Decathlon Targets

Who's the tightest Olympian?

Having been set targets by Olypmpic athletes for the charity decathlon I'm doing next weekend, I thought I'd check the points to see who is being mean and who is being soft:

Here is the list of targets from highest points/event down:

693 pts - Javelin - 57.00m - Goldie Sayers
667 pts - Shot - 13.00m - Kelly Sotherton

524 pts - 110m Hurdles - 18.00s - Andy Turner
504 pts - 1500m - 5:10.00 - Heather Fell

504 pts - 100m - 12.80s - Jodie Williams
504 pts - Discus - 32.00m - Louise Hazel

464 pts - High Jump - 1.60m - Steve Smith

382 pts - Long Jump - 5.00m - Greg Rutherford

348 pts - 400m - 62.00s - Katharine Merry (bless you Katharine!)
309 pts - Pole Vault - 2.80m - Holly Bleasdale (another 'comfy' points target, but still - it's Pole Vault!)

The total of the Olympian individual targets is 4897 points.

4500pts - Decathlon Total - Daley Thompson

So there we have it. Andy Turner, our newest World Championship Bronze medallist was the tightest of the bunch, closely followed by Kelly Sotherton. He changed his mind when he found out how much harder a target he'd set than everyone else! I can forgive Kelly because her picture makes my blog look good and it's a tough but doable one anyway!

Update - Goldie Sayers drops in a tough target for javelin, but it is my strongest event so I'm looking forward to seeing if I can break it!

Katharine Merry and Greg Rutherford are both kind, generous types and late target setter Holy Bleasdale.

Surprisingly, Daley's points total doesn't look too bad - but then again, he knows what's involved in doing ALL of the events in a row...

Here's the original post with the targets and more information. 

http://grahamlay.blogspot.com/2011/08/turning-up-pressure.html