Manuel Eitel
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Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German multi-event athlete. He has competed at multiple major championships for Germany including the 2023 World Athletics Championships, and finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German multi-event athlete. He has competed at multiple major championships for Germany including the 2023 World Athletics Championships, and finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Biography
From Baltmannsweiler, he is the oldest of four siblings. He started athletics at the age of dice years-old at TSV Baltmannsweiler, before becoming a member of SSV Ulm 1846 in 2013 where he began to be coached by Christopher Hellmann. He set a new German U18 record in the decathlon in August 2014 in Bernhausen, breaking the previous record set by Jan Felix Knobel. He was a bronze medalist at the 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 4 × 100 m relay in July 2016, in Bydgoszcz, Poland, alongside compatriots Roger Gurski, Thomas Barthel and Niels Torben Giese. He was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist in the decathlon in 2019. He subsequent needed surgery on an ankle injury in 2020, and split his training time between Ulm and Leverkusen during rehabilitation. He won the senior German Athletics Championships in the decathlon in August 2022, setting a new personal best of 8189 for the decathlon in Bernhausen. The following month he improved his personal best by four points to 8,193 points whilst competing in Talence. He finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in March 2023. He placed eleventh in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, in June 2024. Competing in the decathlon he finished in seventh place overall with a tally of 8212 points. Eitel moved his base to England to train with the coach Ashley Bryant. In March 2026, he competed in the heptathlon at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, placing ninth with 5818 points.
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