Makenson Gletty (born 2 April 1999 in
Mirebalais,
Haiti
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) is a French track and field athlete. He is a national champion in the
decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...
and
indoor heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...
.
Career
He was crowned French heptathlon champion at the 2023 French indoor championships in
Aubière
Aubière (; Auvergnat: ''Aubèira'') is a commune located in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeast France. As of 2017 its population was 10,061.
The town is home to the Cézeaux campus of the University of ...
in February 2023.
He competed at the
in
Istanbul in March 2023 and finished in ninth place overall.
He won the French outdoor Decathlon title in
Albi in July 2023. Competing at the Decastar meeting in
Talence, Gletty set a new personal best to win the decathlon at the final World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event of the season on 24 September 2023.
He was selected to compete in the heptathlon at the
2024 World Athletics Championships in
Glasgow in March 2024, and finished in fifth place overall. Competing in the decathlon he was a bronze medalist at the
2024 European Athletics Championships
The 26th European Athletics Championships will be held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.
It will be the third time Italy has staged this sporting the event after the inaugural 1934 edition in Turin, for men only, and t ...
in Rome in June 2024, with a personal best tally of
8606 points.
Personal life
He trains in
Nice, France
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
, where he is a member of the French national police.
References
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1999 births
Living people
French decathletes
People from Centre (department)
French people of Haitian descent
21st-century French sportsmen
Haitian emigrants to France
Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics