2016 Olympic silver medalist Kévin Mayer assumed the top spot winning the 2017 World Championships.

In the long jump, Kazmirek boomed a 7.68 m (25 ft 2+1⁄4 in) personal best to offset one of the poorer 60 metre times to move into a tight group fighting for third place.

At the top of the leader board, Mayer had another personal best of 7.55m in the long jump to pull within two points of Warner.

As the last event of the first day, Mayer and Warner topped out at 2.02 m, with Kazmirek gaining a little ground with a 2.05 m. At that height, Maicel Uibo had barely warmed up.

Warner began the second day with a 7.67 60 metres hurdles, 0.16 s better than Mayer and enough to pull him back to four points behind.

Again on the vertical jump, Uibo excelled clearing a personal best of 5.30 m (17 ft 4+1⁄2 in), which was matched by Eelco Sintnicolaas who was still in sixth place, behind Zachery Ziemek.