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Bahner's Pan Am Profile |
Event-by-EventTORONTO, Canada -- Wichita State All-American decathlete Austin Bahner finished in eighth place with 7,451 points in the decathlon after the second day of competition at the Pan Am Games in Toronto.
On Day Two, he finished sixth in his 100 meter hurdles heat with a time of 15.74, and 10th in the discus with a throw of 138-11. His highest finish came next in the pole vault with a height of 15-1, which was the fourth-best height on the day.
He was 10th in the javelin with a throw of 179-4 1/4. In the final event of the day, he finished sixth in the 1,500 meter run with a time of 4:43.53.
On day one, Bahner ran a the 100 meters in a time of 10.87 seconds to finish fifth in his heat, and finished fifth in the long jump with a jump of of 23-8 ½. He also finished 12th in the shot with a throw of 40-10 and finished in a tie for ninth in the high jump (6-3/4). Bahner was seventh in the 400 meters with a time of 50.36.
Bahner was an All-American at WSU, finishing 10th in the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and 14th in the heptathlon in the NCAA Indoor Championships. He holds the WSU record for the Decathlon (7,847, 2013) and is second in the Indoor Heptathlon (5,666 points, 2014).
Damian Warner of Canada won the event with 8,659 points.
The Pan American Games are held every four years and precede the Olympic Games by one year.
The Pan American Games consists of all summer Olympic sports, plus select non-Olympic sports, and serves as an Olympic-qualifying event for many of the participating sports. The Pan American Games are the third largest international multi-sport Games in the world, surpassed only by the Olympic Games and the Asian Games in terms of the number of sports and competing athletes. Since the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, the number of sports has doubled in size from 18 to 39. Generally, the Pan American Games program is modeled after the upcoming Olympic Games.
