It's been a long and productive season for Oregon decathlete Dakotah Keys.

ATHLETICS: Birchfield decathlete Ed Dunford made a surprise bid for a place in the British team taking part at next summer's Beijing Olympics by winning the UK Challenge Combined Events Final at Stoke-on-Trent with 7,734 points.

The injury-jinxed 28-year-old decathlete picked up a groin problem before flying out to Gothenburg.

LERWICK decathlete Ben Kerr has become the first Shetland athlete to be selected for the Highland Institute of Sport.

DECATHLETE Dean Macey picked up where he left off last night by setting a personal best in the discus.

Edward Dunford, the 18-yearold decathlete, won the 110 m hurdles in 14.36 and was runnerup in the pole vault with 4.05 m.

Among those expected to compete are long jumpers Henry Dagmil and Marestella Torres, runners Archand Christian Bagsit, Isidro Del Prado Jr., Edgardo Alejan Jr., and Julius Nierras, hurdler Eric Cray, Christopher Ulboc (steeplechase) and decathlete Jesson Ramil Cid.

Whenever he competes in an open event, he said he sheds the decathlete label.

He has been repeatedly hit by injuries at major championships and the Canvey Island decathlete began to fear he would never land the gold medal he craved.

Thursday September 9 Decathlete Daley Thompson strikes gold in Athens, becoming the first man to hold the Olympic, Commonwealth and European titles and the world record.

Decathlete Dean Macey, who suffered a slight hamstring strain in yesterday's long jump, recorded a time of 14.56 seconds in the 110m hurdles.

(3,000m steeplechase), Henry Dagmil (long jump), decathlete Jesson Ramil Cid and the 4x400m relay team of Isidro Del Prado Jr., Edgardo Alejan Jr., Julius Nierras and Bagsit, who accounted for the six golds the country won in the 2013 Burma (Myanmar) Games.