Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German multi-event athlete. He has competed at multiple major championships for Germany including the

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships (), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre (Budapest), National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. The tourna ...

, and finished fourth in the heptathlon at the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena, Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF Worl ...

Career

From

Baltmannsweiler ''Baltmannsweiler'' is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg. It belongs to the Region Stuttgart. (until 1992 ''Region Mittlerer Neckar'') and the European Metropolitan Region Stuttgart. Geography Geographical locat ...

, he is the oldest of four siblings. He started athletics at the age of dice years-old at TSV Baltmannsweiler, before becoming a member of SSV Ulm 1846 in 2013 where he began to be coached by Christopher Hellmann. He set a new German U18 record in the

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄ ...

in August 2014 in

Bernhausen Wappen Bernhausen

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, breaking the previous record set by Jan Felix Knobel. He was a bronze medalist at the 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 4x100 m relay in July 2016, in

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, Poland, alongside compatriots Roger Gurski, Thomas Barthel and Niels Torben Giese. He was a

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bronze medallist in the decathlon in 2019. He subsequent needed surgery on an ankle injury in 2020, and split his training time between

Ulm Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city. Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...

and

Leverkusen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. The city is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan ...

during rehabilitation. He won the senior

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in the decathlon in August 2022, setting a new personal best of 8189 for the decathlon in

Bernhausen Wappen Bernhausen

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. The following month he improved his personal best by four points to 8,193 points whilst competing in

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. He finished fourth in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

at the

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, Turkey in March 2023. He placed eleventh in the decathlon at the

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, Hungary. He was selected for the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It was the third time Italy staged this sporting event after the inaugural 1934 European Athletics Championships, 1934 edition in T ...

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, Italy, in June 2024. Competing in the decathlon he finished in seventh place overall with a tally of 8212 points.

Personal bests

Information from

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profile unless otherwise noted.

Outdoor

Indoor

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eitel, Manuel 1997 births Living people German decathletes People from Esslingen (district) World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany