World Champion Kevin Mayer sets new world record in Decathlon in France

World champion Kevin Mayer set a new world record in the decathlon with 9,126 point sat the Decastar meet on Sunday at the Decastar event in Talence, France. World champion and Olympic silver medalist Mayer surpassed previous holder American Ashton Eaton’s 9045 points recorded at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.

The Frenchman threw a personal best of 71.90 metres in the javelin in the penultimate



event to leave him with the relatively simple task of needing to finish inside 4 minutes 49 seconds in the 1500 metres to beat the previous record.

The 26-year-old finished it in just outside four minutes 36 seconds, to become just the third decathlete to surpass the mythical 9,000-point barrier. He joined double Olympic champion Eaton and Czech icon Roman Sebrle.