Morgan Griffiths, a rising senior at the University of Kansas, won the inaugural Women’s Open Decathlon Championship on Sunday evening with a score of 5,939 points after two days of competition in Grass Valley, California. The 21-year-old said her coaches didn’t mind her tackling the decathlon, though several high-profile coaches recently said they…
The modern era of track and field has nearly equalized opportunities at the sport’s highest levels for male and female athletes, with one key outlier: the combined events. Although men have competed across 10 events in various forms of the decathlon since the 1890s, women are still limited to the…
