Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek and Greece&rsquo;s Sofia Yfantidou both moved up the leader board on the second day of the Multistars meeting in Florence on Saturday (16) to win the decathlon and heptathlon respectively at the second leg of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge.It was redemption of sorts for Wiesiolek, who set a PB of 7727 to finish third in Florence two years ago and then failed to finish the decathlon at last year&rsquo;s edition. This time he triumphed with a PB of 7863 having moved into &ndash; and maintained &ndash; the lead after the first event of the second day.Yfantidou, meanwhile, regained her title from three years ago, winning the heptathlon with a season&rsquo;s best of 5900, aided by a monster throw in the javelin.<h3>Wiesiolek overtakes overnight leader</h3>Simone Cairoli had made history on day one, becoming the first Italian man to hold the overnight lead at the Multistars meeting. But the 24-year-old knew he would face an uphill task to maintain his position on the second day.Wiesiolek duly took the overall lead after the 110m hurdles, after clocking 14.98 to Cairoli&rsquo;s 15.37. Britain&rsquo;s Liam Ramsay also closed the gap on Cairoli after clocking 14.80 in the faster third heat and was within six points of the Italian.A 46.22m throw in the discus, the second-best mark of the day, meant that Wiesiolek extended his lead over his main challengers. Cairoli produced his second personal best of the weekend with 36.75m, but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to hold off Ramsay, who threw 40.95m to move into second place overall.Wiesiolek faltered slightly in the pole vault, managing just 4.45m, 39 centimetres shy of his outright PB. Ramsay, meanwhile, went 20 centimetres higher to reduce the gap between the pair to 97 points.Cairoli consolidated his third-place position with a 4.15m clearance in the pole vault and a PB of 57.04m in the javelin. Out in front, Wiesiolek once again extended his lead over Ramsay, throwing 56.33m to the Briton&rsquo;s 51.05m.Going into the final event, Wiesiolek had a 176-point lead over Ramsay, which translates to roughly 25 seconds in 1500m terms. Ramsay&rsquo;s PB was better than Wiesiolek&rsquo;s, but only by 17 seconds.Ramsay bravely led the 1500m and won in 4:25.37, dragging Cairoli around to a PB of 4:26.36 behind him. But Wiesiolek also held on to set a lifetime best, his 4:35.39 being more than enough to secure the title.It was his fourth PB of the competition &ndash; following the outdoor bests he set in the long jump, shot put and discus &ndash; and brought his winning tally to 7863, adding 136 points to the previous PB he set in the same Luigi Ridolfi Stadium two years ago.&ldquo;I am pleased with my performance,&rdquo; said Wiesiolek, a physical education student from Warsaw. &ldquo;I set five personal bests and performed well in the long jump and the shot put, but the high jump and pole vault were pretty bad.&ldquo;My goal is to achieve the standard for the World Championships and qualify for Beijing,&rdquo; added Wiesiolek, who became the first Polish athlete to win the decathlon at the Multistars meeting. &ldquo;I need to score 8150 points. I will compete in three weeks&rsquo; time at the Polish Championships.&rdquo; Ramsay, who set PBs in the 400m and pole vault, held on for second place with a score of 7752, just 70 points shy of his PB.Cairoli also had plenty to celebrate after adding almost 300 points to his PB to finish third with 7611.Two athletes contesting their first ever senior decathlon, Sweden&rsquo;s Fredrik Samuelsson and Britain&rsquo;s David Hall, finished fourth and fifth with respective scores of 7531 and 7517.<h3>Yfantidou catches Osazuwa</h3>Day-one leader Uhunoma Osazuwa of Nigeria continued leading the heptathlon after finishing second in the long jump with 6.05m to young Belgian Hanne Maudens (6.16m).It meant that Osazuwa extended her lead over Marthe Koala and Katsiaryna Netsviatayeva, but the significant move came further down the leader board. 2012 Multistars winner Sofia Yfantidou leapt a season&rsquo;s best of 6.01m to move from seventh to fourth overall. And her strongest event was yet to come.Yfantidou lived up to expectations in the javelin and produced the best mark of the day with 53.57m. In that one event alone, she scored 357 more points than Osazuwa, who threw 35.03m, and moved into the lead, 52 points ahead of the Nigerian record-holder.Netsviatayeva also made inroads on Osazuwa after throwing 39.09m to maintain her third-place position overall.The Belarusian dominated the 800m, clocking 2:13.35 to win by more than three seconds over her nearest rival. Further down the field, Yfantidou crossed the line in 2:21.56 to finish four seconds ahead of Osazuwa to guarantee she held on to the lead.Yfantidou now joins a select group of seven women who have won the Multistars heptathlon title on more than one occasion.&ldquo;I am happy with the win but I am a bit disappointed with the final score,&rdquo; said Yfantidou, despite producing her best score since the 2012 Olympics. &ldquo;The weather was not good and at the start of the day I had some problems with my stomach. But then I threw more than 53 metres in the javelin.&rdquo;The 30-year-old now intends on competing at the Greek Championships and then the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting in Kladno, where she hopes to qualify for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.Netsviatayeva scored 5806 to finish 12 points ahead of Osazuwa. Slovakia&rsquo;s Lucia Mokrasova was more than 100 points shy of the podium finishers, scoring 5684 to finish fourth, 46 points ahead of Estonia&rsquo;s Mari Klaup.Diego Sampaolo for the IAAF

Poland’s Pawel Wiesiolek and Greece’s Sofia Yfantidou both moved up the leader board on the second day of the Multistars meeting in Florence on Saturday (16) to win the decathlon and heptathlon respectively at the second leg of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

Third time lucky for Wiesiolek in Florence as Yfantidou regains title

Italy&rsquo;s Simone Cairoli and Nigeria&rsquo;s Uhunoma Osazuwa are the surprise overnight leaders at the Multistars Trofeo Zerneri Acciai meeting in Florence, the second leg of the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.In a close decathlon competition, Italian indoor heptathlon champion Cairoli leads by just six points over second-placed Pawel Wiesolek from Poland. It is the first time in the 28-year history of the event that an Italian decathlete has held the lead after the first day.Cairoli&rsquo;s current tally of 4086 is more than 150 points better than his previous best day-one score, but Wiesiolek is generally stronger across the five events on the second day.Britain&rsquo;s Liam Ramsay is currently in third place after five events with 4011, 37 points ahead of compatriot David Hall.The host nation&rsquo;s athletes got off to a strong start in the 100m, which opened the programme on a rainy Friday morning in the Luigi Ridolfi Stadium. Cairoli and Vincenzo Vigliotti clocked the fastest times, both crossing the line in 10.92.The only other athlete able to run faster than 11 seconds was Great Britain&rsquo;s David Hall, who clocked 10.94. Serbia&rsquo;s pre-event favourite Mihail Dudas, the 2013 European indoor bronze medallist, clocked the fourth-fastest time with 11.00.Cairoli was on fire and continued his good form, winning the long jump with 7.40m, just five centimetres shy of his PB. After two events, Cairoli maintained the overall lead ahead of Wiesiolak.While Cairoli smashed his shot put PB, so too did Wiesiolek. Cairoli managed 12.85m, but Wiesiolek went significant farther with his 14.30m, giving him the overall lead after three events.Cairoli then reduced Wiesiolek&rsquo;s lead to just 21 points after clearing 1.98m in the high jump the Pole&rsquo;s 1.95m. And after running more than half a second quicker than Wiesiolek in the 400m &ndash; 49.13 to 49.70 &ndash; Cairoli regained the lead in the final event of the first day.But the star of the 400m was Hall, competing in his first senior decathlon. The 20-year-old clocked a PB of 46.46 to break the oldest Multistars meeting record on the books. The previous mark had belonged to fellow Briton Mark Bishop since 1989, six years before Hall was born.The performance moved Hall up to fourth place behind compatriot Ramsay, who also ran a PB in the 400m with 47.56.Cairoli will have to produce some huge PBs on the second day if he is to maintain his lead. But it looks more likely that Wiesiolek and Ramsay, who are similarly matched on day two, will catch him before the end of the competition.Dudas withdrew from the competition after two events, while recently crowned Oceania champion Brent Newdick did likewise after four events.&ldquo;I had a good feeling coming to Florence,&rdquo; said Cairoli. &ldquo;This competition gives me an indication of what I have to work on to improve. I am happy because I came close to my best performances in all five events and I set a personal best in the shot put.&ldquo;I started with high jump and cross country but I decided to start with decathlon when I was in my second junior year,&rdquo; added Cairoli of his background in the sport. &ldquo;I train nine times a week, but I am not a full-time athlete, so it&rsquo;s hard to combine athletics with my job.&rdquo;<h3>Osazuwa holds off Netsviatayeva</h3>Nigeria&rsquo;s Osazuwa finished the first day of the heptathlon as the overnight leader with 3609, just 69 points ahead of Katsiaryna Netsviatayeva of Belarus. African champion Marthe Koala of Burkina Faso currently sits in third place with 3407.Koala, who trains in Mauritius, took an early lead after winning the 100m hurdles in 13.54, just 0.2 shy of the national record she set last month.Osazuwa followed up her 13.86 in the 100m hurdles with a winning clearance of 1.81m in the high jump to clinch the overall lead after two events ahead of Estonia&rsquo;s Mari Klaup. Last year&rsquo;s Multistars runner-up Netsviatayeva was third after two events, having clocked 14.12 in the 100m hurdles and cleared 1.72m in the high jump.The Belarusian moved up one place after posting the best mark of the day in the shot put with 14.47m, but Osazuwa&rsquo;s throw of 12.51m was just enough to stay in the overall lead by 23 points. Osazuwa then extended her lead in the final event after running half a second quicker than Netsviatayeva, 24.59 to 25.08.The Nigerian will go into the second day with a 69-point lead over her nearest rival, but Netsviatayeva is significantly stronger in the final two events and looks set to challenge for the victory.Koala moved into third place overall after positing the fastest time in the 200m with 24.51, but she will be hard-pushed to maintain that position on the second-day. Slovakia&rsquo;s Lucia Mokrasova, currently 29 points behind Koala in fourth, is strong in the final five events.But the big day-two danger will be former Multistars winner Sofia Yfantidou. The 30-year-old from Greece is currently in seventh, almost 300 points adrift of Osazuwa, but could make up most of that deficit in the javelin; an event in which she has a best of 56.96m.Diego Sampaolo for the IAAF

Italy’s Simone Cairoli and Nigeria’s Uhunoma Osazuwa are the surprise overnight leaders at the Multistars Trofeo Zerneri Acciai meeting in Florence, the second leg of the 2015 IAAF Combined Events Challenge.

Third time lucky for Wiesiolek in Florence as Yfantidou regains title

Cairoli and Osazuwa the day-one leaders in Florence