Canada's Damian Warner falls short of Hypo Meeting decathlon title repeat, placing 6th

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· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 1:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 1

It was an uncharacteristic Hypo Meeting show successful the decathlon by eight-time defending champion Damian Warner, and unfortunate extremity to the play for Canadian teammate Pierce LePage, who won successful 2023.

Warner, who won past twelvemonth and was eyeing a record-extending ninth rubric astatine the 50th variation of the event, finished sixth with 8,527 points successful Götzis, Austria.

He amassed 8,678 a twelvemonth agone crossed 10 events astatine Mösle Stadium.

LePage, who didn't vie successful Götzis successful 2024 and astatine the Paris Olympics past summertime with a backmost injury, exited Sunday's contention erstwhile helium fell aft hitting a hurdle knocked down by Switzerland's Simon Ehammer.

Sander Skotheim won the two-day event, mounting a Norwegian grounds with a world-leading 8,909 points, 283 much than runner-up Kyle Garland (8,626) of the United States. Ehammer was 3rd with 8,575 points, a nationalist mark.

Warner moved up 1 spot aft helium was 5th done Saturday's 5 events, compiling 4,424 points from the 100 metres, agelong jump, changeable put, precocious leap and 400.

The 35-year-old from London, Ont., sat 5th entering Sunday's 1,500 — the weekend's last lawsuit — 7,837 points, 287 behind Skotheim.

Warner covered the 1,500 successful 4 minutes 38.44 seconds, good disconnected his 4:24.73 idiosyncratic best.

He opened Sunday successful the 110m hurdles, placing 2nd to Ehammer (13.57 seconds) with a season-best 13.76 successful the 5th and last group. Warner holds the world-leading and conscionable grounds of 13.36.

Triple-faulted successful Olympic rod vault

The four-time satellite title medallist threw 47.34m successful his archetypal of 3 tries successful discus for seventh earlier finishing 10th of 12 with a 4.70m effort successful rod vault. He missed each 3 attempts astatine 4.80.

Warner was 4th successful Group A javelin, throwing 62.30m connected his archetypal try.

He had his "worst nightmare travel true" astatine past summer's Olympic Games successful Paris, wherever helium triple-faulted successful the rod vault.

LePage, who had country past August for a herniated disc, was 11th astatine the halfway mark, taking 4,315 points into Sunday's last 5 events. The 29-year-old from Whitby, Ont., bowed retired of the contention aft placing ninth of 15 successful discus with a propulsion of 47.15.

After falling successful the hurdles, helium was allowed a re-run and posted a clip of 14.59 seconds. LePage ran 13.77 successful the 2023 satellite decathlon successful Budapest, Hungary.

That was the astir palmy play of his vocation erstwhile helium became the archetypal Canadian to triumph a satellite rubric successful decathlon. 

Also successful 2023, LePage halted Warner's streak of 7 consecutive Hypo Meeting titles for his archetypal triumph successful planetary competition.

The Hypo Meeting is the biggest multi-event competition successful the world, extracurricular of the Olympics and satellite championships. It's considered a measuring instrumentality for decathletes arsenic they hole for the Sept. 13-21 World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo.