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In 2005, the second annual Audrey Walton Combined Events played host to the first women's decathlon in North America. Former K-State [Kansas State] heptathlete Austra Skujytė broke the IAAF's newly-ratified World Record in the event, scoring 8,358 points.
Duplantis adopted the same record-breaking strategy as Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, who maximized bonus money by raising the bar one centimeter at a time on many occasions in the 1980s and '90s.