Damian Warner ran a huge personal best in the 400m at the Sam Adams meet in Santa Barbara.
He competed in three events on day one of the decathlon, jumping 7.52 in long jump, throwing shot 14.39, and winning the 400m in 46.64! That beats his previous best of 47.04 by almost half a second.
Let me start out by saying that Götzis is the best track meet in the world and that the people of Götzis and the organizing committee are to be congratulated. Everything you hear about Götzis is true!
Damian Warner is the Canadian decathlon record holder. He was the 4th decathlete to break the 9000-point barrier. He won an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games (2021).
Decathlon 2000 has pretty much everything you could want to know about decathlon. Whenever I go to a decathlon, you can be sure that I’ve got a sheaf of Decathlon 2000 athlete profiles printed, tabbed, and highlighted in my notebook - Gabby Pieraccini