Overview

• Warner failed to clear 4.60 meters in the pole vault, dropping him from second to seventeenth place.
• Norwegian Markus Rooth won the decathlon with 8,796 points, his career's biggest victory.
• Germany's Leo Neugebauer and Grenada's Lindon Victor secured silver and bronze, respectively.
• Warner was aiming to join the elite group of two-time Olympic decathlon champions.
• Sander Skotheim, also in medal contention, failed his pole vault attempts and dropped out of the race.