his series, Aleksi Hakanen fifth 354 above, Matias Tapanainen seventh 380 above, the largest gain of the meeting, and Ville Kattelus eighth 110 above.

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