Ashton Eaton Sets World Record To Win Heptathlon At 2010 NCAA Track & Field Meet
By Himself, Eaton Is Better Than A Lot Of College Track & Field Teams
By LetsRun.com
March 13, 2010
So the US went 1-2 at the World Championships this morning in the heptathlon and the crazy thing is we didn't even send our best guy. Beijing decathlon Olympic champ Bryan Clay move over, Oregon's Ashton Eaton is the man. How can we say that? Because Eaton won the 2010 NCAA meet this afternoon in impressive fashion - with a 6499 world record!!!
If one compares Eaton's marks from Friday and Saturday to that of Bryan Clay and Trey Hardee, who got the gold and silver at Worlds, it's no contest. Eaton's marks are better than Clay's in 5 of the 7 events, as shown by the following table:
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Let us try to put Eaton's mark's in perspective for you. The world champion, Bryan Clay, averaged 886.29 points per event. Eaton averaged 928.43 and scored more than 900 points in 6 of the 7 events and more than 940 in five of the seven. In the hypothetical matchup between Clay and Eaton, Clay loses to Eaton by 295 points, meaning that Clay would have been closer to the 6th placer at Worlds (Oleksiy Kasyanov at 6019) than he would have been to Eaton.
Individually, Eaton would be an All-American in two events at NCAAs (maybe three if you count the 4 x 400), as he'd be in tonight's hurdle final and he'd have scored in the long jump.
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Eaton by himself is way better than many college track and field teams in their entirety. For example, if Eaton was a track team all by himself, he would be third in our favorite conference - the Heps (aka the Ivy League).
For those of you who don't understand metric measurements, we'll give you his marks in feet and inches and tell you how they'd have scored in the 2010 Heps indoor meet.
60m: 6.71 (1st place - meet record - current record 6.73)
LJ: 25-4 ½ (1st place - misses meet record by less than two inches)
SP: 43-0 ½ (does not score, actually last place, but he'd opt out of this as an individual event anyway)
HJ: 6-11 (2nd)
60mh: 7.77 (1st - meet record - current record 7.90)
PV: 16-8¾ (1st on misses)
1,000: 2:32.67 (doesn't make final, but he'd surely opt out of this individual event)
Hepathlon: 6499 (1st, obviously - Eaton could win the Heptathlon even if he only did 6 events of his competitors' choosing).
Final Team Scores:
Princeton 181
Cornell 148
Ashton Eaton 58
Dartmouth 55
Harvard 53
Columbia 52
Brown 38
Penn 33
Yale 28
We hope no Ivy League ADs are reading this and looking for a way to save money. Cut all the athletes and coaches and bring in Mr. Eaton.
More on Eaton: *Eaton Impresses Dan O'Brien By Breaking His World Record
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*Results: Ashton Eaton's Performances
60m: 6.71 (13th, NCAAs)
Long Jump: 25'4.5" (NCAA All-American)
Shot Put: 43'
High Jump: 6'11"
60mHH 7.77 (NCAA All-American)
Pole Vault 16'8.75"
1000m: 2:32
Total: 6499 breaks Dan O'Brien's World Record of 6476
2010 World Indoor Results
1st - 2008 Olympic Decathlon Champion Bryan Clay 6204
2nd - 2009 World Decathlon Champion Trey Hardee 6184
Early Press Coverage: Oh Wow! Ashton Eaton Gets World Record!
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