Trey Hardee - second place in Götzis

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Trey Hardee - second place in Götzis

Unread postby Pogo Stick » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:43 am

For those who don't know, meeting in Götzis is major event for decathlon and heptathlon. It is a kind of annual world championship and Olympic Games together for Combined Events. It is their equivalent of Zurich meeting for T&F or Wimbledon for tennis players (Canadians - think Stanley Cup final). Dedicated multi-events meetings are rare and Götzis with his 35-year tradition is the best. Previous winners in Götzis were the most known athletes - Olympics and World Champions and world record holders. All that in pittoresque little town in Austria with population of 10,000.

Link: http://www.iaaf.org/WCE09/news/newsid=50820.html

Schrader and Dobrynska the winners in Gotzis – IAAF World Combined Events Challenge
Gotzis, Austria – Germany’s Michael Schrader sensationally won the 35th edition of the Hypo Meeting in Götzis with a new world seasonal best of 8522 points beating American Trey Hardee by just six points. Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine won the Heptathlon with 6558 points, the second best performance in the world this year.

Pascal Berenbruch completed a great day for Germany in third place with a new PB of 8374. World record holder and World champion Roman Sebrle from Czech Republic finished fourth with 8348 points beating overnight leader Oleksiy Kasyanov, fifth with 8266, a new career best. New lifetime bests were set by German Norman Müller (8272) and Nicklas Wiberg from Sweden (8213 points).

Behind Dobrynska, Ukraine claimed a podium sweep with Italian-based Hanna Melnychenko second with 6445, a new PB, and Lyudmila Yosypenko third with 6361, also a new career best. Then the top-three German heptathletes followed in the ranking: Lilli Schwarzkopf, fourth with 6337, and Julia Mächtig, fifth with a PB 6320. Jennifer Oeser also scored 6320 but finished sixth on countback because Mächtig produced better results in four out of seven events. Olympic bronze Tatyana Chernova was seventh with 6243 points.

Breakthrough for Schrader - Decathlon

The overall ranking did not undergo any major changes after the 110m Hurdles. Ukrainian overnight leader Olksiy Kasyanov defended his lead with 5388 points with a gap of 37 points over American Trey Hardee (5351).

Hardee finished third in the hurdles in 14.11 behind Jamaican Maurice Smith (14.01), who decided to continue despite his three fouls in the Long Jump, and Germany’s Behrenbruch, who set a new PB clocking 14.02. Schrader ran the fifth fastest time on the day with a PB of 14.21 stay in third (5289).

Hardee slightly reduced his gap on Kasyanov to 34 points (6154 to 6120) after throwing 45.11m in the discus. Schrader threw 43.89m to stay in third (6017). The major changes came behind him, in third and fourth. Sebrle threw 46.71m and moved up from sixth into fourth with 5991 ahead of Behrenbruch who won the discus with 48.86m ahead of Smith (48.64m) and climbed into fifth place with 5972.

The Pole Vault produced a major change in the overall ranking. Hardee vaulted 5.10m (941 points) finishing second behind winner Eelco Sinticolaas (5.20m) and took the lead with 7061 points. Kasyanov vaulted in the B group in his weak event and cleared 4.50m and was overtaken by Schrader who, thanks to his 5.00m vault, clinched second place with 6927 points, 134 points behind Hardee. Sebrle (fourth with 6871) and Behrenbruch (fifth with 6791).

Hardee improved his javelin PB to 63.98m (798 points) and kept a margin of 133 points over Schrader who speared the javelin to 64.04m (7859 to 7726). Sebrle produced a best throw of 67.54m to move to third with 7723 points, just three points behind Schrader. Behrenbruch won the javelin with a very solid 70.24m and moved up by one place into fourth place with 7684. Kasyanov did not throw further than 50.55m and was overtaken by German Norman Müller, fading back into sixth with 7511 points

It became a dramatic battle to the wire into the final event. Hardee, who has a PB of 4:44 in the 1500m, had to defend his lead from the attack of Schrader who boasts a good, by Decathlon standards, 4:19 PB. Schrader followed closely on the heels of front-runner Wiberg who took the event in 4:20.16. Schrader crossed the finish line in second place in 4:22.26. Hardee finished well back in 14th place in 4:43.92 and lost to Schrader by just six points.

Schrader scored 8522 points, a new world seasonal best and a new PB. It was a sensational improvement for the 21-year-old, who entered the Götzis meeting with a 8248 PB. Schrader now becomes one of the best medal hopes for host team Germany at this summer’s IAAF World Championships in Berlin where he could follow in the footsteps of his coach Torsten Voss, the Decathlon World champion in Rome in 1987. Schrader became the first German to win in Götzis since Christian Schenk’s 1990 victory.

“I did not think about winning in Götzis,” said Schrader, who added that his pre-meet goal was 8400. “It is overwhelming to win in Götzis. I cannot describe my feeling. Yesterday I felt cramps during the 400 metres. Fortunately I felt well today without pain. I performed well apart from the high jump and the 400 metres.”
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