Adam Sebastian Helcelet started the second day of the Olympic decathlon with the sixth time in the 110-meter hurdles and improved by two places to 15th place in the standings. With a performance of 14.35 seconds, he won the second of three runs. Jiří Sýkora finished third in his high of 14.48 this year, jumped one place and is eighteenth.
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Adam Sebastian Helcelet after finishing the first discipline of a busy day on 110 meters of obstacles.
Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
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The leading position was strengthened by the Canadian Damian Warner, who scored his third partial victory and with a time of 13.46 improved the Olympic record of the German Frank Busemann from Atlanta in one hundredth. 13.90.
After six disciplines, Warner has 5,767 points and has doubled his lead to 162 points, which is good for second Australian Ashley Moloney. The third is another Canadian Pierce LePage with a gap of 313 points. Mayer moved up to fourth place, currently 127 points apart from the podium.
| XXXII. Tokyo Summer Olympics: |
| Athletics: |
| Final: |
| Men: |
| Decathlon – after six disciplines: |
| 1. Warner (CAN) 5767 points (100 m: 10.12 – distance: 824 – ball: 14.80 – height: 202 – 400 m: 47.48 – 110 m front: 13.46), |
| 2. Moloney (Austr.) 5605 (10,34 – 764 – 14,49 – 211 – 46,29 – 14,08), |
| 3. LePage (Kan.) 5454 (10,43 – 765 – 15,31 – 199 – 46,92 – 14,39), |
| 4. Mayer (Fr.) 5327, |
| 5. Scantling 5309, |
| 6. Bastien (oba USA) 5290, |
| 7. Ureňa (Šp.) 5268, |
| 8. Ziemek (USA) 5232, |
| …15. Helcelet 5027 (11,06 – 716 – 14,99 – 196 – 49,41 – 14,35), |
| 18. Titmouse (both CR) 4902 (11.18 – 703 – 14.63 – 190 – 48.89 – 14.48). |
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