Ashton Eaton

Ashton Eaton
Eaton at the 2012 Indoor World Championships
Full name	Ashton James Eaton
nation	United States
birthday	21st January 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Portland , United States
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon , heptathlon 400-meter hurdles
Best performance	9045 points, 6645 points 48.69 s
society	Oregon Track Club
Trainer	Harry Marra
status	resigned
End of career	2017
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 2012 London Decathlon gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Decathlon  World championships silver 2011 Daegu Decathlon gold 2013 Moscow Decathlon gold 2015 Beijing Decathlon  Indoor world championships gold 2012 Istanbul Heptathlon gold 2014 Sopot Heptathlon

Ashton Eaton (born January 21, 1988 in Portland , Oregon ) is a retired American athlete . He held the world record in the decathlon from 2012 to 2018 and is the current world record holder in the heptathlon held in indoor competitions . As an outstanding runner and jumper in the history of the all-around competition, he was able to more than make up for his average performance in the throwing disciplines.

Life

Eaton studied psychology at the University of Oregon at Eugene from 2006 to 2010 . In 2008 he was NCAA -Master in the decathlon, but missed fifth of the US knockouts qualifying for the Olympic Games in Beijing . The following year he won the NCAA indoor championships in the heptathlon and successfully defended his outdoor title. At the US championships he was second behind Trey Hardee . A short time later, however, he only finished 18th in the decathlon at the World Championships in Berlin , while Hardee won the gold medal.

In 2010 Eaton improved the heptathlon world record of compatriot Dan O'Brien by 23 to 6499 points at the NCAA indoor championships . With personal bests in four individual disciplines, he increased this mark in 2011 in Tallinn to 6568 points. In the same year he won the US championships in the decathlon with 8729 points and exceeded his previous best by 272 points. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , he won the silver medal behind defending champion Trey Hardee with 8505 points.

At the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul , Eaton won the heptathlon title with 6645 points, increasing his world record by 77 points. His lead of 574 points over the second-placed Ukrainian Oleksij Kasyanow was the largest in the history of the World Indoor Championships and his long jump performance of 8.16 m was the best in a heptathlon.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Eaton safely won the gold medal with 8869 points. Over 100 meters and 400 meters as well as in the long jump he achieved the best performance of all participants; in the javelin throw he set a new personal best. 2013 he was at the World Championships in Moscow with 8809 points for the first time world champion .

At the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot , Eaton defended his heptathlon title with 6303 points. As announced in February, he then focused on the 400-meter hurdle distance . On April 19, he made his official debut over the track in Walnut with 50.01 seconds. Then he improved almost regularly from competition to competition until he was soon among the world's best. In May he stayed below the 50-second mark for the first time, and in June he achieved his first Diamond League victory in Oslo . In Ostrava it increased to 48.94 s and at the Glasgow Grand Prix it ran with 48.69 s in second place and in the top ten of the world best of the year.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , he again won the decathlon title. He improved his own world record with 9045 points, which earned him an additional bonus of 100,000  US dollars . The record was exceeded in 2018 by Frenchman Kevin Mayer with a performance of 9126 points at the Décastar in Talence.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Eaton won the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 8,893 points ahead of Kevin Mayer and Canadian Damian Warner .

Eaton has been married to former Canadian heptathlete Brianne Theisen-Eaton since July 2013 .

At the beginning of 2017, he and his wife jointly announced their resignation. The reason given by Eaton was a lack of athletic goals.

World records

2012

On June 23, 2012, he set a new decathlon world record with 9039 points at the US qualifying competitions in Eugene for the Olympic Games in London , thus improving the previous eleven-year record of the Czech Roman Šebrle by 13 points. Eaton's achievements in the 100-meter run (10.21 s) and in the long jump (8.23 m) were the best ever achieved within a decathlon. For this world record, he received a $ 750,000 bonus from his sponsor Nike .

Eaton at the long jump in Sopot

The individual services:

discipline	power	Points
0100 meters	10.21 s	1044
0Long jump	8.23 m	1120
0Shot put	14.20 m	741
0high jump	2.05 m	850
0400 meters	46.70 s	973
0110 meter hurdles	13.70 s	1014
0Discus throw	42.81 m	722
0Pole vault	5.30 m	1004
0Javelin throw	58.87 m	721
01500 meters	4: 14.48 min	850
0total score		9039

2015

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , he improved the record on August 29, 2015 by six points to 9045 points. For this, he received an extra bonus of 100,000 US dollars from the IAAF . His 400-meter performance of 45.00 s was the fastest time in a decathlon over this distance.

The individual services:

discipline	power	Points
0100 meters	10.23 s	1040
0Long jump	7.88 m	1030
0Shot put	14.52 m	760
0high jump	2.01 m	813
0400 meters	45.00 s	1060
0110 meter hurdles	13.69 s	1015
0Discus throw	43.34 m	733
0Pole vault	5.20 m	972
0Javelin throw	63.63 m	793
01500 meters	4: 17.52 min	829
0total score		9045

Top performances

100 meters:	10.21 s	June 22, 2012 ( Eugene )
Long jump:	8.23 m	June 22, 2012 (Eugene)
Shot put:	15.40 m	March 30, 2013 ( Palo Alto )
High jump:	2.11 m	June 10, 2012 ( Burnaby )
400 meters:	45.00 s	August 28, 2015 ( Beijing )
110 meter hurdles:	13.35 s	June 4, 2011 (Eugene)
Discus throw:	47.36 m	August 14, 2011 ( Chula Vista )
Pole vault:	5.40 m	August 8, 2015 ( Portland )
Javelin throw:	66.64 m	March 16, 2013 ( San Luis Obispo )
1500 meters:	4: 14.48 s	June 23, 2012 (Eugene)
Decathlon:	9045 points	August 29, 2015 (Beijing)
200 metres:	20.76 s	April 19, 2013 ( Walnut )
400 meter hurdles:	48.69 s	July 11, 2014 ( Glasgow )

Web links

Commons : Ashton Eaton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ashton Eaton in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait of Ashton Eaton on the USATF website
• Athlete portrait by Ashton Eaton on the Oregon Ducks website
• Athlete portrait by Ashton Eaton on decathlon2000.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF: Eaton tallies 8729 world leader in Eugene - IAAF Combined Events Challenge ( Memento of 3 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ) (English) 25 June 2011 at
2. ↑ IAAF: Eaton totals 6645 points Heptathlon World record in Istanbul! (English), March 10, 2012
3. ↑ Decathlon world record holder Eaton: King of China Spiegel Online, August 29, 2015, accessed on August 29, 2015.
4. ↑ Silke Bernhart: 9.126 points: Kevin Mayer pulverized the decathlon world record. (No longer available online.) Leichtathletik.de, September 16, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 17, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton resign. Leichtathletik.de, January 4, 2017, accessed January 4, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Spiegel Online: Eaton sets world record in decathlon , June 24, 2012
7. ↑ IAAF: 9039 points! Eaton breaks World record before a home crowd in Eugene - IAAF Combined Events Challenge (English), June 24, 2012.
8. ↑ Chicago Tribune: Nike to pay decathlete $ 750,000 for setting world record (English), June 26, 2012
9. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Message from June 24, 2012 , accessed on July 21, 2012. The running text gives a time of 46.80 seconds for 400 meters, in the summary below the time is correctly given as 46.70 seconds.
10. ^ IAAF: Decathlon result , accessed on August 30, 2015.