Bryan Clay won Decathlon

Posted on August 22, 2008 
Filed Under Athlete, Sport News

Bryan Clay is the first American who won decathlon in Olympics since 1996. Decathlon is an event with ten events and there is always tough competition in these events. It is very excited event because one must be good in average in all the events in order to win decathlon.

Bryan Clay was the silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics and world champion in 2005 and this time he won the event with 8791 points. The 522 points acquired in the 1500 meters ob late Friday helped him a lot. Dan O’Brien was the last athlete who won the Olympic decathlon in 1996, Atlanta.

Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus, Leonel Suarez of Cuba and Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic were the close competitors of Bryan Clay in the event. They won silver, bronze and sixth position respectively. Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic who is the Olympic champion could only manage to complete in 6th position.

In more than five of the ten events, Clay finished the competition with first or second positions and third in two more events. These help Clay to score the highest point in the overall performance. On the Friday, he extended his competition with finishing second in the 110 meter hurdle, winning discuss and his performance in pole vault.

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