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O'Brien, Dan Dion (1966– )| US athlete. He was decathlon champion at three successive World Championships, 1991, 1993, and 1995, and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He broke British athlete Daley Thompson's long-standing world decathlon record in 1992, with a score of 8,891 points. This record was surpassed, by just three points, by Tomaš Dvořák of the Czech Republic in Prague in July 1999. |
World Championships gold 1991, 1993, 1995 |
| He was born in Portland, Oregon, and first rose to international prominence 1991 when he won the decathlon at the World Championships in Tokyo. The following year, however, he failed to make the US team for the Barcelona Olympics after a poor performance in the pole vault. He overcame this set-back by breaking Thompson's world record later the same year. |
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