Kevin Mayer

He finished last (out of three), with 1652 points after failing to receive a score in the 60m hurdles.

Kevin Mayer (, or, born 10 February 1992) is a French athlete specialising in decathlon and indoor heptathlon.

In 2009, at the age of 17, Mayer won the octathlon gold medal at the World Youth Championships.

Mayer started competing as a junior and he became the world junior champion in decathlon in 2010.

In the following year, he won the decathlon gold medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships.

In 2011, at the European Athletics Junior Championships held in Tallinn, Mayer won the decathlon gold.

Mayer competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 15th.

He started winning medals as a senior in European Championships for heptathlon in 2013 and decathlon in 2014.

He won a silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a new personal best of 6297 points.

At the 2013 European Cup Combined Events he topped the podium and set personal bests in the 100 metres (11.04 sec), long jump (7.63 m), shot put (14.95 m) and the discus throw (44.89 m).

In 2014, at the European Athletics Championships held in Zurich, Mayer achieved a personal best of 8521 points in decathlon, winning him the silver medal.

On 12 August 2015, Mayer announced his withdrawal from the 2015 World Championships because of a hamstring injury sustained in the end of July 2015.

He won his first medal at the Olympics when he came second in decathlon at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

On 6 March 2016, Mayer announced his withdrawal from the 2016 World Indoor Championships because of a heel injury sustained during the hurdles race at the French Indoor Athletics Championships held at the end of February in Aubière.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Mayer earned a silver medal with a new personal best of 8834 points, finishing behind only two-time gold medallist Ashton Eaton, who was the world record holder at the time.

Highlights of his campaign include equalling or improving personal outdoor bests in four events (100 m, shot put, 400 m, pole vault) and performing seasonal bests in three others (long jump, high jump, 1500 m); he was also the best decathlete in two disciplines (the shot put, with 15.76 m and 836 points; and the pole vault, with 5.40 m and 1035 points, sharing first place with Thomas van der Plaetsen) and led the standings at the end of the first day of the competition (i.e. after 5 out of 10 events).

Furthermore, this performance ranks as the sixth-best personal best score in the men's decathlon, and showed a marked improvement in form for Mayer, bettering his former personal best of 8521 points (set during the aforementioned silver medal run at the 2014 European Athletics Championships) by 313 points and the French national record by 260 points.

Mayer's first combined events competition of the year was an indoor track and field triathlon (60m hurdles, shot put, long jump) at the National Indoor Meeting of Paris on 8 February.

He is two-time world champion (in 2017 and 2022), two-time Olympic silver medalist (2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics) and the world record holder in the decathlon since 2018.

He is also a world and three-time European champion in heptathlon.

He became a world decathlon champion in 2017.

At the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade on 4–5 March, Mayer won the gold medal in the men's heptathlon.

He set a new European record of 6479 points, beating the record set by Roman Šebrle in 2004 in Budapest by 41 points.

It was also the second-best score in men's indoor heptathlon, behind Ashton Eaton's world record of 6645 points.

He achieved two new indoor personal bests (in 60m hurdles and pole vault) and established a new European record.

On 15 April, he had his first outdoor competition at a triathlon (200m, high jump, discus throw) in L'Étang-Salé, Réunion.

Mayer won all three events, finishing in first place with 2642 points.

Mayer then took part in the decathlon in his adopted hometown of Montpellier on 13–14 May, and achieved a season best mark in discus and shot put.

He also took part in the French Elite Outdoor Championships in Marseille on 14–15 July, but struggled in the rainy and windy conditions and finished the competition with a few no marks.

At the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, Mayer completed his first decathlon of the year and won his first World Championships gold medal with a world-leading score of 8768 points, ahead of Germans Rico Freimuth (silver, 8564 points) and Kai Kazmirek (bronze, 8488 points).

This was also France's first international gold medal in the decathlon.

Despite not coming first in any specific discipline, Mayer achieved new personal bests in the 100 metres (10.70s, 929 points), 400 metres (48.28s, 897 points), and the 110 metres hurdles (13.75, 1007 points).

A setback in the pole vault – where he cleared his only mark at 5.10m only at the third and last try – 30 cm below his personal record – prevented him from breaking his personal record.

In 2018, he became a world indoor champion in heptathlon, and set a world record in decathlon with 9126 points the same year.

In 2021, he came second again in decathlon at the Tokyo Olympics.

In 2022, he won his second decathlon gold at the World Championships.

In 2018, at the World Indoor Championships held in Birmingham, Mayer won gold in the heptathlon with 6348 points.

In a closely fought contest, Mayer narrowly beat Damian Warner of Canada by five points to win his first world indoor title.

He achieved his indoor personal best in the 60m and long jump.

However, at the European Championships, he failed in the long jump with three fouls and did not finish the decathlon.