Personal information | |
---|---|
Nationality | German |
Born | Görlitz, Germany | 19 June 2000
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Decathlon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
Indoors
|
Leo Neugebauer (born 19 June 2000) is a German multi-event track and field athlete. He is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon. [1]
His father is a soccer player from Cameroon. [2] From Swabia, Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart, in his homeland. [3] He moved to the University of Texas to study economics in 2019. [4]
Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Neugebauer finished tenth overall in the Men's decathlon. [5]
Competing in the NCAA Championships, for the University of Texas in June 2023, Neugebauer set a new collegiate record for the decathlon, with a points tally of 8836 points that placed him in the top-10 of all time. The previous collegiate record of 8720 was set by Kyle Garland in 2022. Neugebauer a tally also broke the meet record of 8457 set by Ashton Eaton in 2010 and equalled by Ayden Owens-Delerme in 2022. [6] He earned personal bests in seven of the ten events, and his tally would have been enough to triumph at the previous years’ World Athletics Championships. [7] Neugebauer also took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jürgen Hingsen. [8]
He won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. [9] His tally of 6347 points added more than 50 points to a German national record that had stood for 22 years. [10]
Personal information | |
---|---|
Nationality | German |
Born | Görlitz, Germany | 19 June 2000
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Decathlon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
Indoors
|
Leo Neugebauer (born 19 June 2000) is a German multi-event track and field athlete. He is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon. [1]
His father is a soccer player from Cameroon. [2] From Swabia, Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart, in his homeland. [3] He moved to the University of Texas to study economics in 2019. [4]
Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Neugebauer finished tenth overall in the Men's decathlon. [5]
Competing in the NCAA Championships, for the University of Texas in June 2023, Neugebauer set a new collegiate record for the decathlon, with a points tally of 8836 points that placed him in the top-10 of all time. The previous collegiate record of 8720 was set by Kyle Garland in 2022. Neugebauer a tally also broke the meet record of 8457 set by Ashton Eaton in 2010 and equalled by Ayden Owens-Delerme in 2022. [6] He earned personal bests in seven of the ten events, and his tally would have been enough to triumph at the previous years’ World Athletics Championships. [7] Neugebauer also took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jürgen Hingsen. [8]
He won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. [9] His tally of 6347 points added more than 50 points to a German national record that had stood for 22 years. [10]