Janek Õiglane

Janek Õiglane
Janek Õiglane at the World Championships in Doha 2019
Full name	Janek Õiglane
nation	Estonia
birthday	25th April 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Estonia
size	182 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8371 points
society	Audentese SK
Trainer	Andrei Nazarov
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U23 European Championships bronze Tallinn 2015 Decathlon
last change: April 27, 2020

Janek Õiglane (born April 25, 1994 ) is an Estonian athlete who competes in the decathlon.

Athletic career

Janek Õiglane first took part in national athletics competitions in 2010, at that time in the long jump and javelin throw. A year later he competed with the spear at the U18 World Championships in Lille. He reached 64.70 m with the javelin and ended up in eleventh place in the final. In 2012 he took part in a decathlon for the first time at national championships and was Estonian U20 champion in August. In 2013 he competed in the decathlon at the U20 European Championships in Rieti, where he finished fourth with 7604 points. Two years later he competed in the U23 European Championships in his home country in July . After the two days of competition, he won the bronze medal with a personal best of 7945 points. Also in 2015 he qualified for the World Championships in Beijing. He got 7581 points and finished 19th. In the summer of 2016, Õiglane took 12th place at the European Championships in Amsterdam.

In 2017, the Estonian Armed Forces soldier qualified for the World Championships in London. After all ten disciplines, he improved his performance by more than 200 points to 8371, which to this day (as of 2020) is his personal best. With his good javelin throw alone, he climbed up to fourth place in the penultimate discipline, where he also finished the competition after the final 1,500 meter run. At the end of 2017, he began training under the former Estonian decathlete Andrei Nazarov . He then almost completely missed the 2018 season due to a serious injury. In spring 2019, he first qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, after having overcome the 6000 point mark in the heptathlon. During the competition in Glasgow, however, he injured himself in the pole vault and had to stop the competition. As a result, it took several attempts before he could qualify for the World Championships in Doha. With the victory at the Estonian championships he fulfilled the norm for Doha and started there in October. In the course of two days he set new best performances in a total of three sub-disciplines and ended up in sixth place with 8297 points.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Score / distance
Starts for Estonia
2011	U18 world championships	Lille	11.	Javelin throw (700 g)	68.50 m
	European Youth Olympic Festival	Trabzon	7th	Javelin throw (700 g)	64.70 m
2013	U20 European Championships	Rieti	4th	Decathlon	7604 points
2015	U23 European Championships	Tallinn	3.	Decathlon	7945 points
	World championships	Beijing	19th	Decathlon	7581 points
2016	European championships	Amsterdam	12.	Decathlon	7762 points
2017	World championships	London	4th	Decathlon	8371 points
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow		Heptathlon	DNF
	World championships	Doha	6th	Decathlon	8297 points

Personal best

open air

• 100 meters : 10.94 s, October 2, 2019, Doha
• Long jump : 7.42 m, July 1, 2017, Tallinn
• Shot put : 15.38 m, July 26, 2019, Rakvere
• High jump : 2.05 m, 11 August 2017, London
• 400 m : 49.14 s, October 2, 2019, Doha
• 110 m hurdles : 14.34 s, July 21, 2019, Pärnu
• Discus throw : 44.62 m, July 7, 2016, Amsterdam
• Pole vault : 5.10 m, July 2, 2017, Tallinn
• Javelin throw : 72.46 m, October 3, 2019, Doha
• 1500 m : 4: 34.41 min, August 7, 2016, Rakvere
• Decathlon : 8371 points, August 12, 2017, London

Hall

• 60 m : 7.07 s, February 2, 2019, Tallinn
• Long jump: 7.34 m, February 2, 2019, Tallinn
• Shot put: 15.50 m, 2nd March 2019, Glasgow
• High jump: 2.02 m, February 13, 2016, Tallinn
• 60 m hurdles : 8.13 s, February 3, 2019, Tallinn
• Pole vault: 5.19 m, February 3, 2019, Tallinn
• 1000 m : 2: 44.37 min, February 14, 2016, Tallinn
• Heptathlon : 6085, February 3, 2019, Tallinn

Web links

Commons : Janek Õiglane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Janek Õiglane in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Janek Õiglane in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriella Pieraccini: Janek Õiglane: achieving things the hard way ( English ) November 9, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2020.