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Decathlon, Men

Date	8 – 9 August 2012
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Stratford, London
Participants	31 from 25 countries
Format	Scoring by 1985 point tables.

Coming into the US Olympic Trials, it was considered possible that the United States might sweep the medals in this event at London. Bryan Clay was the defending champion, but he had been surpassed in 2010-11 by Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee. They had gone 1-2 at the 2011 World Championships, with Hardee winning, Eaton second. Unfortunately, Clay was struggling in 2012 with injuries and would not finish the Olympic Trials, and the US had only two entrants in London. At the Trials Eaton won, breaking the world record with a mark of 9,039 points.

In the London event, Eaton and Hardee went into the lead early, with Eaton posting the fastest 100 metres, and Hardee second. They remained 1-2 after the long jump, Eaton again winning that event with a mark that would have placed him seventh in the open long jump. Hardee, bigger and stronger than Eaton, moved up after the shot put, but still trailed Eaton by over 100 points. After the first day, Eaton had a 220 point lead on Hardee, who was 55 points ahead of Canada’s Damian Warner. In sixth place was Cuba’s Leonel Suárez, who was considered a medal favorite and was strong on the second day.

Hardee opened the second day by posting 13.54 in the high hurdles, the second fastest ever in a decathlon, although barely ahead of Eaton’s 13.56. When the two made heights in the pole vault, with Hardee still second, but over 200 points ahead of Germany’s Rico Freimuth, the gold and silver medals were decided. Hardee had some concern in the javelin as he had had surgery in the past year on his throwing arm, but got the spear out to 66.65 and actually moved up closer to Eaton, but far from gold medal pace. Suárez rocketed the jav out to 76.94 and moved into third place. In the 1500 Eaton and Hardee ran safe paces, finishing with gold and silver, as Suárez hung on for the bronze medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	Points	100 metres	Long Jump	Shot Put	High Jump	400 metres	110 metres Hurdles	Discus Throw	Pole Vault	Javelin Throw	1,500 metres
1	3214	Ashton Eaton	USA	8869	–	10.35	8.03	14.66	2.05	46.90	13.56	42.53	5.20	61.96	4:33.59	Gold
2	3220	Trey Hardee	USA	8671	–	10.42	7.53	15.28	1.99	48.11	13.54	48.26	4.80	66.65	4:40.94	Silver
3	1482	Leonel Suárez	CUB	8523	–	11.27	7.52	14.50	2.11	49.04	14.45	45.75	4.70	76.94	4:30.08	Bronze
4	1140	Hans Van Alphen	BEL	8447	–	11.05	7.64	15.48	2.05	49.18	14.89	48.28	4.80	61.69	4:22.50
5	1301	Damian Warner	CAN	8442	–	10.48	7.54	13.73	2.05	48.20	14.38	45.90	4.70	62.77	4:29.85
6	1898	Rico Freimuth	GER	8320	–	10.65	7.21	14.87	1.90	48.06	13.89	49.11	4.90	57.37	4:37.62
7	3132	Oleksiy Kasianov	UKR	8283	–	10.56	7.55	14.45	1.99	48.44	14.09	46.72	4.60	54.87	4:33.68
8	2834	Sergey Sviridov	RUS	8219	–	10.78	7.45	14.42	1.99	48.91	15.42	47.43	4.60	68.42	4:36.63
9	2778	Willem Coertzen	RSA	8173	–	11.09	7.17	13.79	2.05	48.56	14.15	43.58	4.50	64.79	4:26.52
10	1893	Pascal Behrenbruch	GER	8126	–	11.06	7.15	15.67	1.96	50.04	14.33	44.71	4.70	64.80	4:37.46
11	2549	Eelco Sintnicolaas	NED	8034	–	10.85	7.37	14.18	1.93	48.85	14.43	32.26	5.30	58.82	4:31.17
12	2610	Brent Newdick	NZL	7988	–	11.10	7.36	15.09	1.96	50.22	15.02	46.15	4.70	59.82	4:38.20
13	1335	Gonzalo Barroilhet	CHI	7972	–	11.18	6.80	14.49	2.05	51.07	14.12	41.27	5.40	57.25	4:48.23
14	1469	Yordanis García	CUB	7956	–	10.80	6.75	14.48	1.99	48.76	14.24	42.27	4.60	59.85	4:38.57
15	1760	Kévin Mayer	FRA	7952	–	11.32	7.17	14.05	2.05	48.76	15.59	41.20	4.70	62.41	4:23.02
16	2828	Ilya Shkurenyov	RUS	7948	–	11.01	7.25	12.89	2.02	49.81	14.39	43.51	5.10	53.81	4:42.80
17	1164	Eduard Mikhan	BLR	7928	–	10.74	6.94	14.75	1.93	48.42	14.15	44.42	4.40	55.69	4:38.06
18	2268	Dmitry Karpov	KAZ	7926	–	10.91	7.21	16.47	1.99	49.83	14.40	44.93	5.10	49.93	5:16.83
19	1223	Luiz Alberto Araújo	BRA	7849	–	10.70	7.16	13.52	1.93	48.25	14.79	44.76	4.60	51.59	4:38.04
20	2240	Keisuke Ushiro	JPN	7842	–	11.32	6.86	13.59	1.99	50.78	15.47	46.66	4.90	66.38	4:39.33
21	2552	Ingmar Vos	NED	7805	–	10.98	7.27	13.77	1.96	49.62	14.61	42.26	4.50	61.60	4:50.01
22	2387	Edgars Eriņš	LAT	7649	–	10.99	6.98	13.45	1.93	50.62	15.22	45.10	4.50	57.35	4:35.88
23	2411	Jangy Addy	LBR	7586	–	10.89	6.90	14.97	1.93	48.64	14.23	45.61	4.20	50.36	5:08.14
24	2050	Attila Szabó	HUN	7581	–	11.15	6.96	13.93	1.90	50.83	14.92	45.14	4.60	58.84	4:53.81
25	2425	Darius Draudvila	LTU	7557	–	10.95	7.12	15.17	1.96	50.13	14.87	46.43	4.20	50.16	5:03.14
26	3328	Rifat Artikov	UZB	7203	–	11.37	6.41	14.11	1.93	51.91	14.74	43.53	4.40	56.62	5:09.52
DNF	1910	Jan Felix Knobel	GER	–	–	11.42	7.05	15.29	1.90	49.87	15.03	46.10	4.40	–	–
DNF	2004	Kurt Felix	GRN	–	–	11.12	7.63	13.28	2.05	50.17	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	2948	Mihail Dudaš	SRB	–	–	10.90	7.53	13.76	1.96	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1799	Daniel Awde	GBR	–	–	10.71	6.83	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNF	1523	Roman Šebrle	CZE	–	–	11.54	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–