 Gletty at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 April 1999 Mirebalais, Haiti | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Decathlon: 8606 (Rome, 2024) Heptathlon: 6230 (Aubiére, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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. [1]
He was crowned French heptathlon champion at the 2023 French indoor championships in Aubière in February 2023. [2] He competed at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon in Istanbul in March 2023 and finished in ninth place overall. [3] [4]
He won the French outdoor Decathlon title in Albi in July 2023. [5] Competing at the Decastar meeting in Talence, Gletty set a new personal best 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 in March 2024, and finished in fifth place overall. [7] [8] Competing in the decathlon he was a bronze medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, with a personal best tally of 8606 points. [9]
He trains in Nice, France, where he is a member of the French national police. [2]
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