BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Ashton Eaton of the United States shattered the decathlon world record and won the gold medal at the world athletics championships here on Saturday.

Eaton bettered his own world mark of 9,039 by six points after finishing third in the last event - 1,500m.

It was the first world record in two world championships and Eaton will get an extra 100,000 dollars bonus on top of his winners check of 60,000 dollars.

Damian Warner took silver with a Canadian record, 350 points behind Eaton. Rico Freimuth of Germany had bronze with 8,561 points.