![]() Gletty at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||
Born | Mirebalais, Haiti | 2 April 1999||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Decathlon: 8,606 (Rome, 2024) Heptathlon: 6,230 (Aubiére, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Makenson Gletty (born 2 April 1999 in Mirebalais, Haiti) is a French track and field athlete. He is a national champion in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He was a bronze medalist in the decathlon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships. [1]
He was crowned French heptathlon champion at the 2023 French Indoor Athletics Championships in Aubière in February 2023, scoring a tally of 6090 points. [2] He competed at the 2023 European Indoor Athletics Championships in the indoor heptathlon in Istanbul, Turkey, in March 2023, and finished in ninth place overall with 5133 points. [3] [4]
He won the French outdoor national championships decathlon title in Albi, in July 2023 with 8279 points. [5] Competing at the Decastar meeting in Talence, Gletty set a new personal best of 8443 points to win the decathlon at the final World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event of the season on 24 September 2023. [6]
He was selected to compete in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in March 2024, and finished in fifth place overall with 6187 points. [7] [8] Competing in the decathlon he was a bronze medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024, [9] with a personal best tally of 8606 points. [10]
He competed in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, finishing in twelfth place overall, having gained 8309 points. [11]
Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
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Decathlon | 8,606 points | Rome | June 11, 2024 | 8,606 points |
100 metres | 10.55 (+0.4 m/s) | Rome | June 10, 2024 | 963 points |
Long jump | 7.59 m (24 ft 10+3⁄4 in) (-1.2 m/s) | Rome | June 10, 2024 | 957 points |
Shot put | 16.46 m (54 ft 0 in) | Talence | September 23, 2023 | 880 points |
High jump | 2.05 m (6 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Montpellier | May 11, 2019 | 850 points |
400 metres | 47.48 | Saint-Denis | August 2, 2024 | 934 points |
110 metres hurdles | 13.88 (+0.7 m/s) | Rome | June 11, 2024 | 990 points |
Discus throw | 46.47 m (152 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Grand Lyon | September 6, 2020 | 797 points |
Pole vault | 5.07 m (16 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Talence | September 24, 2023 | 932 points |
Javelin throw | 61.64 m (202 ft 2+3⁄4 in) | Saint-Paul | December 19, 2020 | 763 points |
1500 metres | 4:27.46 | Talence | September 24, 2023 | 761 points |
Virtual Best Performance | 8,827 points |
Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
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Heptathlon | 6,230 points | Aubière | January 28, 2024 | 6,230 points |
60 metres | 6.89 | Aubière | January 28, 2023 | 922 points |
Long jump | 7.33 m (24 ft 1⁄2 in) | Aubière | January 27, 2024 | 893 points |
Shot put | 16.95 m (55 ft 7+1⁄4 in) | Glasgow | March 2, 2024 | 910 points |
High jump | 1.98 m (6 ft 5+3⁄4 in) | Lyon | February 3, 2018 | 785 points |
60 metres hurdles | 7.79 | Miramas | February 18, 2024 | 1,035 points |
Pole vault | 5.01 m (16 ft 5 in) | Aubière | January 28, 2024 | 913 points |
1000 metres | 2:37.57 | Aubière | February 19, 2023 | 901 points |
Virtual Best Performance | 6,359 points |
A native of Haiti, he moved to France at the age of seven years-old. He completed a sports studies program in Montpellier. He trains in Nice, France, where he became a member of the French National Police in January 2023. [2] [12]