 Neugebauer at WCH 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | German |
| Born | 19 June 2000 Görlitz, Germany |
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Decathlon |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests |
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Leo Neugebauer (born 19 June 2000) is a German multi-event track and field athlete. He is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon. [1]
His father is a soccer player from Cameroon. [2] From Swabia, Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart, in his homeland. [3] He moved to the University of Texas to study economics in 2019. [4]
Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Neugebauer finished tenth overall in the Men's decathlon. [5]
Competing in the NCAA Championships, for the University of Texas in June 2023, Neugebauer set a new collegiate record for the decathlon, with a points tally of 8836 points that placed him in the top-10 of all time. The previous collegiate record of 8720 was set by Kyle Garland in 2022. Neugebauer a tally also broke the meet record of 8457 set by Ashton Eaton in 2010 and equalled by Ayden Owens-Delerme in 2022. [6] He earned personal bests in seven of the ten events, and his tally would have been enough to triumph at the previous years’ World Athletics Championships. [7] Neugebauer also took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jürgen Hingsen. [8]
He won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. [9] His tally of 6347 points added more than 50 points to a German national record that had stood for 22 years. [10]
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα and ἄθλος. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not by the position achieved. The decathlon is contested mainly by male athletes, while female athletes typically compete in the heptathlon.
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά and ἄθλος. A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.
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Damian David George Warner is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and a four-time World medallist. Warner also won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the 2014 Commonwealth champion and the two-time and reigning Pan American champion from the 2015 and 2019 Games. Warner holds the Pan Am Games record and the Canadian record for the decathlon and the fourth-highest decathlon score in history. Warner also holds the Olympic Games Record for the Decathlon at 9018 points. Competing in the heptathlon, he is the 2022 World Indoor champion.
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