Romain Barras (born 1 August 1980 in

Calais Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...

Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

) is a French

decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten 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 ἄθ ...

. At the Universiade he finished fifth in

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and first in

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, the latter in a personal-best score of 8,196 points. He represented France at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

and came in thirteenth place overall in the decathlon. He became the regional champion at the

2005 Mediterranean Games The XVth Mediterranean Games Almería 2005 (XV Juegos del Mediterráneo 2005 in Spanish), commonly known as the 2005 Mediterranean Games, were the 15th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Almería, Spain over 10 days, from 24 June to 3 Ju ...

. He improved his personal best to 8,298 points for third place at the 2007

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. He finished fifth in the decathlon at the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

and was twelfth at the

2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...

. Barras set a personal best of 8,313 points to win at the 2010

European Cup Combined Events The European Combined Events Team Championships is an annual track and field competition for European combined track and field events specialists, with contests in men's decathlon event and women's heptathlon. It is organised by European Athletics. ...

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, Estonia. On 29 July 2010, Barras won the decathlon gold medal at the 2010 European Championships in

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with a score of 8,453. He took part in the 2010

Décastar Décastar (stylised ''DECASTAR'') is an annual athletics competition that takes place in Talence, in the department of the Gironde in France. Organised by World Athletics, it is one of the athletics meetings that make up the World Athletics Chal ...

meeting in September and finished third with 8,180 points. Following the end of his competitive career, he focused on coaching and was a professor of sports and physical education.Romain Barras : « S'entraîner dans ces conditions-là, c'est un rêve »
''Le Equipe'' (2018-03-02). Retrieved 2018-05-24.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barras, Romain 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Calais French decathletes Olympic decathletes Olympic athletes of France Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships athletes for France European Athletics Championships medalists Academics of physical education and sport Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Universiade gold medalists for France Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade