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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 January 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Decathlon, Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Decathlon: 8,351 (2023) Heptathlon: 6,047 (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German multi-event athlete. He has competed at multiple major championships for Germany including the 2023 World Athletics Championships, and finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
From Baltmannsweiler, he is the oldest of four siblings. He started athletics at the age of dice years-old at TSV Baltmannsweiler, before becoming a member of SSV Ulm 1846 in 2013 where he began to be coached by Christopher Hellmann. He set a new German U18 record in the decathlon in August 2014 in Bernhausen, breaking the previous record set by Jan Felix Knobel. [2] [3] [4]
He was a bronze medalist at the 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 4x100 m relay in July 2016, in Bydgoszcz, Poland, alongside compatriots Roger Gurski, Thomas Barthel and Niels Torben Giese. [5] He was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist in the decathlon in 2019. He subsequent needed surgery on an ankle injury in 2020, and split his training time between Ulm and Leverkusen during rehabilitation. [6]
He won the senior German Athletics Championships in the decathlon in August 2022, setting a new personal best of 8189 for the decathlon in Bernhausen. [7] The following month he improved his personal best by four points to 8,193 points whilst competing in Talence. [8]
He finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in March 2023. [9] [10] He placed eleventh in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. [11]
He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, in June 2024. Competing in the decathlon he finished in seventh place overall with a tally of 8212 points. [12] [13]
Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
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| Decathlon | — | Götzis | 27–28 May 2023 | 8,351 points |
| 100 meters | 10.31 (+1.6 m/s) | Mannheim | 25 June 2016 | 1,021 points |
| Long jump | 7.61 m (24 ft 11+1⁄2 in) (+0.6 m/s) | Ulm | 20 May 2017 | 961 points |
| Shot put | 15.28 m (50 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | Götzis | 27 May 2023 | 807 points |
| High jump | 2.00 m (6 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Götzis | 25 May 2019 | 803 points |
| 400 meters | 48.06 | Braunschweig | 29 June 2024 | 906 points |
| 110 meters hurdles | 14.26 (-0.9 m/s) | Marburg | 13 August 2023 | 941 points |
| Discus throw | 45.67 m (149 ft 10 in) | Filderstadt | 28 August 2022 | 781 points |
| Pole vault | 5.00 m (16 ft 4+3⁄4 in) | Rome | 11 June 2024 | 910 points |
| Javelin throw | 63.68 m (208 ft 11 in) | Talence | 24 September 2023 | 793 points |
| 1500 meters | 4:33.70 | Budapest | 26 August 2023 | 720 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 8,653 points | |||
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heptathlon | — | Istanbul | 4–5 March 2023 | 6,047 points |
| 60 meters | 6.80 | Aubière | 13 January 2018 | 955 points |
| Long jump | 7.53 m (24 ft 8+1⁄4 in) | Tallinn | 13 February 2016 | 942 points |
| Shot put | 14.76 m (48 ft 5 in) | Tallinn | 2 February 2019 | 775 points |
| High jump | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | Istanbul | 4 March 2023 | 813 points |
| 60 meters hurdles | 8.09 | Tallinn | 3 February 2019 | 959 points |
| Pole vault | 4.86 m (15 ft 11+1⁄4 in) | Aubière | 14 January 2018 | 868 points |
| 1000 meters | 2:44.45 | Istanbul | 5 March 2023 | 823 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 6,137 points | |||
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