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Updated at 12:36 p.m., Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Bryan Clay earns Jesse Owens Award as sport's top athlete in 2008

Associated Press

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At left, in an Oct. 14, 2008 file photo, Stephanie Brown Trafton attends the 29th Annual Salute to Women In Sports Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. At right, in an Aug. 22, 2008 file photo, Bryan Clay holds his gold medal aloft after winning the decathlon at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. USA Track & Field has selected Olympic gold medalists Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton for the Jesse Owens Awards as the sport's top American athletes in 2008, Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008.

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INDIANAPOLIS — USA Track & Field has selected Olympic gold medalists Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton for the Jesse Owens Awards as the sport's top American athletes in 2008.

The awards will be presented Dec. 6 in Reno, Nev., as part of the Indianapolis-based USATF's annual meeting.

Clay, a former Kaneohe resident and Castle High alum, was the Olympic champion in the decathlon, posting the two highest scores in the world this year at the Trials and at the Games in Beijing. He also was the world indoor heptathlon champion this year.

Brown Trafton was the first American woman to win the gold medal in the Olympics in the discus since 1932.