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If the streak of Canadian rubric wins at the Hypo Meeting decathlon is going to continue, Damian Warner and Pierce LePage have their enactment chopped retired for them connected Day 2 of the competition. Warner, of London, Ont., sits successful seventh spot portion and LePage, of Whitby, Ont., is successful 11th at the midway constituent of the event in Götzis, Austria.
Puerto Rico's Ayden Owens Delerme leads aft 5 events successful Götzis, Austria
Justin Piercy · CBC Sports
· Posted: May 31, 2025 1:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago
If the streak of Canadian rubric wins at the Hypo Meeting decathlon is going to continue, Damian Warner and Pierce LePage have their enactment chopped retired for them connected Day 2 of the competition.
Warner, of London, Ont., sits successful seventh spot portion and LePage, of Whitby, Ont., is successful 11th at the midway constituent of the event in Götzis, Austria.
Warner is the defending champ and an eight-time Hypo Meeting winner. The 35-year-old compiled a full of 4424 points from 5 events connected Saturday. He sits 228 points backmost of person Ayden Owens Delerme (4652) of Puerto Rico.
LePage, who won the lawsuit successful 2023 but is coming disconnected of off-season backmost surgery, has a full of 4315 points.
The Hypo Meeting is the biggest multi-event competition successful the world, extracurricular of the Olympic Games and satellite championships. It's considered a measuring instrumentality for decathletes arsenic they hole for the world championships aboriginal this summertime successful Tokyo.
Saturday's conscionable kicked disconnected with the 100-metre sprint where Warner had the second-fastest clip retired of each competitors, finishing successful 10.39 seconds. That effect garnered him 1,001 points. LePage was 19th wide successful the 100 with a clip of 10.70, for a full of 929 points successful the opening event.
The adjacent lawsuit was the agelong jump, wherever Warner posted a champion leap of 7.51m for 937 points portion LePage's 7.42m effort got him 915 points.
The 3rd lawsuit was the changeable put, wherever LePage was awarded 806 points for a propulsion of 15.26m. Warner's apical propulsion of 14.41m netted him 753 points.
LePage cleared 2.03m successful the precocious leap to instrumentality 831 points, topping Warner's people of 2.00m and 803 points.
Saturday's last lawsuit was the 400m, where Warner (47.57) bested LePage (49.59) successful their heat. Warned picked up 930 points portion LePage took 834.
The decathlon continues connected Sunday with the last 5 events: 110m hurdles, discus, rod vault, javelin, and 1,500m.
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