World Rankings Update -- Multis

Decathlon
1. Michael Schrader, GER, 114
2. Yordani García, CUB, 108
3. Trey Hardee, USA, 99
4. Roman Šebrle, CZE, 98
5. Oleksiy Kasyanov, UKR, 89
6. Pascal Behrenbruch, GER, 75
7. Jake Arnold, USA, 63
8. Mikk Pahapill, EST, 56
9. Leonel Suárez, CUB, 54
10. Norman Müller, GER, 49
Schrader and García both won over the weekend, the German at the big Gotzis competition in Austria and the Cuban at the new Americas Cup in Havana. American Hardee did well to take second in Austria. The big dog, Olympic champ Bryan Clay, hasn’t competed yet.

Heptathlon
1. Hanna Melnychenko, UKR, 147
2. Jessica Ennis, GBR, 126
3. Nataliya Dobrynska, UKR, 123
4. Lyudmila Yosypenko, UKR, 81
5. Yvonne Wisse, NED, 77
6. Lilli Schwarzkopf, GER, 72
7. Jennifer Oeser, GER, 69
8. Julia Machtig, GER, 63
9. Tatyana Chernova, RUS, 45
10. Yuliya Tarasova, UZB, 45
By a quirk of the scoring system, Melnychenko is first. She hasn’t won a heptathlon but took second in two different major competitions. Winners of those were Ennis and Dobrynska.