Mike Smith (athlete)
Mike Smith (actually Michael Cameron Smith ; born September 16, 1967 in Kenora , Ontario ) is a Canadian decathlete .
Although Smith had 25 decathlons in his career with a score of 8,000 or more, he never got a big win. He was always overshadowed by Dan O'Brien , arguably the best decathlete of the 1990s. He achieved his greatest success at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , where he was runner- up behind O'Brien and ahead of the German Christian Schenk with a performance of 8549 points.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was the flag bearer of Canada at the opening ceremony. He had to give up the Olympic competition after the first day of competition due to injury. In 1995 he was once again a bronze medalist at the World Championships in Gothenburg .
Personal best
- Decathlon: 8626 points, posted on May 26, 1996 in Götzis
- 100 m: 10.70 s
- Long jump: 7.76 m
- Shot put: 18.03 m
- High jump: 2.14 m
- 400 m: 47.05 s
- 110 m hurdles: 14.24 s
- Discus throw: 52.90 m
- Pole vault: 5.20 m
- Javelin throw: 71.22 m
- 1,500 m: 4:20:04 min
- Heptathlon: 6279 points
A decathlon rating from the sum of personal bests would result in 9362 points. Only Dan O'Brien achieved a higher number of points with his individual performances.
literature
- zurgams (editor): Time leaps. 35 years of the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9
Web links
- Mike Smith in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Mike Smith in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Michael Cameron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian decathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenora (Ontario) |