Thomas Van Der Plaetsen
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Full name | Thomas Van Der Plaetsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 24th December 1990 (age 29) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Ghent , Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 186 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Decathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 8332 points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | YOUR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Michael Van Der Plaetsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: December 31, 2019 |
Thomas Van Der Plaetsen (born December 24, 1990 in Gent ) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in the decathlon . His greatest sporting successes to date include winning the 2016 European Championships and the bronze medal at the 2014 World Indoor Championships .
Athletic career
Thomas Van Der Plaetsen took part in a major international event for the first time in 2009 and won the gold medal at the U20 European Junior Championships . After a less successful year in 2010, he again took part in the European Youth Championships in 2011, this time at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic . At the European Indoor Championships a few months earlier, he had already finished sixth in the heptathlon, which is usual for indoor competitions. At the world championships he came in 13th place with another result of over 8000 points.
In 2012 he did not take part in any international decathlon, but won the gold medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade the following year . In 2015, the student from the University of Ghent repeated this success in Gwangju, China . At the World Championships in 2013 and 2015 , he finished in 15th and 14th place.
He celebrated his first major success among adults by winning the bronze medal at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. At the subsequent European Championships in Zurich he was tenth. His greatest sporting success to date is winning the gold medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , where he set a new record with 8218 points. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the same year, he was able to increase his highest score to 8332 points and took 8th place there.
At the 2017 World Championships in London , Van der Plaetsen had to give up after the fourth discipline, the high jump. Even at the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , he did not take part after the high jump.
At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 2019 , he reached sixth place. In April 2019, Van der Plaetsen started a decathlon in Germiston , which had to be stopped after three very good disciplines due to a power failure. Two months later he finished the first decathlon after two years with 8214 points at the Décastar . With that he finished third and reached the norm for participation in the world championships in Doha . There he reached 8125 points, which meant ninth place in the end.
Health problems
In an unannounced doping control in September 2014, Van Der Plaetsen tested positive for the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin . Van der Plaetsen then sought treatment because he was certain that he had not taken any prohibited substances. During treatment, a testicular cancer was found that was successfully treated.
Major competitions
Starts for Belgium | |||||
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2009 | Junior European Championships | Novi Sad | 1. | Decathlon | 7769 points |
2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris | 6th | Heptathlon | 6020 points |
U23 European Championships | Ostrava | 1. | Decathlon | 8157 points | |
World championships | Daegu | 13. | Decathlon | 8069 points | |
2013 | Universiade | Kazan | 1. | Decathlon | 8164 points |
World championships | Moscow | 15th | Decathlon | 8255 points | |
2014 | Indoor world championships | Sopot | 3. | Heptathlon | 6259 points |
European championships | Zurich | 10. | Decathlon | 8105 points | |
2015 | Universiade | Gwangju | 1. | Decathlon | 7952 points |
World championships | Beijing | 14th | Decathlon | 8035 points | |
2016 | European championships | Amsterdam | 1. | Decathlon | 8218 points |
Olympic games | Rio de Janeiro | 8th. | Decathlon | 8332 points | |
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow | 6th | Heptathlon | 5989 points |
World championships | Doha | 9. | Decathlon | 8125 points |
Personal best
- 100 meters : 11.04 s, May 31, 2014, Götzis
- Long jump : 7.81 m, April 25, 2019, Germiston
- Shot put : 14.28 m, February 14, 2019, Parow
- High jump : 2.17 m, August 27, 2011, Daegu
- 400 m : 48.64 s, July 14, 2011, Ostrava
- 110 m hurdles : 14.39 s, May 21, 2016, Oordegem
- Discus throw : 46.23 m, June 23, 2019, Talence
- Pole vault : 5.45 m, June 23, 2019, Talence
- Javelin throw : 65.31 m, August 11, 2013, Moscow
- 1500 m : 4: 32.52 min, May 29, 2011, Götzis
- Decathlon : 8332 points, August 18, 2016, Rio de Janeiro
Web links
- Thomas Van Der Plaetsen in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Thomas Van Der Plaetsen in the database of European Athletics (English)
- official website of Thomas Van der Plaetsen (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ De elitelijst van de Vlaamse Atletiekliga: 2020. Accessed January 24, 2020 (Dutch).
- ^ Face of the EM: Thomas van der Plaetsen. July 8, 2016, accessed November 21, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Van Der Plaetsen, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent , Belgium |