Trey Hardee

Hardee at the U.S. Trials 2008

James Edward " Trey " Hardee III ( born February 7, 1984 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American decathlete and world champion in 2009 and 2011. At a height of 1.96 m his competition weight is 96 kg.

Career

Trey Hardee was born in 1984 in Birmingham, where he also grew up. He originally wanted to be a basketball player, but was taken in his junior year in high school in Vestavia Hills from the school team. Thereupon Hardee turned to athletics. He started with the pole vault and took once a year at the National Championships in the decathlon in part, at first due to the non-school days. After his high school graduation 2002, Hardee enrolled at Mississippi State University. There he joined the pole vault for the decathlon.

2003 Hardee occupied at the college Indoor Championships SEC a seventh place in the pole vault and with 7544 points Third place in the decathlon. In the same year he was at the College NCAA Championships with 7468 points in fifth place. In the following years it was possible to continuously improve Hardee in the decathlon. In 2004 he occupied at the NCAA Championships with 8041 points Second place, won with 7480 points, the SEC Championships with 7218 points, the NACAC Championships under 23 years of age.

After setting the athletics program at Mississippi State University 2004 Hardee moved to the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005 he won the first time with 7881 points, the NCAA Championships. At the Texas Relays in the same year he also won the decathlon ( 7839 points) and took prize-winning places at the Indoor Championships in Houston ( silver ) and the NCAA heptathlon (bronze). In 2006, Hardee again at the NCAA Championships after seven in ten disciplines, before he could reach a valid attempt in the pole vault and dropped back to ninth place in the victory of Jake Arnold. In the same year Hardee succeeded at the Texas Relays to beat the first time the 8000 -point mark. With 8465 points, he set a new championship record and was at the end of the year in the United States fifth best decathlete.

After Hardee 2007 had no decathlon denied, he finished in the U.S. qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics second place. At the same time meant that reached 8534 points, a new personal best for the Americans, and at the end of the fifth- best performance in the world. At the Olympic decathlon in Beijing Hardee was meanwhile on a fourth before retiring in his best discipline pole vault without a valid attempt. In the same year he won for the third time with 8371 points, the Texas Relays.

End of June 2009 Hardee won with 8261 points, the U.S. champion title in the decathlon before Ashton Eaton and Jake Arnold, where he benefited from a breach of the Olympic champion Bryan Clay. In the same year the Americans led at the traditional Mösle Mehrkampf meeting in the Austrian Götzis by nine out of ten disciplines the favorites field with 133 points to before he was even referred surprisingly in the final 1500 - meter race of the German Michael Schrader in second place.

At the World Championships in Berlin Hardee benefited from the injury-related cancellation Schrader and dropped 10.45 s the best time in the 100 -meter run before, improved his personal best in the long jump at 7.83 meters and the shot put by nearly one meter to 15, 33 m. He lost the lead after the first three contests in the high jump, but took it back after the sixth discipline, the 110- meter hurdles, where he 's reached the day's best time of 13.86. With a new personal record in the javelin Hardee won the world title in front of the Cubans Leonel Suárez and Alexander Pogorelov of Russia. The achieved 8790 points meant a new personal best and improve the Weltjahresbestleistung Suárez ( 8654 points). At the same Hardee was with this result, the third-best decathlete in the U.S. track and field history behind Dan O'Brien and Bryan Clay. This success brought him months later, the Jim Thorpe All-Around Award from the United States Sports Academy in.

At the World Indoor Championships 2010 in Doha, Hardee had the resurgent Bryan Clay defeated and won with the seasonal best of 6184 points, the silver medal, just 20 points behind his teammate. 2011 Hardee could first decide the all-around meeting in Götzis for himself and won with 8689 points before the Cubans Suárez and the Estonian Mikk Pahapill. In the same year he was at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea defend against his compatriot Ashton Eaton ( 8505 points) and Leonel Suárez ( 8501 ) his decathlon title with 8607 points. In the following 2012 Olympic Games in London, he had, as expected, defeated his teammate and new world record holder Ashton Eaton and won with 8671 points, the silver medal. At the World Championships in Moscow, he retired due to injury from after the high jump, after he had failed at its initial height of 1.90 m.

Trey Hardee lives in Austin, Texas. He is coached by Mario Sategna.

Personal best

Under outdoor conditions established bests Trey Hardee in the decathlon individual disciplines:

(Updated: August 9, 2012)