Canada’s Warner poised for third Gotzis title in his decathlon season debut
A Canadian record and a hat trick are on the line when Damian Warner makes his season decathlon debut this weekend.
The 27-year-old from London, Ont., is the favourite to capture a third Hypo Meeting title in Gotzis, Austria, and his coach Les Gramantik believes Warner’s national record could fall in the process.
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” Gramantik said. “But that doesn’t mean that he will. I think the components are there. But it’s a funny game — you have a slip here, slip there … ultimately the biggest challenge is to win, not just to score.”
Warner won the prestigious Hypo Meeting, which brings together the world’s top decathletes and heptathletes, in both 2013 and last year.