World’s Best Decathlete, Bryan Clay, is a Castle Grad
Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980) is an American decathlete. He is the reigning Olympic champion and was also a World in 2005.
Clay was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Hawaii. He is Afro-Asian. His mother, Michele Ishimoto, was a Japanese immigrant to America. His father, Greg Clay, was African-American. His parents divorced when he was in elementary school and he was raised primarily by his mother.
Clay has a younger brother, Nikolas, who was also a standout athlete on the Azusa Pacific University track team.
He graduated from James B. Castle High School (Kaneohe, Hawaii) in 1998.
From DOHA, Qatar -Olympic champion Bryan Clay led Trey Hardee in the heptathlon competition at the world indoor championships Saturday with only the 1,000-meter race left.
Clay matched Hardee in the pole vault with jumps of 5 meters for a 46-point lead. Aleksey Drozdov of Russia was third.
In the women’s pentathlon, Jessica Ennis of Britain was in the lead after three events. The outdoor world champion won the 60-meter hurdles and the high jump before Olympic champion Natallia Dobrynska of Ukraine won the shot put.
Ennis led with 3,021 points, 18 more than the Ukrainian.
Top 20 Male Performances at World Track & Field Championships
All-athletics.com has ranked the top 20 male performaces at the IAAF World Championship Track & Field Meet from Berlin.
Usain Bolt | 100m |
Usain Bolt | 200m |
Jamaica | 4x100m |
Tyson Gay | 100m |
Ezekiel Kemboi | 3000mSC |
Kenenisa Bekele | 10000m |
Abel Kirui | Marathon |
Christian Cantwell | Shot Put |
Lashawn Merritt | 400m |
Dwight Phillips | Long Jump |
Phillips Idowu | Triple Jump |
Sergey Kirdyapkin | 50km Walk |
Trey Hardee | Decathlon |
Robert Harting | Discus |
Kerron Clement | 400m Hurdles |
Steven Hooker | Pole Vault |
Ryan Braithwaite | 110m Hurdles |
Valeriy Borchin | 20km Walk |
Trinidad and Tobago | 4x100m |
Alonso Edwards | 200m |
Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | 3000mSC |
USA | 4x400m |