Eaton on course for new world record

The world’s greatest all-around athlete Ashton Eaton is on course to successfully defend his heptathlon world crown and break his own world record at the same time, at the World Indoors in Sopot.

The ace American - who won the 60m at the Athlone IT Indoor Grand Prix in the run-up to these Championships - cleared 5.20 in the pole vault, the penultimate event at the Ergo Arena, to leave him nine points inside the world record he set in winning gold at Istanbul 2012.