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Full name | Maurice Leon Hugh Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Spanish Town, St. Catherine | September 28, 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 3 July 2013. |
Maurice Smith (born 28 September 1980 in St. Catherine, Jamaica) is a decathlete from Jamaica. He competed for Auburn University. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in 14th place. He broke the Pan American Games decathlon record in 2007, winning his first international gold medal. He won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 2007 World Championships. Smith is the current national record holder in the men's decathlon, with 8644 points.
Smith beat World Champion Roman Šebrle and Dmitriy Karpov at the TNT-Fortuna Combined Events meeting in Kladno, Czech Republic with 8157 points, setting him up well for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[1]
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Maurice Smith Jamaican Decathlete wins FORTUNA Meeting
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Maurice Smith Decathlon, Worlds 2007
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Bryan Clay and Maurice Smith Osaka World Championships 2007
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2010 Auburn University Spring Time OpenThrowing Compilation shot put & Discus
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Maurice Smith Decathlon Shot Put and Discus Spin Technique
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Personal bests
- Decathlon: 8644 pts – Osaka, 1 September 2007
Achievements
References
- ^ Juck, Alfons (2009-06-25). Smith overcomes weather and Šebrle; Dobrynska dominates in Kladno. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-29.
External links
- Maurice Smith at World Athletics
- Maurice Smith at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography