Dan O’Brien was deemed one of the best decathlon athletes of the 1990s, winning an Olympic gold medal after winning three consecutive world titles. O'Brien won the Olympic gold medal for decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and also won gold medals at the 1991, 1993, and 1995 World Championships in Athletics. In 1992 he set a world record of 8,891 points, and appeared with U.S. rival Dave Johnson in a popular TV advertising campaign for Reebok. The series of commercials, entitled Dan & Dave," were meant to build interest in Reebok and the decathletes, culminating in the1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the late 1990s, Dan O'Brien appeared in ads for Italian designer Versace. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2005, along with Dave Johnson."
