Bryan Clay

Bryan Clay
Full name	Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay
nation	United States
birthday	January 3, 1980
place of birth	Austin
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8832 points
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 2 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Athens 2004 Decathlon gold Beijing 2008 Decathlon  World championships gold Helsinki 2005 Decathlon  Indoor world championships silver Budapest 2004 Decathlon silver Moscow 2006 Decathlon gold Doha 2008 Decathlon gold Valencia 2010 Decathlon
last change: August 29, 2013

Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980 in Austin , Texas ) is a former American decathlete .

Clay moved to Hawaii from Texas when he was five . He attended James B. Castle High School and then Azusa Pacific College. Clay celebrated first successes in 1999 when he won the title at the US Junior Championships and the Pan American Junior Games. In 2001 in Edmonton and in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis , Clay took part in the world championships, but did not finish the competitions.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he won the silver medal behind the Czech Roman Šebrle and set a personal best with 8,820 points. The following year he won the title at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and left Šebrle with 8732 points by more than 200 points. Clay won silver in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004 and in Moscow in 2006 . In 2004 Šebrle won and in 2006 André Niklaus won .

In 2006 Clay won the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he had to give up the competition after four disciplines due to injury. In 2008 Clay won gold in the decathlon at the Beijing Olympics .

Clay is 1.80 m tall and weighs 84 kg. He is a relatively balanced all-rounder in the first nine disciplines, but falls significantly behind most of the other decathletes in the 1,500 meter run . In the discus throw , Clay holds a world record for decathletes in competitions over 7000 points with 55.87 m (2005 in Carson).

literature

• Hans van Kuijen: 2005 Annual Combined Events. Self-published, Helmond 2006.
• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .
• zurgams (Ed.): Time leaps. 35 years of all-around meeting Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9 .

Web links

• Bryan Clay's official website
• Bryan Clay in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Bryan Clay in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

1. ↑ halternerzeitung.de: Decathlete Clay leads - Schrader surprisingly 8th ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.