International Championships
2012 World Indoor gold medalist (6,645WR)
2011 World Outdoor silver medalist (8,505)
USA Championships
2012 USA Indoor long jump champion (8.06m/26-5.5)
2011 USA Outdoor champion (8,729)
2009 USA Outdoor runner-up (8,075)
5th at 2008 Olympic Trials (8,122)
Collegiate Championships
Heptathlon world record holder (6,645)
Three-time NCAA decathlon champion - 2008 (8,055); 2009 (8,241); 2010 (8,457)
Two-time NCAA heptathlon champion – 2009 (6,499); 2010 (6,499)
Three-time Pac-10 champion - 2008 (7,604); 2009 (8,091); 2010 (8,154)
Awards and Honors
2010 Bowerman Award winner
2010 USTFCCCA Outdoor and Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
World indoor heptathlon record holder (6,645)
About Ashton
Eaton is the youngest of Team USA’s talented trio of decathletes. Since 2008, he has improved his PR by 598 points, including a 263-point improvement in 2011, his first season as a professional. When Ashton Eaton broke Dan O' Brien's heptathlon mark in 2010, he broke a record set when he was just five years old. He has since broken his own world record two more times. Eaton qualified for his first World Outdoor Championships team in 2009 where he placed 18th. With quick, explosive events and just one throwing event, he indicated the heptathlon he is best suited for, which he owns the world record in. At the 2008 Pac-10 Outdoor Championships, Easton scored points for the Oregon Ducks in a total of five different events (decathlon, 200m, long jump, 4x100m and 4x400m). One of only four Ducks to ever break 8,000 points in the decathlon, as a prep star in Mountain View, Ore., he won 2006 Oregon 4A state titles as a senior in 400 meters (48.69) and long jump (24-0 1/4w), and was runner-up in the 200 meters (22.10) to land athlete of the meet honors. Also lettered in football as a running back and wrestled. His grandfather, James Eaton, was a Michigan State halfback. Engaged to Oregon heptathlete and Canadian Olympic hopeful Brianne Theisen.
Results
2012: World Indoor gold medalist (6,645WR); USA Indoor long jump champion (8.06m/26-5.5); 1st at Texas A&M Challenge indoor 60m hurdles (7.73), 400m (47.97) and long jump (8.04m/26-4.5)
2011: World Outdoor silver medalist (8,505); USA Outdoor champion (8,729); 1st at Tallinn, Estonia heptathlon (6,568 points); Won the Millrose Multi Challenge over Bryan Clay and Trey Hardee with 2,666 points in the shot put, high jump and 60m hurdles
2010: NCAA Outdoor decathlon (8,457) and 4x100m champion (40.57)1st at Texas Relays (8,310w); PAC-10 Outdoor decathlon (8,154), 110m hurdles champion (13.54) and long jump champion (7.81m/25-7.5); NCAA Indoor 4x400m champion (3:08.42); NCAA Indoor heptathlon (6,499) and long jump champion (7.73m/25-4.5); 1st at College Station Texas A&M Challenge heptathlon (6,256); 1st at Oregon Relays 110m hurdles (13.68)
2009: 18th at World Outdoors (8,061); USA Outdoor runner-up (8,075); PAC-10 Outdoor champion (8,091); Oregon Relays champion (8,023); NCAA Outdoor champion (8,241); NCAA Indoor champion (5,988); Seattle UW Invitational heptathlon champion (6,174)
2008: NCAA Outdoor champion (8,055); PAC-10 Outdoor champion (7,604); Sacramento Nike Elite Invitational champion (7,792); 6th at NCAA Indoor Heptathlon (5,676 points); 5th at Olympic Trials (8,122)
2007: 3rd at USA Junior Champs (7,155); 2nd at Pac 10 Champs (7,123); 2nd at USA Juniors LJ (7.32m/24-0.25); 11th at Pan Am Juniors
USA/World Rankings and Personal Bests
2011: Indoor bests - heptathlon, 6,568 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - decathlon, 8,720 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2010: Indoor bests - heptathlon, 6,499 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests - decathlon, 8,457 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 2 in the world)
2009: Indoor bests - heptathlon, 5,988 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 6 in the world); Outdoor bests - decathlon, 8,091 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 23 in the world)
2008: Indoor bests - heptathlon, 5,676 (No. 12 in the USA, No. 41 in the world); Outdoor bests - decathlon, 8,122 (No. 7 in the USA, No. 25 in the world)