1. Leo Neugebauer is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, having placed second at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
10 Facts About Leo Neugebauer
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Leo Neugebauer's mother, Diana, is from Germany, and his father, Terrance, is a football player from Cameroon.
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Leo Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart.
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Leo Neugebauer moved to the University of Texas in the United States on a sport scholarship to initially study mechanical engineering in 2019, but later switched to economics.
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Leo Neugebauer broke the meet record of 8,457 set by Ashton Eaton in 2010 and equalled by Ayden Owens-Delerme in 2022.
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Leo Neugebauer 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.
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Leo Neugebauer took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jurgen Hingsen.
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Leo Neugebauer won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Leo Neugebauer won the decathlon at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships in a new collegiate and national record of 8,961 points.
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At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Leo Neugebauer won the silver medal in the Men's decathlon competition.