Kevin Mayer

Kevin Mayer
Kevin Mayer at the 2018 European Championships
nation	France
birthday	10th February 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Argenteuil , France
size	186 cm
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	9126 points
Trainer	vorm .: Bertrand Valcin
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 Decathlon  World championships gold London 2017 Decathlon  Indoor world championships gold Birmingham 2018 Heptathlon  European championships silver Zurich 2014 Decathlon  European Indoor Championships silver Gothenburg 2013 Heptathlon gold Belgrade 2017 Heptathlon  Junior World Championships gold Moncton 2010 Decathlon  Junior European Championships gold Tallinn 2011 Decathlon  Youth World Championships gold Brixen 2009 Eight fight
last change: June 17, 2020

Kevin Mayer (born February 10, 1992 in Argenteuil ) is a French decathlete . With 9,126 points, he is the world record holder in this discipline.

Athletic career

Mayer was successful as a junior at international all-around championships. At the Youth World Championships in 2009 he won the eight-fight, at the Junior World Championships 2010 the decathlon and at the Junior European Championships 2011 the decathlon.

In 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games in London and reached 15th place. At the European Indoor Championships in March 2013 in Gothenburg, he set a new personal best in the heptathlon with 6297 points and won the silver medal. In June 2013 he won the all-around European Cup in Tallinn.

Mayer in the 110-meter hurdles of the decathlon at the 2017 World Championships

In 2013 he finished fourth at the World Championships in Moscow with a new personal best of 8446 points. A year later he won silver at the European Championships in Zurich , where he rose to 8521 points.

He had to cancel his participation in the 2015 World Championships in Beijing due to an injury.

In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished second behind Ashton Eaton with a personal best and a French national record of 8,834 points. For his medal win, he received the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite on November 30, 2016 .

In 2017 he won the decathlon at the World Championships in London with 8768 points.

In 2018 he traveled to the European Championships in Berlin without having completed a full decathlon during the season. Nonetheless, he was considered a high favorite, having shown himself in good form with new bests over 100 meters and in hurdles, shot put and discus throwing at individual starts and a half decathlon in Ratingen. At the European Championships, however, he failed to make a valid attempt in the long jump - the second discipline after a new 100-meter record of 10.64 s - whereupon he ended the competition prematurely. On September 16, 2018, Mayer set a new world record in Talence, France, with 9126 points (10.55 s / 7.80 m / 16.00 m / 2.05 m / 48.42 s / 13.75 s / 50, 54 m / 5.45 m / 71.90 m / 4: 36.11 min). He improved his previous best performance by 81 points. After the Czech Roman Šebrle (9026 in 2001) and the American Ashton Eaton (9045 in 2015), he is the third decathlete to surpass the 9000 points.

In 2019, Mayer renounced the European Indoor Championships because the decathlon is exhausting and he needs a break. According to his own statements, he doesn't want his body to do more than a decathlon a year. At IAAF Diamond League -Meeting in Paris in August 2019, he joined in a three-way battle and achieved new personal bests in the shot put (17.08 m) and the 110 meter hurdles (13.55 seconds). Acted as the favorite at the World Championships in Doha , Mayer led the decathlon after the seventh discipline, but had to abandon the pole vault competition after an injury sustained in the hurdles.

In 2020, Mayer won the Ultimate Garden Clash on June 7th . In the middle of the year, he left his coach after twelve years.

family

His family comes from Farschviller near Forbach in Lorraine . He has two brothers and a half brother.

Top performances

(As of June 18, 2020)

discipline	power	date	place
100 meters	10.50 s (+ 0.8 m / s)	0Oct 2, 2019	Doha
400 meters	48.26 s	11 Aug 2017	London
1500 meters	4: 18.04 min	0July 1, 2012	Brussels
110 meter hurdles	13.55 s (+ 0.1 m / s)	24 Aug 2019	Paris
high jump	2.09 m	June 30, 2012	Brussels
Pole vault	5.45 m	16 Sep 2018	Talence
Long jump	7.80 m (+ 1.2 m / s)	Sep 15 2018	Talence
Shot put	17.08 m	24 Aug 2019	Paris
Discus throw	52.38 m	17th June 2018	Ratingen
Javelin throw	71.90 m	16 Sep 2018	Talence
Decathlon	9126 points	16 Sep 2018	Talence

Awards

• 2018: France's Sportsman of the Year
• 2018: Europe's athlete of the year

Web links

Commons : Kévin Mayer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kevin Mayer in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On a cloud to the world record sueddeutsche.de, September 17, 2018, accessed on August 30, 2019.
2. ↑ Johnson-Thompson, Mayer and Shkurenev lead Talence entries IAAF, September 11, 2015, accessed August 30, 2019.
3. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 (French). 
4. ↑ IAAF: decathlon 1500m World Championships London 2017. Retrieved on 13 August 2017 . 
5. ↑ EM 2018 - The Big Preview of Men Leichtathletik.de, August 4, 2018, accessed on August 30, 2018.
6. ↑ Mayer breaks decathlon world record. In: Spiegel Online . September 16, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Kevin Mayer renounces the indoor EM. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In: Leichtathletik.de . September 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018. 
8. ↑ Andreas Babst: Athletics World Championships: The decathlete Kevin Mayer is an all-rounder on a mission . In: nzz.ch . October 2, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019.
9. ↑ Antje Windmann: King of the Athletes . In: Der Spiegel , September 28, 2019, No. 40, p. 104.
10. ↑ Defending champion Mayer leaves the decathlon in tears . In: spiegel.de . October 3, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019.
11. ↑ "Ce n'est pas une décision apocalyptique pour ma carrière", juge Kevin Mayer, qui se sépare de son entraîneur historique , Athlétisme, on: francetvinfo.fr, from June 16, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020
12. ^ Vice-champion olympique, Kevin Mayer a des racines à Farschviller . Le Republicain Lorrain. August 21, 2016.
13. ↑ Cinq choses à savoir sur Kevin Mayer . L'Equipe. 19th August 2016.