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| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 July 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Decathlon: 7850 (Götzis, 2024) Heptathlon 6025 (Apeldoorn, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Sven Jansons (born 19 July 2001) is a Dutch track and field athlete. He is a national champion in long jump and indoor heptathlon. [1]
From 2018 he trained full-time at the Papendal National Sports Center. [2] That year, he won bronze at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in the boys decathlon. [3]
Jansons finished ninth in the at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships. He competed at the 2021 European U23 Athletics Championships in Tallinn. [4] He won the long jump at the 2021 Dutch Athletics Championships in Breda. [5]
He was selected for the European U23 Athletics Championships in Espoo in July 2023. [6] However, he could not participate due to injury. [7]
At the Dutch national championships in Apeldoorn in February 2024 he set a new personal best for the indoor heptathlon with a score of 6025 points. This placed him fifth in the Dutch all-time rankings. [8] He was selected to compete in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Championships in Glasgow in March 2024 in which he finished seventh overall. [9] [10] In Götzis (May 2024) he set a new personal best for decathlon with a tally of 7850 points. [11]
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