Eaton Sets WR; U.S. Has Best Day Ever in Heptathlon

Olympic and World decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay won the World Indoor Heptathlon championship in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, beating out teammate Trey Harding, but the two were far behind another American competing in Fayetteville at the NCAA championships.

Oregon's Ashton Eaton not only won the NCAA title, he set a a world record with 6499 points, 23 points better than the record Dan O'Brien set 17 years ago. In fact, so astonishing was Eaton's performance, that had Clay and Hardee teamed up and taken the best score from either one in each event, they still would have lost to Eaton by 213 points.

For good measure, Eaton ran a leg on the Oregon 4x400 relay later in the meet.

Here's how the scores compared between the three Americans:

             60M   LJ     SP      HJ     60HH   PV     1000M    Total

Ashton Eaton  6.71  7.73m  13.12m  2.11m  7.77   5.10   2:32.67     
             988   992    675     906    1040   941    957      6499
   
Bryan Clay    6.67  7.27m  15.31m  2.06m  8.00   5.00m  2:50.28          
             1003  878    809     859    982    910    763      6204

Trey Hardee   6.80  7.28m  14.44m  2.06m  7.79   5.00m  2.47.76          
             955   881    755     859    1035   910    789      6184