The montage of photos above show Ashton Eaton clearing the high jump bar,
pole vaulting (day two), putting
the shot and winning his 100 metres heat .
| |
| Men's Decathlon. 2012 Olympic Games |
| 1. Ashton EATON |
|
USA |
|
8869pts |
| 2. Trey HARDEE |
|
USA |
|
8671pts |
| 3. Leonel SUAREZ |
|
CUB |
|
8523pts |
4. Hans VAN ALPHEN
|
|
BEL |
|
8447pts |
5. Damian WARNER
|
|
CAN |
|
8442pts |
| 6. Rico FREIMUTH |
|
GER |
|
8320pts |
| 7. Oleksiy KASYANOV |
|
UKR |
|
8283pts |
| 8. Sergey SVIRIDOV |
|
RUS |
|
8219pts |
| |
| Points Breakdown |
| 1. 100m |
|
10.35 |
|
1011pts |
| 2. Long Jump |
|
8.03m |
|
1068pts |
| 3. Shot Put |
|
14.66m |
|
769pts |
| 4. High Jump |
|
2.05m |
|
850pts |
| 5. 400m |
|
46.90 |
|
963pts |
| 6. 110m Hurdles |
|
13.56 |
|
1032pts |
| 7. Discus |
|
42.53m |
|
716pts |
| 8. Pole Vault |
|
5.20m |
|
972pts |
| 9. Javelin |
|
61.96m |
|
767pts PB |
| 10.1500m |
|
4:33.59 |
|
721pts |
.
At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials Ashton Eaton set a new World Record for the decathlon of 9039, breaking Roman Šebrle's
score of 9026 points set in 2001, at Götzis. He also beat Dan O'Brien's American record of 8891 points set in 1992.
He thus became the second athlete to score over 9,000 points. At he U.S. trial he ran a 10.21 100 metres and long jumped
8.23 (27 feet) both, as at the Olympics, 1,000 plus scoring events.
In March at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbulhe improved his own heptathlon World Record
of 6568 with a new score of 6645.