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Maurice Smith (decathlon)

Maurice Smith
Osaka07 D8A Decathlon Maurice Smith.jpg
Smith in 2007 Osaka
Personal information
Full name Maurice Leon Hugh Smith
Born (1980-09-28) September 28, 1980 (age 36)
Spanish Town, St. Catherine
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 90 kg (200 lb)
Sport
Country  Jamaica
Sport Athletics
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.


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