HAPA Bryan Clay won the Olympic decathlon on Friday, capturing gold in the two-day, 10-discipline event with 8,791 points. The half African-American, half Japanese-American was the 2005 world champion and silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics. Here’s the results of the 10 events he participated in:
100m – 10.44 seconds (rank 1)
Long Jump – 7.78 meters (rank 1)
Shot Put – 16.27 meters (rank 2)
High Jump – 1.99 meters(rank 9)
400m – 48.92 seconds(rank 3)
110m Hurdles – 13.93 seconds (rank 1)
Discus Throw – 53.79 meters (rank 1)
Pole Vault – 5.00 meters (rank 2)
Javelin Throw – 70.97 meters (rank 3)
1500m – 5:06.59 (rank 13)
Total Points – 8791
Bryan Clay joins the ranks of Bruce Jenner and Jim Thorpe as Olympic champions in the decathalon that the Americans have won 12 times in 22 Olympics, but only twice since 1976. Bryan is the first American to win gold since Dan O’Brien in 1996. Learn more about Asian Americans at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Bryan Clay gets gold in Men’s Decathlon