Trey Hardee

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Hardee in Eugene 2008.jpg
Hardee at the 2008 US Trials

Full name James Edward Hardee III
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 7th February 1984
place of birth Birmingham , United States
size 196 cm
Weight 96 kg
Career
discipline Decathlon
status resigned
End of career 2017
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor World Cup 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver London 2012 Decathlon
IAAF logo World championships
gold Berlin 2009 Decathlon
gold Daegu 2011 Decathlon
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
silver Doha 2010 Heptathlon

James Edward "Trey" Hardee III (born February 7, 1984 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is a former US decathlete and world champion in 2009 and 2011. With a height of 1.96 m, his competition weight was 96 kg.

Career

Trey Hardee was born in 1984 in Birmingham, where he also grew up. He originally wanted to be a basketball player , but was taken off the school team during his junior year of high school in Vestavia Hills . Hardee then turned to athletics. He started with the pole vault and once a year took part in the national championships in the decathlon, initially due to the days off from school. After graduating from high school in 2002, Hardee enrolled at Mississippi State University . There he switched from pole vault to decathlon.

In 2003, Hardee finished seventh in the pole vault at the college indoor championships SEC and third in the decathlon with 7544 points. In the same year he was in the college championships NCAA with 7468 points fifth. In the following years Hardee was able to continuously improve in the decathlon. In 2004 he finished second at the NCAA championships with 8041 points, won the SEC championships with 7480 points and the NACAC championships for under 23-year-olds with 7218 points .

After discontinuing the track and field program at Mississippi State University in 2004, Hardee moved to the University of Texas at Austin . In 2005 he won the NCAA championships for the first time with 7881 points. At the Texas Relays in the same year he also won the decathlon (7839 points) and took medal positions at the indoor championships in Houston (silver) and the NCAA heptathlon (bronze). In 2006, Hardee led again at the NCAA championships after seven out of ten disciplines, before he could not achieve a valid attempt in the pole vault and dropped back to ninth place in the victory of Jake Arnold . In the same year, Hardee succeeded in surpassing the 8000 point mark for the first time at the Texas Relays . With 8,465 points he set a new championship record and was the fifth best decathlete in the USA at the end of the year.

After Hardee had not contested a decathlon in 2007, he finished second in the US qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics . At the same time, the 8,534 points achieved meant a new personal best for the American and, at the end of the year, the fifth best performance in the world. At the Olympic decathlon in Beijing , Hardee was temporarily in fourth place, before he was eliminated in his parade discipline pole vault without a valid attempt. In the same year he won the Texas Relays for the third time with 8371 points .

At the end of June 2009 Hardee won the US championship title in the decathlon with 8261 points ahead of Ashton Eaton and Jake Arnold, benefiting from an injury to Olympic champion Bryan Clay . In the same year, the American led the field of favorites with 133 points at the traditional all- around meeting in Götzis, Austria, after nine out of ten disciplines, before he was surprisingly relegated to second place by the German Michael Schrader in the final 1,500 meter run .

Hardee at the 2009 World Athletics Championships

At the World Championships in Berlin , Hardee benefited from Schrader's injury-related cancellation and set the fastest time in the 100-meter run with 10.45 s , improved his personal best in the long jump to 7.83 m and in the shot put by almost one meter to 15, 33 m. He lost the lead after the first three competitions in the high jump, but took it back after the sixth discipline, the 110-meter hurdles, where he achieved the daily best time of 13.86 s. With a new personal record in the javelin throw, Hardee won the world title ahead of the Cubans Leonel Suárez and Alexander Pogorelow from Russia. The 8790 points achieved meant a new personal best and an improvement on Suárez's world annual best (8654 points). At the same time Hardee was with this result the third best decathlete in US track and field history behind Dan O'Brien and Bryan Clay. Months later, this success earned him the Jim Thorpe All-Around Award from the United States Sports Academy .

At the World Indoor Championships 2010 in Doha , Hardee had to admit defeat to the resurgent Bryan Clay and won the silver medal with the season best of 6184 points, only 20 points behind his compatriot. In 2011 Hardee won the all- around meeting in Götzis for the first time and won with 8689 points ahead of the Cuban Suárez and the Estonian Mikk Pahapill . In the same year he was able to defend his decathlon title with 8607 points in front of his compatriot Ashton Eaton (8505 points) and Leonel Suárez (8501) at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea . At the following Olympic Games in London in 2012 , as expected, he had to admit defeat to his teammate and new world record holder Ashton Eaton and won the silver medal with 8671 points. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , he retired due to injury after the high jump, after failing at his starting height of 1.90 m.

In 2017 he fell at the World Championships in London in the 110-meter hurdles, gave up the competition and then declared his retirement.

Trey Hardee lives in Austin , Texas . He was trained by Mario Sategna.

Personal best

Hardee after his World Cup success in Daegu (2011)

Top performances by Trey Hardee in the individual decathlon disciplines in outdoor conditions:

discipline Result date place
100 m 10.39 s May 29, 2010 Götzis
Long jump 7.88 m May 28, 2011 Götzis
Shot put 15.72 m June 22, 2012 Eugene
high jump 2.05 m August 21, 2008 Beijing
400 m 47.51 s June 7, 2006 Sacramento
110 m hurdles 13.54 s August 9, 2012 London
Discus throw 52.68 m April 3, 2008 Austin
Pole vault 5.35 m June 26, 2015 Eugene
Javelin throw 68.99 m August 28, 2011 Daegu
1500 m 4: 40.94 min August 9, 2012 London

(As of June 23, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at london2012.com (accessed on 15 September 2012).
  2. ↑ cf. Crumpacker, John: Vault flop KOs leader Hardee . In: San Francisco Chronicle , June 9, 2006, p. C7
  3. ↑ cf. Graham, Pat: With Gay gone, 100 is Mr. Rodgers' neighborhood . The Associated Press State & Local Wire, Jun 27, 2009 8:40 AM GMT, Eugene, Oregon
  4. ↑ cf. Michael Schrader . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 27/2009 from June 30, 2009, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 29/2009 (accessed on August 20, 2009 via Munzinger Online)
  5. ↑ cf. Lieske, Matti: Jürgens Erben A treacherous competition: the decathlon, parts 1 to 5 . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 20, 2009, issue 193, p. 12
  6. ↑ cf. Lieske, Matti: The king is coming, the king is going A grueling affair: the decathlon, part 6 to 10 . In: Berliner Zeitung, August 21, 2009, issue 194, p. 10
  7. ↑ cf. Starcevic, Nesha: Hardee has last laugh in decathlon win at worlds . Associated Press Online, Aug 21, 2009, 12:09 PM GMT, Berlin
  8. ↑ cf. Hardee receives Thorpe Award from US Sports Academy ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at iaaf.org, November 18, 2009 (accessed on August 28, 2011).
  9. ↑ Trey Hardee retires from Decathlon. In: nbcsport.com , August 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hardee, Trey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardee, James Edward III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American decathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham