Roman Sebrle stormed to decathlon gold after another dominating performance in Gothenburg.

The Czech star was simply unstoppable as he claimed a second straight European title with a season's best score of 8526 points.

Attila Zsivoczky of Hungary took silver with 8356 while Russia's Aleksey Drozdov finished just six points further back to pip team-mate Aleksandr Pogorelov for bronze.

The Olympic champion, who headed into the final day 160 points clear, extended his lead to 190 after coming overall third in the 110 metre hurdles in 14.27 seconds.

Then the world record holder followed this up with a throw of 45.47 metres in the discus before managing a season's best 5.00m in the pole vault.

Sebrle extended his lead further when he topped the javelin standings with an effort of 66.90m before he slowly limped home in a time of four minutes 46.91 secs to seal the glory.

He had done most of the damage following a blistering first day.

Sebrle rounded off Thursday's work with 49.11 seconds in the 400m while earlier on he reached 2.09m in the high jump and 15.53m in the shot put to consolidate his position.

In the opening event, Sebrle clocked 10.98 secs over 100m to finish tied seventh overall but nailed a leap of 7.72m to haul himself to the top of the leaderboard.

From then he never looked back and will now take some beating at next year's World Championships.

The decathlon was without Britain's Dean Macey, who was forced out of the event at the last-minute because of a groin injury.