2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon


The Men's decathlon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 27 and 28.
Ashton Eaton started off strongly, taking a 22 point advantage in the 100m over American teammate Trey Hardee, then adding three more points in the long jump. Oleksiy Kasyanov placed himself in third. Defending champion Hardee pulled back that advantage to take a 6-point lead after the shot put. Aleksey Drozdov blew past the field with a 2.14 high jump, but cumulatively it was only a short lived 2-point lead. And the faster Eaton took the 400m and a 53-point lead over Hardee at the end of Day 1.
The second day was more of the same, Eaton's speed over the 110 hurdles extended his lead to 69 points over Hardee, but considering how much faster Eaton normally is vs Hardee, he didn't extend the lead enough. Kasyanov was the best of the rest now almost 170 points behind the leaders. The discus was the reversal of fortunes. Hardee threw over 3 and a half metres further and took an 8-point lead. In the pole vault, Eaton's 4.60 was the poorest of the top 16, losing 20 cm to Hardee, while Leonel Suárez vaulted 5.00 to slide into third, barely ahead of Drozdov. In the javelin, Eaton only managed a 55.16, while Hardee went 68.99 and Suárez bettered that with 69.12 to move into second place by 32 points. With a 244-point lead, Hardee was not going to be caught from behind. It was predictable that Suárez needed to finish within 4.8 seconds of Eaton to hold on to silver. With Suárez' personal best in the 1500m at around 4:16, and Eaton's best around 4:20, it looked like a foregone conclusion. But Eaton went out aggressively, taking the lead on the final lap and powering close to a 65 second last lap to get a personal best 4:18.94. Eaton beat Suárez by 5.22 seconds to edge 4 points ahead and take the silver medal.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

100 metres

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s
RankHeatAthleteNationalityResultPointsNotes
11Ashton Eaton10.46985
21Trey Hardee10.55963
31Damian Warner10.56961
41Luiz Alberto de Araújo10.71926SB
51Oleksiy Kasyanov10.75917SB
62Eelco Sintnicolaas10.76915SB
71Mihail Dudaš10.81903
82Ingmar Vos10.82901SB
91Rico Freimuth10.83899
102Yordanis García10.85894SB
102Andres Raja10.85894SB
124Larbi Bouraada10.88888SB
132Darius Draudvila10.90883
142Jamie Adjetey-Nelson10.97867
152Maurice Smith10.98865
163Brent Newdick11.00861
173Leonel Suárez11.07845
183Pascal Behrenbruch11.08843
193Kim Kun-Woo11.11836SB
203Willem Coertzen11.16825
214Jan Felix Knobel11.18821
224Hadi Sepehrzad11.19819SB
233Romain Barras11.20817
234Thomas van der Plaetsen11.20817PB
253Dmitriy Karpov11.24808
264Roman Šebrle11.25806
273Mikk Pahapill11.28799
284Ryan Harlan11.29797
294Aleksey Drozdov11.34786
304Keisuke Ushiro11.42769

Long jump

Shot put

High jump

400 metres

110 metres hurdles

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.8 m/s, Heat 2: -0.7 m/s, Heat 3: -0.5 m/s, Heat 4: -0.1 m/s
RankHeatAthleteNationalityResultPointsNotesOverall
11Ashton Eaton13.859945440
21Trey Hardee13.979785371
31Andres Raja14.049695126
41Damian Warner14.199505123
52Luiz Alberto de Araújo14.25942SB4997
62Leonel Suárez14.29937SB5139
73Pascal Behrenbruch14.33932SB4953
82Romain Barras14.379274989
92Eelco Sintnicolaas14.429215087
102Willem Coertzen14.489135012
113Mikk Pahapill14.54906SB4929
123Larbi Bouraada14.56903PB5088
133Dmitriy Karpov14.64894SB4779
142Oleksiy Kasyanov14.658925202
151Maurice Smith14.688894923
161Yordanis García14.708864929
173Ryan Harlan14.718854869
184Roman Šebrle14.75880SB4985
193Thomas van der Plaetsen14.798755155
203Brent Newdick14.868674913
214Mihail Dudaš14.89863SB5137
224Jan Felix Knobel14.928595028
232Darius Draudvila14.938584934
244Kim Kun-Woo14.95856SB4845
254Hadi Sepehrzad14.958564724
264Keisuke Ushiro15.208254654
274Aleksey Drozdov15.497915048

Discus throw

Pole vault

Javelin throw

1500 metres

Final standings