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| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 July 2001 Eindhoven, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Decathlon | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Decathlon 8511 (Gotzis, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sven Roosen (born 27 July 2001) is a Dutch decathlete. [1]
In 2021, he finished second at the European U23 Championship in the decathlon, scoring over 8000 points for the first time. [2] [3]
He became Dutch national champion in the decathlon in Apeldoorn in June 2022, [4] and finished in tenth place at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, his debut senior major competition. [5]
In 2023, he finished third at the European U23 Athletics Championships in the decathlon. [6] [7]
He scored a personal best mark of 8511 finishing as runner-up at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis in May 2024, achieving the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8] There he achieved fourth place in a new national record of 8607 points. [9] [10]
He is from Eindhoven. [11] His uncle Marcel Dost participated in the 1996 Olympic Decathlon in Atlanta. [12]
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