London’s Damian Warner has successfully defended his decathlon gold medal at the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru.
The 29-year-old Londoner retained his crown in dominant fashion Wednesday, finishing with 8,513 points.
Warner led the competition from start to finish, pulling ahead in the opening event with a 10.32-second 100-metre dash. He topped the field in three of the 10 competitions, also finishing first in long jump and 110-metre hurdles.
The win solidifies Warner as one of the world’s top decathletes.
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It also makes him the first male athlete to win back-to-back decathlons at the Pan Am Games. He recorded 8,659 points when he won gold at the 2015 games in Toronto.
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The gold follows another successful event in May, where Warner topped the field at the Gotzis Hypo-Meeting.
Warner switched coaches this season, leaving Calgary and longtime multi-events coach Les Gramantik to move back to his hometown of London to train with his high school coach Gar Leyshon.
Warner has a bit of a break before the world championships in Doha, Qatar in October, and then it’s on to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
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