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News06 Mar 2004


Men Heptathlon 60m

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Brian Clay arrived in Budapest for the 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships relatively unheralded. Yet the American certainly made his seven rivals in the men’s heptathlon take notice as he raced to a 6.65sec 60-metre finish, a magnificent performance that would have put the American close to qualifying for the final of the previous night’s 60m.

After two false starts, the heptathletes were understandably edgy. But Clay flew from his blocks, leaving his better known rivals, including decathlon world record-holder Roman Sebrle, at least a metre behind before halfway.

Clay’s two-day effort thus got off to a 1010-point start, a substantial advantage over Russia’s Lev Lobodin, whose 6.90sec runners-up effort scored 918pts.

Erki Nool, Estonia’s Olympic decathlon champion, scored 897, four points more than Sebrle, as they clocked 6.96 and 6.97sec respectively.

Back in seventh place, Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Karpov, decathlon bronze medallist in Paris last summer, recorded a personal best 7.04sec for 868pts.

The heptathletes move on to the long jump, which is due to begin at 10.40am local time.

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