With a lot of our Canadian athletes collaborating domestically at Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend and the Servus Calgary Marathon, one of many prime performances of the weekend got here internationally on the Hypo multi-event assembly in Götzis, Austria, leading to victory for a Canadian athlete–however not the one historically related to this meet. 2022 world silver medallist Pierce LePage of Whitby, Ont., gained the boys’s decathlon, with 8,700 factors–only one level shy of his private greatest.
“Perhaps the prince, hold it in Canada”, doesn’t need to be referred to as the king of the Hypomeeting, but.
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It was the tip of a protracted streak for LePage’s teammate, Olympic gold medallist , who has gained this meet the earlier six consecutive years, plus one earlier win.
The primary day’s occasions are the 100m, the lengthy leap, shot put, excessive leap and 400m. On the second day, opponents race the 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500m.
After the 400m (the ultimate occasion of the primary day of competitors), Warner led the sector, however solely by 18 factors. (Warner has continued to wrestle to get wholesome after straining his hamstring throughout the 400m ultimately yr’s world championships on Day 1.) On Day 2 of competitors, which begins with the 110m hurdles, he elevated his lead barely, however LePage did nicely sufficient within the discus (49.34m) to overhaul Warner, and continued his lead with a pole vault leap of 5.00m to Warner’s 4.50m. With solely the javelin and 1,500m remaining, LePage was now forward by 159 factors.
🇨🇦 PIERCE LEPAGE FOR THE WIN
Piece LePage wins the decathlon in Gotzis. It marks the seventh consecutive time it’s been gained by a Canadian.
🇨🇦 Damian Warner, who gained it six straight instances coming into this occasion, locations second. Excellent competitors by two nice opponents.
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Regardless of the javelin historically being certainly one of his weaker occasions, LePage threw straight and much on his final two throws, smashing his PB by virtually 5 metres for a 63.09m. He was now 206 factors forward, which Warner had no likelihood of recouping; within the 1,500m, LePage ran 4:45.74 to safe the general win, with Warner working 4:26.16, which put him in second place, with 8,619 factors. Sander Skotheim of Norway completed third, with 8,590 factors.
Ladies’s heptathlon
2022 world bronze medallist Anna Corridor of the U.S. gained the ladies’s heptathlon, with 6,988 factors, beating out Workforce GB’s with 6,566 factors and Poland’s Adrianna Sulek, with 6,480 factors.
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