Pieter Brown

Pieter Brown
Pieter Braun (2015)
Full name	Pieter Brown
nation	Netherlands
birthday	21st January 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Terheijden ,  Netherlands
size	182 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8342 points
society	AV Sprint
Trainer	Vincent de Lange
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships gold Tallinn 2015 Decathlon
last change: January 21, 2020

Pieter Braun (born January 21, 1993 in Terheijden , Province of Noord-Brabant ) is a Dutch decathlete .

Athletic career

Pieter Braun has been competing in international competitions since 2010, although at that time he was not yet specialized in all-round competitions. In 2012 he qualified for the U20 World Championships in Barcelona. There he was 16th with 7055 points. A year later he scored more than 500 points in the older age group at the U23 European Championships than a year earlier at the Junior World Championships, with which he finished 11th.

In the spring of 2015, Braun took part in his first international adult competition at the European Indoor Championships in Prague. With 4832 points, he took eleventh place. In the summer he celebrated his greatest sporting success to date by winning the U23 European Championships in Tallinn. One month later he was able to approximately confirm the number of points of his title win at the World Championships in Beijing, with which he finished twelfth there. He had to give up the decathlon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the first day of competition. Before that, he finished seventh at the European Championships in his native Netherlands.

At the World Championships in London 2017, he stayed below 8,000 points and did not get beyond 16th place. In May of the next season at Götzis' all-rounder meeting, he set his current best of 8342 points. For a few months he took seventh place at the European Championships in Berlin, just like two years earlier. He also achieved this placement at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	score
Starts for the Netherlands
2012	U20 world championships	Barcelona	16.	Decathlon	7055 points
2013	U23 European Championships	Tampere	11.	Decathlon	7540 points
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	12.	Heptathlon	6832 points
	U23 European Championships	Tampere	1.	Decathlon	8195 points
	World championships	Beijing	12.	Decathlon	8114 points
2016	European championships	Amsterdam	7th	Decathlon	7945 points
	Olympic Summer Games	Rio de Janeiro		Decathlon	DNS
2017	World championships	London	16.	Decathlon	7890 points
2018	European championships	Berlin	7th	Decathlon	8105 points
2019	World championships	Doha	7th	Decathlon	8222 points

Personal best

open air

• 100 meters : 10.97 s, May 30, 2015, Götzis
• Long jump : 7.71 m, May 27, 2017, Götzis
• Shot put : 15.28 m, May 26, 2018, Götzis
• High jump : 2.04 m, August 28, 2015, Beijing
• 400 m : 48.02 s, July 11, 2015, Tallinn
• 110 m hurdles : 14.13 s, July 12, 2015, Tallinn
• Discus throw : 47.33 m, May 10, 2018, Vught
• Pole vault : 5.05 m, June 16, 2016, Amsterdam
• Javelin throw : 64.19 m, May 26, 2019, Götzis
• 1500 m : 4: 24.29 min, May 27, 2018, Götzis
• Decathlon : 8342 points, May 27, 2018, Götzis

Hall

• 60 m : 7.16 s, February 1, 2020, Apeldoorn
• Long jump: 7.54 m, February 7, 2020, Apeldoorn
• Shot put: 15.32 m, February 1, 2020, Apeldoorn
• High jump: 2.02 m, February 1, 2020, Apeldoorn
• 60 m hurdles: 8.08 s, January 30, 2016, Apeldoorn
• Pole vault: 5.04 m, February 14, 2016, Apeldoorn
• 1000 m : 2: 40.19 min, January 26, 2014, Sheffield
• Heptathlon : 6072 points, February 8, 2020, Apeldoorn

Web links

• Pieter Braun in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Pieter Braun in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Pieter Braun in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )