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Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 28 January 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | Decathlon: 8351 (Gotzis, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German decathlete. [1]
From Baltmannsweiler, he is a member of SSV Ulm 1846. [2] [3] He was a 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships bronze medalist in the 4x100m relay in 2016 in Bydgoszcz.
He was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist in the decathlon in 2019. He had surgery on his ankle in 2020, and split his training time between Ulm and Leverkusen during 2020. [4]
He won the German Athletics Championships in the decathlon in August 2022, and set a new personal best for the decathlon in Bernhausen. [5] The following month improved it by four points to 8,193 points in Talence. [6]
He finished fourth in the pentathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March 2023. [7] [8] He placed eleventh in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [9]
He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. Competing in the decathlon he finished in seventh place overall with a tally of 8212 points. [10] [11]