Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German decathlete.

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 loc ...

, he is a member of SSV Ulm 1846. He was a 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships bronze medalist in the 4x100m relay in 2016 in

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

. He was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist 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 ...

in 2019. He had surgery on his ankle in 2020, and split his training time between Ulm and Leverkusen during 2020. He won the German Athletics Championships in the decathlon in August 2022, and set a new personal best for the decathlon in

Bernhausen Bernhausen is a former municipality in the Esslingen district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was first recorded in year 1089 as ''Berinhusen''. In 1975 it was merged with the municipalities Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Hartha ...

. The following month improved it by four points to 8,193 points in Talence. He finished fourth in the

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) ( gr, πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of t ...

at the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event has taken place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF World Indo ...

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

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( hu, 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held from 19 August to 27 August 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The city of Budapes ...

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. He was selected for 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 ...

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

References

1997 births Living people German decathletes People from Esslingen (district) World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany {{Germany-decathlon-bio-stub