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World Athletics Championships: Ashton Eaton sets new decathlon world record in Beijing –
Ashton Eaton’s world record in the decathlon has stolen the limelight from Mo Farah and Usain Bolt on the penultimate night of the world athletics championships in Beijing. Farah completed the long distance double for a second consecutive occasion at a world titles with victory in the men’s 5,000 metres final, while Usain Bolt captured his third gold in the Bird’s Nest in the last seven days when he anchored Jamaica to a win in the men’s 4x100m relay. But it was Eaton who deserved top billing, after the American dipped under his world mark to post a two-day total of 9,045 points. Eaton, the defending champion, collected 829 points in running four minutes and 17.52 seconds in the final event, the 1,500m, enough to beat his previous record by six points. [ABC]
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Mo Farah completes the ‘triple-double’ with 5,000m at the athletics world championships in Beijing –
Mo Farah is the first athlete to win the 5,000 and 10,000m races at successive world championships. The ‘triple-double’: it is a coinage usually confined to basketball, but in Beijing it belongs to the extraordinary Mo Farah, who for a record third successive global championships has completed twin triumphs over 5,000 and 10,000 metres. None of the distance icons – not Emil Zatopek, not Lasse Viren, not Kenenisa Bekele – managed it, but Farah streaked into history at the Bird’s Nest stadium with another exquisitely controlled perfor­mance over 12½ laps. [Daily Telegraph]

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Decathlon world record progression [As of August 29, 2015 – Wikipedia]

Points	Adjusted points	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place
7,485.61	6,087	Aleksander Klumberg	EST	1922-09-22	Helsinki[1]
7,710.775	6,476	Harold Osborn	USA	1924-07-12	Paris[1]
7,820.93	6,460	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1926-07-18	Viipuri[1]
7,995.19	6,566	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1927-07-17	Helsinki[1]
8,053.29	6,587	Paavo Yrjölä	FIN	1928-08-04	Amsterdam[1]
8,255.475	6,865	Akilles Järvinen	FIN	1930-07-20	Viipuri[1]
8,462.235	6,736	James Bausch	USA	1932-08-06	Los Angeles[1]
8,790.46	7,147	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	GER	1934-07-08	Hamburg[1]
7,900	7,254	Glenn Morris	USA	1936-08-08	Berlin[1]
8,042	7,287	Bob Mathias	USA	1950-06-30	Tulare[1]
7,887	7,592	Bob Mathias	USA	1952-07-26	Helsinki[1]
7,985	7,608	Rafer Johnson	USA	1955-06-11	Kingsburg[1]
8,014	7,653	Vasili Kuznetsov	URS	1958-05-18	Krasnodar[1]
8,302	7,989	Rafer Johnson	USA	1958-07-28	Moscow[1]
8,357	7,839	Vasili Kuznetsov	URS	1959-05-17	Moscow[1]
8,683	7,981	Rafer Johnson	USA	1960-07-09	Eugene[1]
9,121	8,010	Yang Chuan-kwang	ROC	1963-04-28	Walnut[1]
8,230	8,120	Russ Hodge	USA	1966-07-24	Los Angeles[1]
8,319	8,235	Kurt Bendlin	FRG	1967-05-14	Heidelberg[1]
8,417	8,310	Bill Toomey	USA	1969-12-11	Los Angeles[1]
8,454	8,466	Mykola Avilov	URS	1972-09-08	Munich[1]
8,524	8,420	Bruce Jenner[a]	USA	1975-08-10	Eugene[1]
8,538	8,454	Bruce Jenner[a]	USA	1976-06-26	Eugene[1]
8,618	8,634	Bruce Jenner[a]	USA	1976-07-30	Montreal[1]
8,622	8,648	Daley Thompson	GBR	1980-05-15	Götzis[1]
8,649	8,667	Guido Kratschmer	FRG	1980-06-14	Filderstadt-Bernhausen[1]
8,704	8,730	Daley Thompson	GBR	1982-05-23	Götzis[1]
8,723	8,741	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1982-08-15	Ulm[1]
8,743	8,774	Daley Thompson	GBR	1982-09-08	Athens[1]
8,779	8,825	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1983-06-05[3]	Filderstadt-Bernhausen[1]
8,798	8,832	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	1984-05-09	Mannheim[1]
8,798	8,847	Daley Thompson	GBR	1984-08-09	Los Angeles[1]
8,891	8,891	Dan O’Brien	USA	1992-09-05	Talence[1]
8,994	8,994	Tomáš Dvořák	CZE	1999-07-04	Prague[1]
9,026	9,026	Roman Šebrle	CZE	2001-05-27	Götzis[1]
9,039	9,039	Ashton Eaton	USA	2012-06-23	Eugene[4][5]
9,045	9,045	Ashton Eaton	USA	2015-08-29	Beijing

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