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Kevin Mayer, born in Argenteuil on 10 February 1992, is a French athletics competitor specialising in the decathlon and heptathlon. He began competing in 2005 and took part in the men's decathlon at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, the heptathlon at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, and the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He won the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, and the 2022 World Athletics Championships, and holds the decathlon world record progression with a personal best of 9,126. He received the European Athlete of the Year Trophy.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1992-02-10 ) 10 February 1992 (age 34) , Argenteuil , France
- Height
- 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 82 kg (181 lb)
- Country
- France
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- Decathlon , heptathlon
- Club
- EA Rhône Vercors 26-07
- Coached by
- Bertrand Valcin
- Personal bests
- Decathlon: 9126 ( WR ) , Heptathlon: 6479 ( AR )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- France Athletics
- Position
- Heptathlete
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kevin
- Family name
- Mayer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Argenteuil
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's decathlon
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 82
- Image
- Marathon Toulouse Kevin Mayer II.jpg
- Height
- 185
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- Commons category
- Kévin Mayer
- date of birth
- 1992-02-10
- sports discipline competed in
- heptathlon
- social media followers
- 202427
- personal best
- 9126
- competition won
- 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics
- name in native language
- Kevin Mayer
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Kevin Mayer ( French: [kevin majɛʁ], [mejɛʁ] or [majœr], born 10 February 1992) is a French athlete specialising in decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He is two-time world champion (in 2017 and 2022), two-time Olympic silver medalist (2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics) and the world record holder in the decathlon since 2018. He is also a world and three-time European champion in heptathlon.
Mayer started competing as a junior and he became the world junior champion in decathlon in 2010. He started winning medals as a senior in European Championships for heptathlon in 2013 and decathlon in 2014. He won his first medal at the Olympics when he came second in decathlon at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He became a world decathlon champion in 2017. In 2018, he became a world indoor champion in heptathlon, and set a world record in decathlon with 9126 points the same year. In 2021, he came second again in decathlon at the Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, he won his second decathlon gold at the World Championships.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kevin Mayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.