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USA's Ashton Eaton takes comfortable lead in decathlon at World Championships

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USA's Ashton Easton takes a comfortable lead in the decathlon after the first five events at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

The USA's Ashton Eaton has stormed into a comfortable lead in the decathlon at the World Athletics Championships after five events.

Ashton Eaton celebrates winning his heat of the 400 metres in the men's decathlon athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium in Beijing on August 28, 2015© Getty Images

The Olympic champion started strongly by winning the 100m and long jump, but he faced competition from Damian Warner as the Canadian won the high jump with a season-best 2.04m.

In the final event of the day, Eaton extended his lead to 4,703 points after comfortably winning the 400m race in 45 seconds.

Eaton currently leads by 173 points over Warner with five events left to go.

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