Šebrle finishes 5th in heptathlon at indoor world championship

Czech athlete Roman Šebrle finished 5th in heptathlon at the world indoor athletic championships in Doha on Saturday. The 36-year-old former Olympic and world champion was slower in both sprints, but showed good performance in shot put, high jump and pole vault. In the last event, 1,000 m, he managed to hold off Ukraine’s Oleksiy Kasyanov who got within five points of the Czech. Šebrle, who is the current decathlon world record holder, said he did not expected much more, given his recent injury. Brian Clay, from the United States, defended the title and took gold.