Damian Warner shattered his Canadian decathlon record in winning his fourth Hypo Meeting title on Sunday, helping erase the disappointment of a roller-coaster year. Canada’s Damian Warner, who had disappointing results at both the Commonwealth Games and the 2017 world championships, winning his fourth Hypo Meeting title in Gotzis, Austria, on Sunday. Warner’s record and victory comes fewer than two months after he dropped out of the decathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Warner needed to run just four minutes 42 seconds in the 1,500 to break his Canadian record, and left nothing to chance running 4:26.59. Warner’s Canadian record at the Beijing world championships came a month after he won gold at the Pan American Games in Toronto, breaking Michael Smith’s Canadian decathlon record that had stood for 19 years.

Source: thestar May 27, 2018 20:37 UTC