| | Event type
Decathlon, Men
| Date | 11 – 12 July 1924 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Stade Yves-de-Manoir, Colombes | |
| Participants | 36 from 22 countries | |
| Format | Scoring by 1912B point tables. | |
In an era in which the Olympic decathlon was the only international competition, it was difficult to pick a favorite in 1924. Harold Osborn won the US Olympic Trials, and was the US champion in 1923 and runner-up in 1922. Earlier at the Olympics, he had won the high jump. His Olympic decathlon victory in Paris makes him the only Olympic decathlon champion to have also won another individual title at the Olympics, as of 2024. Osborn’s teammate, Emerson Norton, was leading thru eight events but stumbled badly in the javelin and 1,500.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Points (1934 Tables) | Points (1952 Tables) | Points (1962 Tables) | Points (1985 Hand Tables) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harold Osborn |  USA | 7710.7750 | 6872 | 6164 | 6668 | 6476 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Emerson Norton | USA | 7350.8950 | 6554 | 5738 | 6340 | 6117 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Aleksander Klumberg |  EST | 7329.3600 | 6387 | 5531 | 6260 | 6057 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Antti Huusari |  FIN | 7005.1750 | 6196 | 5383 | 6119 | 5952 | |||
| 5 | Ernest Sutherland |  RSA | 6794.1425 | 5985 | 5150 | 5943 | 5749 | |||
| 6 | Ernst Gerspach |  SUI | 6743.5300 | 5975 | 5167 | 5959 | 5765 | |||
| 7 | Helge Jansson |  SWE | 6656.1600 | 5875 | 4996 | 5861 | 5633 | |||
| 8 | Harry Frieda | USA | 6618.3000 | 5756 | 4871 | 5754 | 5541 | |||
| 9 | Paavo Yrjölä | FIN | 6548.5250 | 5767 | 4856 | 5742 | 5547 | |||
| 10 | Harry de Keijser |  NED | 6509.6100 | 5696 | 4800 | 5702 | 5458 | |||
| 11 | Adolfo Contoli |  ITA | 6406.8825 | 5660 | 4814 | 5710 | 5523 | |||
| 12 | Antoni Cejzik |  POL | 6319.4550 | 5554 | 4645 | 5577 | 5375 | |||
| 13 | Enrique Thompson |  ARG | 6310.5250 | 5733 | 4955 | 5779 | 5615 | |||
| 14 | Gvido Jekals |  LAT | 5981.6700 | 5401 | 4557 | 5479 | 5314 | |||
| 15 | Constant Bucher | SUI | 5961.5925 | 5350 | 4506 | 5448 | 5268 | |||
| 16 | Eugen Uuemaa | EST | 5899.1050 | 5302 | 4448 | 5357 | 5186 | |||
| 17 | Josse Ruth |  BEL | 5866.6700 | 5470 | 4724 | 5480 | 5384 | |||
| 18 | Peroslav Ferković |  YUG | 5517.9250 | 5055 | 4197 | 5161 | 4975 | |||
| 19 | Bill Shanahan |  IRL | 5426.6800 | 4988 | 4136 | 5068 | 4931 | |||
| 20 | Gaston Médecin |  MON | 5347.5400 | 4880 | 4239 | 4917 | 4937 | |||
| 21 | Elmar Rähn | EST | 5292.7600 | 4764 | 3996 | 4845 | 4707 | |||
| 22 | Tokushige Noto |  JPN | 5248.3300 | 5038 | 4305 | 5101 | 5090 | |||
| 23 | Édouard Armand |  HAI | 5207.8950 | 4782 | 4020 | 4765 | 4741 | |||
| 24 | Stelios Benardis |  GRE | 5189.1600 | 4650 | 3707 | 4802 | 4606 | |||
| 25 | Donald Slack |  GBR | 5148.1050 | 4777 | 3945 | 4898 | 4803 | |||
| Gabriel Sempé |  FRA | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Percy Spark | GBR | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Dolfi Meier | SUI | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Dennis Duigan |  AUS | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Iivari Yrjölä | FIN | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Bertil Fastén | SWE | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Valter Ever | EST | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Ðuro Gašpar | YUG | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Elemér Somfay |  HUN | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Evert Nilsson | SWE | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Otto Anderson | USA | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Josef Polese |  AUT | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Hans Volckmar | AUT | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Kalle Korpi | FIN | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Louis Dejoie | HAI | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Luigi Binda | ITA | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Juan Taduran |  PHI | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Guillermo Newbery | ARG | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| René Joannes-Powell | BEL | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Carlo Butti | ITA | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Giuseppe Palmieri | ITA | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Mikio Oda | JPN | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Seiichi Ueda | JPN | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Charles Hoff |  NOR | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Jiří Svoboda |  TCH | – | – | – | – | – |