2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	31 athletes from 25 countries
Competition phase	8/9 August 2012
Medalist
gold	Ashton Eaton ( USA )
silver	Trey Hardee ( USA )
bronze	Leonel Suárez ( CUB )

The men's decathlon at the 2012 London Olympics was played on August 8th and 9th, 2012 in London's Olympic Stadium. 31 athletes took part in the competition.

There was a US double victory. Ashton Eaton won the gold medal, silver went to Trey Hardee . The Cuban Leonel Suárez won bronze.

For Germany took Rico Freimuth , Pascal Behrenbruch and Jan Felix Knobel part. Freimuth was sixth, Behrenbruch was tenth. Knobel gave up the competition after the eighth discipline.

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the rules that still apply today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Day one: 100 meters , long jump , shot put , high jump and 400 meters. Day two: 110 meter hurdles , discus throw , pole vault , javelin throw and 1500 meters

Notes: All times in this post are based on London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Bryan Clay ( USA )	8791 points	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Trey Hardee ( USA )	8607 points	Daegu 2011
European champion	Pascal Behrenbruch ( Germany )	8558 points	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Marcos Sanchez ( Puerto Rico )	7397 points	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Luiz Alberto de Araújo ( Brazil )	7944 points	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Hadi Sepehrzad ( Iran )	7506 points	Kobe 2011
African champions	Ali Kamé ( Madagascar )	7252 points	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Competition not in the championship program		Cairns 2012
German champions	Kai Kazmirek	7924 points	Wattenscheid 2012

Existing records

World record	Ashton Eaton ( United States )	9039 points	Eugene , USA	June 23, 2012
Olympic record	Roman Šebrle ( Czech Republic )	8893 points	Athens Decathlon , Greece	August 24, 2004
Annual best 2012	Ashton Eaton ( United States )	9039 points	Eugene , USA	June 23, 2012

Attendees

31 athletes from 25 countries had qualified for the Olympic competition. There were:

Surname	nation
Jangy Addy	Liberia
Luiz Alberto de Araújo	Brazil
Rifat Artikov	Uzbekistan
Daniel Awde	Great Britain
Gonzalo Barroilhet	Chile
Pascal Behrenbruch	Germany
Willem Coertzen	South Africa
Darius Draudvila	Lithuania
Mihail Dudas	Serbia
Ashton Eaton	United States
Edgars Eriņš	Latvia
Kurt Felix	Grenada
Rico Freimuth	Germany
Yordani García	Cuba
Trey Hardee	United States
Dmitry Karpov	Kazakhstan
Oleksiy Kasyanov	Ukraine
Jan Felix Knobel	Germany
Kevin Mayer	France
Eduard Michan	Belarus
Brent Newdick	New Zealand
Ilya Shkurenev	Russia
Roman Šebrle	Czech Republic
Eelco Sintnicolaas	Netherlands
Leonel Suarez	Cuba
Sergei Swiridov	Russia
Attila Szabó	Hungary
Keisuke Ushiro	Japan
Hans Van Alphen	Belgium
Ingmar Vos	Netherlands
Damian Warner	Canada

Disciplines

100 meters

August 8, 2012, 11:10 a.m.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Eaton 10.35 s 1011 02 Hardee 10.42 s 994 03 Warner 10.48 s 980 04th Kasyanov 10.56 s 961 05 Sincerity 10.65 s 940 06th de Araújo 10.70 s 929 07th Awde 10.71 s 926 08th Michan 10.74 s 919 09 Sviridov 10.78 s 910 10 García 10.80 s 906 11 Sintnicolaas 10.85 s 894 12 Addy 10.89 s 885 13 You the 10.90 s 883 14th Karpov 10.91 s 881 15th Draudvila 10.95 s 872 16 Vos 10.98 s 865 17th Eriņš 10.99 s 863 18th Shkurenev 11.01 s 858 19th Van Alphen 11.05 s 850 20th Behrenbruch 11.06 s 847 21st Coertzen 11.09 s 841 22nd Newdick 11.10 s 838 23 Felix 11.12 s 834 24 Szabó 11.15 s 827 25th Barroilhet 11.18 s 821 26th Suarez 11.27 s 801 27 Mayer 11.32 s 791 Ushiro 29 Artikov 11.37 s 780 30th Knobel 11.42 s 769 31 Šebrle 11.54 s 744

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 1011 02 Hardee 994 03 Warner 980 04th Kasyanov 961 05 Sincerity 940 06th de Araújo 929 07th Awde 926 08th Michan 919 09 Sviridov 910 10 García 906 11 Sintnicolaas 894 12 Addy 885 13 You the 883 14th Karpov 881 15th Draudvila 872 16 Vos 865 17th Eriņš 863 18th Shkurenev 858 19th Van Alphen 850 20th Behrenbruch 847 21st Coertzen 841 22nd Newdick 838 23 Felix 834 24 Szabó 827 25th Barroilhet 821 26th Suarez 801 27 Mayer 791 Ushiro 29 Artikov 780 30th Knobel 769 31 Šebrle 744

Long jump

Best sprinter and best long jumper was the future Olympic champion Asthon Eaton from the United States

August 8, 2012, 12:10 p.m.

The 2004 Czech Olympic champion Roman Šebrle did not take part in this second discipline.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Eaton 8.03 m 1068 02 Van Alphen 7.64 m 970 03 Felix 7.63 m 967 04th Kasyanov 7.55 m 947 05 Warner 7.54 m 945 06th Hardee 7.53 m 942 06th You the 7.53 m 942 08th Suarez 7.52 m 940 09 Sviridov 7.45 m 922 10 Sintnicolaas 7.37 m 903 11 Newdick 7.36 m 900 12 Vos 7.27 m 878 13 Shkurenev 7.25 m 874 14th Sincerity 7.21 m 864 14th Karpov 7.21 m 864 16 Coertzen 7.17 m 854 16 Mayer 7.17 m 854 18th de Araújo 7.16 m 852 19th Behrenbruch 7.15 m 850 20th Draudvila 7.12 m 842 21st Knobel 7.05 m 826 22nd Eriņš 6.98 m 809 23 Szabó 6.96 m 804 24 Michan 6.94 m 799 25th Addy 6.90 m 790 26th Ushiro 6.86 m 781 27 Awde 6.83 m 774 28 Barroilhet 6.80 m 767 29 García 6.75 m 755 30th Artikov 6.41 m 677 DNS Šebrle - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 2079 02 Hardee 1936 03 Warner 1925 04th Kasyanov 1908 05 Sviridov 1832 06th You the 1825 07th Van Alphen 1820 08th Sincerity 1804 09 Felix 1801 10 Sintnicolaas 1797 11 de Araújo 1781 12 Karpov 1745 13 Vos 1743 14th Suarez 1741 15th Newdick 1738 16 Shkurenev 1732 17th Michan 1718 18th Draudvila 1714 19th Awde 1700 20th Behrenbruch 1697 21st Coertzen 1695 22nd Addy 1675 23 Eriņš 1672 24 García 1661 25th Mayer 1645 26th Szabó 1631 27 Knobel 1595 28 Barroilhet 1588 29 Ushiro 1572 30th Artikov 1457

Shot put

August 8, 2012, 1:50 p.m.

The Briton Daniel Awde did not take part in this third discipline.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Karpov 16.47 m 880 02 Behrenbruch 15.67 m 831 03 Van Alphen 15.48 m 819 04th Knobel 15.29 m 808 05 Hardee 15.28 m 807 06th Draudvila 15.17 m 800 07th Newdick 15.09 m 795 08th Addy 14.97 m 788 09 Sincerity 14.87 m 782 10 Michan 14.75 m 774 11 Eaton 14.66 m 769 12 Suarez 14.50 m 759 13 Barroilhet 14.49 m 758 14th García 14.48 m 758 15th Kasyanov 14.45 m 756 16 Sviridov 14.42 m 754 17th Sintnicolaas 14.18 m 7.39 18th Artikov 14.11 m 735 19th Mayer 14.05 m 731 20th Szabó 13.93 m 724 21st Coertzen 13.79 m 715 22nd Vos 13.77 m 714 23 You the 13.76 m 714 24 Warner 13.73 m 712 25th Ushiro 13.59 m 703 26th de Araújo 13.52 m 699 27 Eriņš 13.45 m 695 28 Felix 13.28 m 684 29 Shkurenev 12.89 m 661 DNS Awde - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 2848 02 Hardee 2743 03 Kasyanov 2664 04th Van Alphen 2639 05 Warner 2637 06th Karpov 2625 07th Sincerity 2586 07th Sviridov 2586 09 You the 2539 10 Sintnicolaas 2536 11 Newdick 2533 12 Behrenbruch 2528 13 Draudvila 2514 14th Suarez 2500 15th Michan 2492 16 Felix 2485 17th de Araújo 2480 18th Addy 2463 19th Vos 2457 20th García 2419 21st Coertzen 2410 22nd Knobel 2403 23 Shkurenev 2393 24 Mayer 2376 25th Eriņš 2367 26th Szabó 2355 27 Barroilhet 1588 28 Ushiro 1572 29 Artikov 1457

high jump

The Cuban Leonal Suárez made up a lot of ground in the high jump

August 8, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Suarez 2.11 m 906 02 Eaton 2.05 m 850 Van Alphen Warner Coertzen Barroilhet Mayer Felix 09 Shkurenev 2.02 m 822 10 Hardee 1.99 m 794 Kasyanov Sviridov García Karpov Ushiro 16 Behrenbruch 1.96 m 767 Newdick Vos Draudvila You the 21st Sintnicolaas 1.93 m 740 Michan de Araújo Eriņš Addy Artikov 27 Sincerity 1.90 m 714 Knobel Szabó

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 3698 02 Hardee 3537 03 Van Alphen 3489 04th Warner 3487 05 Kasyanov 3458 06th Karpov 3419 07th Suarez 3406 08th Sviridov 3380 09 Felix 3335 10 You the 3306 11 Sincerity 3300 Newdick 13 Behrenbruch 3295 14th Draudvila 3281 15th Sintnicolaas 3276 16 Coertzen 3260 17th Michan 3232 18th Mayer 3226 19th Vos 3224 20th de Araújo 3220 21st Shkurenev 3215 22nd García 3213 23 Addy 3203 24 Barroilhet 3196 25th Knobel 3117 26th Eriņš 3107 27 Ushiro 3069 Szabó 29 Artikov 2932

400 meters

August 8, 2012, 10:30 p.m.

The Serb Mihail Dudaš did not participate in this fifth discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Eaton 46.90 s 963 02 Sincerity 48.06 s 906 03 Hardee 48.11 s 904 04th Warner 48.20 s 899 05 de Araújo 48.25 s 897 06th Michan 48.42 s 889 07th Kasyanov 48.44 s 888 08th Coertzen 48.56 s 882 09 Addy 48.64 s 878 10 García 48.76 s 873 Mayer 12 Sintnicolaas 48.85 s 868 13 Sviridov 48.91 s 866 14th Suarez 49.04 s 859 15th Van Alphen 49.18 s 853 16 Vos 49.62 s 832 17th Shkurenev 49.81 s 823 18th Karpov 49.83 s 822 19th Knobel 49.87 s 821 20th Behrenbruch 50.04 s 813 21st Draudvila 50.13 s 809 22nd Felix 50.17 s 807 23 Newdick 50.22 s 804 24 Eriņš 50.62 s 786 25th Ushiro 50.78 s 779 26th Szabó 50.83 s 777 27 Barroilhet 51.07 s 766 28 Artikov 51.91 s 729 DNS You the - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 4661 02 Hardee 4441 03 Warner 4386 04th Kasyanov 4346 05 Van Alphen 4342 06th Suarez 4265 07th Sviridov 4246 08th Karpov 4241 09 Sincerity 4206 10 Sintnicolaas 4144 11 Coertzen 4142 Felix 13 Michan 4121 14th de Araújo 4117 15th Behrenbruch 4108 16 Newdick 4104 17th Mayer 4099 18th Draudvila 4090 19th García 4086 20th Addy 4081 21st Vos 4056 22nd Shkurenev 4038 23 Barroilhet 3962 24 Knobel 3938 25th Eriņš 3893 26th Ushiro 3848 27 Szabó 3846 28 Artikov 3661

110 meter hurdles

World champion Trey Hardee, later silver medalist, ran the fastest time over the 110 m hurdles

August 9, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

Kurt Felix from Grenada did not participate in this sixth discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Hardee 13.54 s 1035 02 Eaton 13.56 s 1032 03 Sincerity 13.89 s 989 04th Kasyanov 14.09 s 963 05 Barroilhet 14.12 s 959 06th Coertzen 14.15 s 955 07th Michan 14.15 s 955 08th Addy 14.23 s 945 09 García 14.24 s 944 10 Behrenbruch 14.33 s 932 11 Warner 14.38 s 926 12 Shkurenev 14.39 s 925 13 Karpov 14.40 s 924 14th Sintnicolaas 14.43 s 920 15th Suarez 14.45 s 917 16 Vos 14.61 s 897 17th Artikov 14.74 s 881 18th de Araújo 14.79 s 875 19th Draudvila 14.87 s 865 20th Van Alphen 14.89 s 863 21st Szabó 14.92 s 859 22nd Newdick 15.02 s 847 23 Knobel 15.03 s 846 24 Eriņš 15.22 s 823 25th Sviridov 15.42 s 799 26th Ushiro 15.47 s 794 27 Mayer 15.59 s 780 DNS Felix - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 5693 02 Hardee 5476 03 Warner 5312 04th Kasyanov 5309 05 Van Alphen 5205 06th Sincerity 5195 07th Suarez 5182 08th Karpov 5165 09 Coertzen 5097 10 Michan 5076 11 Sintnicolaas 5064 12 Sviridov 5045 13 Behrenbruch 5040 14th García 5030 15th Addy 5026 16 de Araújo 4992 17th Shkurenev 4963 18th Draudvila 4955 19th Vos 4953 20th Newdick 4951 21st Barroilhet 4921 22nd Mayer 4879 23 Knobel 4784 24 Eriņš 4716 25th Szabó 4705 26th Ushiro 4642 27 Artikov 4542

Discus throw

The best discus thrower was the German Rico Freimuth

August 9, 2012, 10:55 am

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Sincerity 49.11 m 852 02 Van Alphen 48.28 m 835 03 Hardee 48.26 m 834 04th Sviridov 47.43 m 817 05 Kasyanov 46.72 m 802 06th Ushiro 46.66 m 801 07th Draudvila 46.43 m 796 08th Newdick 46.15 m 791 09 Knobel 46.10 m 790 10 Warner 45.90 m 785 11 Suarez 45.75 m 782 12 Addy 45.61 m 779 13 Szabó 45.14 m 770 14th Eriņš 45.10 m 769 15th Karpov 44.93 m 765 16 de Araújo 44.76 m 762 17th Behrenbruch 44.71 m 761 18th Michan 44.42 m 755 19th Coertzen 43.58 m 738 20th Artikov 43.53 m 737 21st Shkurenev 43.51 m 736 22nd Eaton 42.53 m 716 23 García 42.27 m 711 24 Vos 42.26 m 711 25th Barroilhet 41.27 m 690 26th Mayer 41.20 m 689 27 Sintnicolaas 32.26 m 509

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 6409 02 Hardee 6310 03 Kasyanov 6111 04th Warner 6097 05 Sincerity 6047 06th Van Alphen 6040 07th Suarez 5964 08th Karpov 5930 09 Sviridov 5862 10 Coertzen 5835 11 Michan 5831 12 Addy 5805 13 Behrenbruch 5801 14th de Araújo 5754 15th Draudvila 5751 16 Newdick 5742 17th García 5741 18th Shkurenev 5699 19th Vos 5664 20th Barroilhet 5611 21st Knobel 5574 22nd Sintnicolaas 5573 23 Mayer 5568 24 Eriņš 5485 25th Szabó 5475 26th Ushiro 5443 27 Artikov 5279

Pole vault

August 9, 2012, 1:55 pm

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Barroilhet 5.40 m 1035 02 Sintnicolaas 5.30 m 1004 03 Eaton 5.20 m 972 04th Shkurenev 5.10 m 941 Karpov 06th Sincerity 4.90 m 880 Ushiro 08th Hardee 4.80 m 849 Van Alphen 10 Suarez 4.70 m 819 Warner Behrenbruch Newdick Mayer 15th Kasyanov 4.60 m 790 Sviridov García de Araújo Szabó 20th Coertzen 4.50 m 760 Vos Eriņš 23 Michan 4.40 m 731 Artikov Knobel 26th Draudvila 4.20 m 673 Addy

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 7381 02 Hardee 7159 03 Sincerity 7027 04th Warner 6916 05 Kasyanov 6901 06th Van Alphen 6889 07th Karpov 6871 08th Suarez 6783 09 Sviridov 6652 10 Barroilhet 6646 11 Shkurenev 6640 12 Behrenbruch 6620 13 Coertzen 6595 14th Sintnicolaas 6577 15th Michan 6562 16 Newdick 6561 17th de Araújo 6544 18th García 6521 19th Addy 6478 20th Vos 6424 21st Draudvila 6424 22nd Mayer 6387 23 Ushiro 6323 24 Knobel 6305 25th Szabó 6265 26th Eriņš 6245 27 Artikov 6010

Javelin throw

August 9, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

The German Jan Felix Knobel did not take part in this ninth discipline.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Suarez 76.94 m 996 02 Sviridov 68.42 m 865 03 Hardee 66.65 m 838 04th Ushiro 66.38 m 834 05 Behrenbruch 64.80 m 810 06th Coertzen 64.79 m 810 07th Warner 62.77 m 780 08th Mayer 62.41 m 774 09 Eaton 61.96 m 767 10 Van Alphen 61.69 m 763 11 Vos 61.60 m 762 12 García 59.85 m 736 13 Newdick 59.82 m 735 14th Szabó 58.84 m 720 15th Sintnicolaas 58.82 m 720 16 Sincerity 57.37 m 698 17th Eriņš 57.35 m 698 18th Barroilhet 57.25 m 697 19th Artikov 56.62 m 687 20th Michan 55.69 m 673 21st Kasyanov 54.87 m 661 22nd Shkurenev 53.81 m 645 23 de Araújo 51.59 m 612 24 Addy 50.36 m 594 25th Draudvila 50.16 m 591 26th Karpov 49.93 m 588 DNS Knobel - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Eaton 8148 02 Hardee 7997 03 Suarez 7779 04th Warner 7696 05 Van Alphen 7652 06th Sincerity 7625 07th Kasyanov 7562 08th Sviridov 7517 09 Karpov 7459 10 Behrenbruch 7430 11 Coertzen 7405 12 Barroilhet 7343 13 Sintnicolaas 7297 14th Newdick 7296 15th Shkurenev 7285 16 García 7267 17th Michan 7235 18th Vos 7186 19th Mayer 7161 20th Ushiro 7157 21st de Araújo 7156 22nd Addy 7072 23 Draudvila 7015 24 Szabó 6985 25th Eriņš 6943 26th Artikov 6697

1500 meters

The fastest 1500 meter time was no longer enough for Belgian Hans Van Alphen to achieve a bronze medal

August 9, 2012, 10:20 pm

Classification

space	Surname	time	Points
01	Van Alphen	4: 22.50 min	795
02	Mayer	4: 23.02 min	791
03	Coertzen	4: 26.52 min	768
04th	Warner	4: 29.85 min	746
05	Suarez	4: 30.08 min	744
06th	Sintnicolaas	4: 31.17 min	737
07th	Eaton	4: 33.59 min	721
08th	Kasyanov	4: 33.68 min	721
09	Eriņš	4: 35.88 min	706
10	Sviridov	4: 36.63 min	702
11	Behrenbruch	4: 37.46 min	696
12	Sincerity	4: 37.62 min	695
13	de Araújo	4: 38.04 min	693
14th	Michan	4: 38.06 min	693
15th	Newdick	4: 38.20 min	692
16	García	4: 38.57 min	689
17th	Ushiro	4: 39.33 min	685
18th	Hardee	4: 40.94 min	674
19th	Shkurenev	4: 42.80 min	663
20th	Barroilhet	4: 48.23 min	629
21st	Vos	4: 50.01 min	619
22nd	Szabó	4: 53.81 min	596
23	Draudvila	5: 03.14 min	542
24	Addy	5: 08.14 min	514
25th	Artikov	5: 09.52 min	506
26th	Karpov	5: 16.83 min	467

initial situation

The favorites for this competition were primarily the two Americans Trey Hardee and Ashton Eaton. Hardee had won the title at the 2009 and 2011 world championships, while Eaton, runner-up in 2011, had set a new world record in the run-up to the London Games . The 2008 Olympic champion Bryan Clay, also USA, was not there in London. The expanded group of favorites included the Cuban Leonel Suárez, who was third in the 2011 World Cup and vice world champion in 2009, as well as the German Pascal Behrenbruch, who became European champion a few weeks before the games and also started as World Cup sixth in 2009 and World Cup seventh in 2011 .

Summary

Over 100 meters , the first discipline, Eaton was the fastest with 10.35 s, ahead of Hardee - 10.42 s - and the Canadian Damian Warner - 10.48 s. He was followed by the Ukrainian Oleksij Kasjanow with 10.56 s and the German Rico Freimuth with 10.65 s. The two favorites from the United States were already at the front after the first discipline.

In the long jump Eaton continued to its next level. At 8.03 m, he was the only one to exceed the 8-meter mark. The Belgian Hans Van Alphen - 7.64 m - and Kurt Felix from Grenada - 7.63 m followed a long way behind. Kasyanow - 7.55 m, Warner - 7.54 m - and Hardee - 7.53 m - clearly lost ground here. Eaton now led with 2079 points. He was already 143 points ahead of Hardee, 154 points ahead of Warner and 171 points ahead of Kasyanow. All the other decathletes were already more than two hundred points behind.

In the shot put , Kazakhs Dmitri Karpov was the only participant to exceed the 16-meter mark with 16.47 m. This was followed by Behrenbruch, who was disappointing in the first two disciplines - 15.67 m, Van Alphen - 15.48 m, German Jan Felix Knobel - 15.29 m - and Hardee - 15.28 m. Eaton hit 14.66 m and maintained his lead in the overall standings with 2848 points. Hardee was second, 105p behind, while Kasyanov was third, 184p. It was followed by Van Alphen - 199 P, Warner - 201 P, Karpow - 213 P and Freimuth - 272 P.

In the high jump , Suárez showed himself at his best with 2.11 m. With that he exceeded the next seven decathletes by six centimeters. Eaton, Van Alphen, Warner, the South African Willem Coertzen, the Chilean Gonzalo Barroilhet, the French Kevin Mayer and Felix jumped 2.05 m. Hardee and Kasyanow fell further back with 1.99 m. Eaton continued to be the clear leader with 3698 P. Hardee was 137P behind him. Van Alphen had improved to third with a deficit of 209 p, Warner was two points behind fourth ahead of Kasyanow, who was another 29 points behind. Karpov followed 279 P behind Eaton in sixth ahead of Suarez. Its deficit on Eaton was 292 P.

In the 400 meter run , the final discipline of the first day, Eaton was again the fastest with 46.90 seconds. It was followed by Freimuth - 48.06 s, Hardee - 48.11 s, Warner - 48.20 s and the Brazilian Luiz Alberto de Araújo - 48.25 s. Kasyanov scored 48.44 s. Suárez fell back significantly with 49.04 s, but his better second day was still ahead of him. After five disciplines, Eaton was in the lead with a strong 4661 points. Hardee was second, 222 p. Back, Warner was third - 285 p back, followed by Kasjanow - 325 p, Van Alphen - 329 p and Suárez - 396 p.

On the second day, the 110 meter hurdles were beaten by Hardee with 13.54 s, Eaton with 13.56 s and Freimuth with 13.89 s. The closest to them came Kasyanov and Barroilhet - 14.09 s - 14.12 s. Suárez ran with 14.45 s not as fast as in competitions before. Eaton already had 5693 points in his account. Hardee had caught up three tiny points but was still well behind by 217p. The order behind them had changed little, but the gaps had increased again. Warner was third with 381 points, Kasyanow was fourth, 384 points behind Eaton. It was followed by Van Alphen, who was 488 P behind Eaton. Freimuth was now sixth - 498 P, Suárez seventh - 511 P and Karpow eighth - 528 P on the front runner.

In the discus throw Freimuth took further on. He reached 49.11 m, with which he achieved the greatest distance here. But the gaps were close. Van Alphen scored 48.28 m, Hardee 48.26 m, the Russian Swiridow 47.43 m and Kasyanow 46.72 m. Warner came to 45.90 m Suarez to 45.70 m. Eaton was a little more behind with 42.53 m for the first time. In the interim standings, things continued to look good for him, he had 6409 points on his account. Hardee had clearly caught up and was only 99 p behind his compatriot. This was followed by Kasjanow - 299 P back, Warner - 412 P, Freimuth - 462 P, Van Alphen - 469 P - and Suárez - 445 P back.

The best pole vaulter was Barroilhet with 5.40 m. The Dutchman Eelco Sintnicolaas crossed 5.30 m, followed by Eaton with 5.20 m. With the two Russians Ilya Schkurenjow and Karpow - each 5.10 m - two athletes surpassed the 5-meter mark. Freimuth reached 4.90 m, Hardee and Van Alphen each 4.80 m, Suárez and Warner each 4.70 m. At the top with 7381 points was Eaton, who was now more than two hundred points ahead. 222 P behind, Hardee was still second. The third place was now 354 P behind Eaton Freimuth. Warner was fourth - 465 P behind Kasjanow - 480 P, Van Alphen - 492 P, Karpow - 510 P and Suárez - 598 P. The Cuban was 244 P behind on the bronze place. That was a lot, but as a brilliant javelin thrower the situation was not yet hopeless. Otherwise, the distribution of gold and silver seemed pretty clear, while the battle for bronze with numerous athletes was still completely open.

As expected, Suárez was by far the best javelin thrower with his 76.94 m. Nobody but him exceeded the 70-meter mark. Swiridow was the second best decathlete with 68.42 m, followed by Hardee - 68.42 m, followed by the Japanese Keisuke Ushiro - 66.38 m and Behrenbruch - 64.80 m. Of the top athletes, Warner was 62.77 m, Eaton 61.96 m and Van Alphen - 61.69 m. Freimuth - 57.37 m, Kasjanow - 54.87 m - and especially Karpow - 49.93 m - lost a lot of ground here. After the penultimate exercise, Eaton was 155 P ahead of Hardee with 8148 points. Suárez actually took third place behind Hardee by 220 p. Warner was now 83 P behind him, followed by Van Alphen - 127 P on Suárez, Freimuth - 154 P and Kasjanow - 217 P. In the last discipline, Eaton could not be overtaken except in the case of a fall or an injury. The same was true of Hardee on the silver court. Only the battle for bronze was not yet decided. Suárez, Warner and Van Alphen were good 1,500-meter runners and had the best cards.

The fastest 1500 meter runner in the field was Van Alphen with 4: 22.50 min. Mayer came in 4: 23.02 minutes ahead of Coertzen in 4: 26.52 minutes, Warner in 4: 29.85 minutes and Suárez in 4: 30.08 minutes. Sintnicolaas followed with 4: 31.17 min. Then Eaton came with 4: 33.59 minutes, Kasyanow scored 4: 33.68 minutes behind. Freimuth crossed the finish line with 4: 37.62 min, Hardee with 4: 40.94 min. With that the decision was made. Ashton Eaton became Olympic champion with 8869 points, just 24 points short of the 2004 Olympic record set by Czech Roman Šebrle. Trey Hardee achieved 198 points behind Eaton silver, Leonel Suárez was a further 148 points behind bronze medalist. Fourth place went to Hans Van Alphen, 76 points behind the bronze medal. Damian Warner finished fifth, just another five points behind, who set a new personal best with his 8442 points. Rico Freimuth followed on the next places ahead of Oleksij Kasjanow and Sergei Swiridow.

Ashton Eaton won the thirteenth gold medal for the United States in the decathlon .

Final score

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Ashton Eaton	United States	8869
2	Trey Hardee	United States	8671
3	Leonel Suarez	Cuba	8523
4th	Hans Van Alphen	Belgium	8447
5	Damian Warner	Canada	8442	PB
6th	Rico Freimuth	Germany	8320
7th	Oleksiy Kasyanov	Ukraine	8283
8th	Sergei Swiridov	Russia	8219
9	Willem Coertzen	South Africa	8173
10	Pascal Behrenbruch	Germany	8126
11	Eelco Sintnicolaas	Netherlands	8034
12	Brent Newdick	New Zealand	7988
13	Gonzalo Barroilhet	Chile	7972
14th	Yordani García	Cuba	7956
15th	Kevin Mayer	France	7952
16	Ilya Shkurenev	Russia	7948
17th	Eduard Michan	Belarus	7928
18th	Dmitry Karpov	Kazakhstan	7926
19th	Luiz Alberto de Araújo	Brazil	7849
20th	Keisuke Ushiro	Japan	7842
21st	Ingmar Vos	Netherlands	7805
22nd	Edgars Eriņš	Latvia	7649
23	Jangy Addy	Liberia	7586
24	Attila Szabó	Hungary	7581
25th	Darius Draudvila	Lithuania	7557
26th	Rifat Artikov	Uzbekistan	7203
DNF	Jan Felix Knobel	Germany		Task after the 8th discipline
	Kurt Felix	Grenada		Task after the 5th discipline
	Mihail Dudas	Serbia		Task after the 4th discipline
	Daniel Awde	Great Britain		Task after the 2nd discipline
	Roman Šebrle	Czech Republic		Task after the 1st discipline

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Ashton Eaton, USA

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  Silver medalist Trey Hardee, USA

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  Bronze medalist Leonel Suarez, USA

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  The Dutch Olympic champion Hans Van Alphen

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  The Canadian Damian Warner finished fourth

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  The German Rico Freimuth was sixth in the Olympics

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  The Ukrainian Oleksiy Kasjanow came in seventh place

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  The South African Willem Coertzen became an Olympic competitor

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  European champion Pascal Behrenbruch from Germany had expected more than this tenth place

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  The Dutchman Eelco Sintnicolaas came in eleventh

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  The New Zealander Brent Newdick took twelfth place

Web links

• SportsReference decathlon , accessed September 17, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 17, 2018
• Official result book Athletics , official results of the IOC, accessed on September 17, 2018

Videos

• Athletics Men's Decathlon Day 1 - Highlights | London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 9, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018
• USA's Ashton Eaton Wins Men's Decathlon Gold - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 10, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018
• Decathlon - Eaton Sets 100m Olympic Best - Full Event - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 8, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018
• Decathlon - 400m Men's Full Replays - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 8, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018
• Men's Decathlon 1500m Full Event - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 9, 2012, accessed September 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oceania Regional Championships 2012 - 27/06/2012 to 29/06/2012 (PDF, 143 kB), accessed on September 17, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF records. Decathlon men , accessed September 17, 2018