A torrential storm which halted the competition for over an hour after three events was not the only upset on this first day of the Decastar Meeting.
After the first day of competition, with five events completed for the men once competition resumed and four events for the women, American Tom Pappas was heading the decathlon, with 4467 points, ahead of Czech Republic's Roman Sebrle with 4388 points and Jon-Arnar Magnusson (ISL) with 4297 points.
In the heptahlon, competiton favourite, Shelia Burrell, was trailing in fourth position with 3484 points, as Austra Skujyte (LTU) led the field with 3619 points ahead of Larisa Netseporuk (EST) with 3532 points and Great Britain's Kelly Sotherton with 3527.
The day is far from lost for Sebrle as he has some of his strongest events in the programme tomorrow and is currently 118 points behind his mid-competition score of Goetzis, which ended with a season leading 8800 point total for the Czech.
Burrell meanwhile is nearly 200 points off her Goetzis score, where she totalised 3718 points after four events.
Burrell will need to produce some seriously good results tomorrow if she is to better Sabine Braun's position at the head of the World Combined Events Challenge, with 6326 points needed here to better the German's three competiton total of 18987.
Shelia Burrell currently has 12662 points from her two competitions this year.
