Adam Sebastian Helcelet

Adam Sebastian Helcelet
Adam Sebastian Helcelet (2017)
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	27th October 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Turnov ,  Czechoslovakia
size	187 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8335 points
society	PSK Olymp Praha, zs
Trainer	Tomáš Dvořák (until 2012)
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships silver Amsterdam 2016 Decathlon  European Indoor Championships bronze Belgrade 2017 Heptathlon  U23 European Championships bronze Tampere 2013 Decathlon
last change: August 10, 2020

Adam Sebastian Helcelet (born October 27, 1991 in Turnov , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech athlete who specializes in the decathlon . His greatest sporting success to date is winning the silver medal at the 2016 European Championships .

Athletic career

Adam Sebastian Helcelet has been participating in international championships since 2009. He competed at the U20 European Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia , and finished eighth after 10 disciplines. A year later he qualified for the U20 World Championships in Moncton , Canada, but had to abandon the competition.

In 2011 he took part in the U23 European Championships in Ostrava . He increased his number of points from the last European Championships by more than 600 points, which earned him fourth place. At the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul , he first appeared in the adult division in international championships. With 5878 points in the heptathlon, he finished fifth. In 2013 he achieved fourth place at the European Indoor Championships , surpassing his performance from last year with more than 200 points. In the open air later in the year he won third place at the U23 European Championships for the first time in precious metal at international championships, including a significant improvement in his personal best to 8252 points.

At the European Championships in 2014 , he reached eleventh place with 7955 points. A year later he was fifth in the heptathlon at the European Indoor Championships and in the summer again eleventh when he competed at the World Championships in Beijing . With a score similar to that of the World Championships, he finished twelfth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro a year later with a personal best. A month before the games, Helcelet also started at the European Championships in Amsterdam. Due to problems with the Achilles tendon, he initially viewed the competition as a training competition in preparation for the Olympic Games. He finally finished the competition itself in Amsterdam with 8157 points as Vice European Champion. In retrospect, Helcelet regards the competition as the highlight of his sporting career so far.

In 2017 he won the bronze medal from the European Indoor Heptathlon Championships for the first time in precious metal at an international adult championship. In the open air in 2017 he also set his current personal best of 8335 points in the decathlon at the all- around meeting in Götzis . With this number of points, he moved up to fifth place on the national best list. In August he came to 8222 points at the World Championships , which he finished eighth. In the two following seasons he could not achieve top results due to various injuries. His greatest sporting goal is to win an Olympic medal.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	score
Starts for the Czech Republic
2009	U20 European Championships	Novi Sad	8th.	Decathlon	7286 points
2010	U20 world championships	Moncton		Decathlon	DNF
2011	U23 European Championships	Ostrava	4th	Decathlon	7966 points
2012	Indoor world championships	Istanbul	5.	Heptathlon	5878 points
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg	4th	Heptathlon	6095 points
	U23 European Championships	Tampere	3.	Decathlon	8252 points
2014	European championships	Zurich	11.	Decathlon	7955 points
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	5.	Heptathlon	6031 points
	World championships	Beijing	11.	Decathlon	8234 points
2016	Indoor world championships	Portland	5.	Heptathlon	6003 points
	European championships	Amsterdam	2.	Decathlon	8157 points
	Olympic Summer Games	Rio de Janeiro	12.	Decathlon	8291 points
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade	3.	Heptathlon	6110 points
	World championships	London	8th.	Decathlon	8222 points

Personal best

• 100 meters : 10.81 s, July 14, 2011, Ostrava
• Long jump : 7.48 m, June 16, 2012, Vyškov
• Shot put : 15.55 m, June 16, 2018, Kladno
• High jump : 2.07 m, September 15, 2012, Talence
• 400 m : 48.66 s, May 28, 2011, Prague
• 110 m hurdles : 14.18 s, May 19, 2012, Prague
• Discus throw : 50.00 m, April 4, 2017, Potchefstroom
• Pole vault : 5.00 m, July 12, 2013, Tampere
• Javelin throw : 71.56 m, 12 August 2017, London
• 1500 m : 4: 34.41 min, August 18, 2016, Rio de Janeiro
• Decathlon : 8335 points, May 28, 2017, Götzis

Life

Helcelet's interest in the decathlon was piqued at a young age. At that time he watched the top performances of his compatriots, together with his father, in front of the television. Already from 1996 he took his first attempts in the athlete. At the age of 16 he moved to Prague , where he trained under the guidance of three-time world champion Tomáš Dvořák until 2012 .

Street names in the cities of Brno and Olomouc are dedicated to the Helcelet family , which is why history is a great passion for them. Helcelet studied modern history and politics. In 2019 he and some friends launched the website decathlonpedia.com, which provides information about the history, the process and the lifestyle around the decathlon. Helcelet had been in a relationship with the former Czech indoor European champion Denisa Rosolová since 2015 , whom he married in 2019. Together they are parents of one daughter.

Web links

• Adam Sebastian Helcelet in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Adam Sebastian Helcelet in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Decathlonpedia website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pieraccini, Gabriella (2020-07-02). Helcelet: the decathlon's international man of history . IAAF. accessed on 2020-08-10.