GOETZIS, Austria — Defending champion Bryan Clay, a 1998 Castle High alum, faltered on the second day to place third in the Hypo Meeting decathlon.

Clay, who amassed 4,593 points on Saturday to take a 65-point lead, finished last in two of yesterday's final five events and wound up with 8,493 points.

Clay started strong, placing second in the 110 hurdles (13.97 seconds), but followed that with a last-place finish in the discus (118 feet, 6 inches), a tie for seventh in the pole vault (15-9), a second in the javelin (226-8) and a last-place finish in the 1,500-meter run (4:51.32).

Andrei Krauchanka held off Olympic champion Roman Sebrle to win. Krauchanka, from Belarus, scored a personal-best 8,617 points.

Sebrle, a five-time winner of the Hypo Meeting, finished second with 8,518.

Olympic champion Carolina Kluft won the heptathlon, edging Lyudmila Blonska by 55 points.

Kluft had 6,681 points to win the heptathlon for a fifth straight time here, equaling the record of Jane Frederick of the U.S.